Please, go get a few good unbiased history books and learn what the Colonizing British and the Americans did and have continued to do to "your people" for the last hundred or so years. Learn the history of the resentment anger and frustration of "your people". Don't you owe "your people" that much?
Yes, the majority of true terrorists in the world today are Islamic. It does not follow however, as some on this board have said " Islamic Terrorists is a current that runs through the main stream of many Islamic societies and the Muslims who condemn it appear to be the ones at their societies' fringes". Statistically speaking, the number of Islamic terrorists in this world are few compared to the number of Islamics in the world. The terrorists are the fringe, not the majoirty. I would guess, being generous to your hypothesis, that it's on the order of one in 800,000 considering what a huge percentage of the world is Islamic. Of course right before that statement you said "I'm not saying all Muslims believe this or support this" so it's really kind of hard to tell exactly what it is you believe isn't it?
So no, you did not say all islamics are terrorists. You did say that those islamics who condemn terrorist violence are few and the fringe however. Close though, eh?
Of course what's truly amazing is that I wasn't even talking to you when I made that post about prejudice. Funny though how you thought I was.
quote:Originally posted by Sundreme:
I dont know who you are suggesting learn about middle eastern history, but if you are refering to me, you are barking up the wrong tree. Believe me, I know about middle eastern history. Middle Eastern history is MY history, it is the history of my people and I know it well.
As far as saying all Middle Easterners are terrorists, I know that I for one, did not do that, so if you are suggesting that, you have now gone from arguing an opinion without facts, to out and out mispresenting others words in order to support your baseless arguments.
You were the one that said TRUTH is subjective, i proved you wrong and you try to change the argument. The facts are that the sun rises in the east, just as the facts are that Muslim extemist are responsible for an inordinate amount of terrorism that exists in the world today. Once again, I challenge you to prove me wrong.
Erica
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Born once - Got it right the first time. )O(
[This message has been edited by violet Blue Horse (edited January 26, 2004).]
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