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Old 08-28-2004, 09:37 PM   #2
RougeUnderoos
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Painful as it may be to admit, the West simply doesn't care very much about Islam.

That's true.

The West does have a bit of an interest in what is underneath all those Islamic people in the Middle East though.

I'm no scholar on the Middle East (neither is Michael Coren), but I don't think any reasonable person can say that "Westerners" (for lack of a better term) have not had a massive effect on what has happened there in the last couple hundred years.

Sort of a strange point about the Nazis:



It was the British who liberated the Arabs from Turkish rule. They did fairly little to help the region afterwards, but for six years of that time they were fighting the Nazis and their friends in, amongst other areas, Egypt, Libya and Iraq.


The implication seems to be that this fight, in Egypt, Libya and Iraq, between two Western powers, was a good thing for the region. Maybe they'd be better off if, you know, they didn't go over there to have a big war?
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