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Originally posted by dangler22@Sep 12 2004, 05:58 PM
"And what is it that you respect about a culture with institutionalized racism, religious intolerance and which treats women broadly as chattel?"
North American Culture does a pretty good job themselves on all the points listed above. What have we done to earn respect from the Muslim culture praytell?
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Interesting
First and foremost you are unlikely to see a theocratic government in the Western Hemisphere.
We went through the process of removing institutional racism.
We went throught the process of removing institutional sexism
Its not a matter of gaining respect from the Muslims any longer, A lot of Muslim leaders have declared America and the West as enemies because in part because of foreign policy mandates. But in a larger part, because of an institutional fear on the part of some Muslim leaders that people if not educated in the evils of western society will not fall into line quite so easily.
Why are these terrorist leaders content not to help thier fellow muslims, not to set up a literacy program in Palestine, not to use Osama Bin Ladin's millions to feed the poor unwashed masses? Why dosen't Arafat use some of his millions to build better housing and sewage. Because its easy to make people angry and resentful if you make them suffer. Its easy to make an ignorant person into a living bomb if your better educated then the average Joe.
Yes America has made some blunders in the middle east, but that was just a catalyst based around poor leadership that now has no way to get themselves out of the fact that they have been moving backwards instead of forewards.