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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
I'm very deep into Thanksgiving wine and beers... However, this argument happens consistently on CP (or similar arguments). My stance on equality is very similar to Ben Affleck's stance... Everyone paints with a brad brush and it's Bull Crap. How the ideas stop flooding in once I start typing... and they make little sense... (insert your jokes here you basterds!) I was genius man GENIUS as I was watching the discussion...
The panel want the same thing. Peace. They are arguing on how it's going to happen, but until we as a people start saying no to fossil fuels and other high profit BS we are going to find ways to make excuses to kill people, and then more excuses to kill the people who retaliate us from killing their people... When it comes down to it it is our fault as a nation. As a leading country we are a fault for being gluttons. The middle east were very much more western until we went after their oil... People keep peddling the notion that the other people are the bad ones when we and the USA are the biggest consumers of resources in the world.
Done my drunk rant... Sorry if there are spelling mistakes...
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The problems here (Iraq) and in Egypt are not just ones of economics (oil). There are societal issues as well. 3 groups of people being forced to live under one leader by outside forces (Britain and US propping up Hussein). The Kurds hate the Shi'Ite and don't particularly care for the Sunni, or any Arabs for that matter. The Shi'ite hate the Sunni and vice versa, and have for centuries (long story).
A systemic lack of education has created generations upon generations of sheep, unfortunately.
In Egypt, with the advent of the internet and knowledge sharing, you are seeing unrest because the youth are in revolt and the older generations are suppressing them, brutally, if they have to.
Islam is trying to change, I personally believe. I believe the new generations coming (minus those tainted by Jihadism) are going to make Islam a better religion. Change is dirty and its bloody. And that is what we are seeing right now. It doesn't happen overnight, it takes generations.
Oil is just that, it is a combustible that is being thrown in the mix of an already fiery situation. The Kurds are honestly some of the most progressive Muslims I have encountered in my travels.