| Abraham |
02-20-06 04:50 AM |
Re: A New Dark Age Is Dawning
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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
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Originally Posted by Abraham
For much of the influence of this fundamentalism Europeand themselves are to blame. A majority of Europeans have no convictions, no beliefs anymore, no sense of cultural heritage and find it a show of progress to insult or belittle people that hold Christian or traditional values.
Then all of the sudden they are facing a growing group of people with strong religious and cultural values, who find a moral vacuum and are happy to fill it... What has European society to offer to them, or to resist them with, as far as values are concerned?
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True. And as an American, I have put an end to the criticism of my country's (by and large) overt christian furvor, as such cultural sentiment, although extreemly annoying, may well be the US's saving grace after all.
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I admit that in recent weeks and months I started to give some - reluctant :) - credit to that argument. That does not mean I like bush any more than before. I feel like the Romulans in DS9 who unwillingly had to join the alliance against the dominion. :)
With regard to Abraham, I know what he means, but find the formulation misleading, a bit. That's as if one would say it was the Polish's mistake that Hitler attacked them. But like with the Nazis back then, the source of today's dangerous situation is the evil philosophy of that old beduin's criminal mind, not the targetted victim's. It is not the infidel's mistake that they oppose his violent ambitions back then, and today. Our mistake is that we make it too easy for his followers to bring their forces into position. But we did not trigger the aggressiveness of Islam, not did we design it. We had nothing to do with it's creation. And that's why we also have no obligation to accept responsebility for Islam's appearance at all.
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@ Skybird:
You would have been more accurate if you had compared my statement with blaming Britain for being (partly) to blame for the war with Nazi Germany. I could live with that comparison. Britain accepted in Münich '38 a policy of appeasement after all...
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