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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Thanks. It's very interesting.
The strange part to me is why they care about the geo-politics of the middle east. Do you? I don't care at all about what happens in Asia. I'm not sure an Italian or Brazillian born in Canada would care much about Italy or Brazil
I guess I'm an assimilated Canadian. I'm not that religious either.
So I feel Muslims have a lot of pressures in society so maybe that's why they feel it's an uphill battle?
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I would say that there's some form of tribalism in most people. Take for example what happened in Paris. Would there be this sort of outrage in the West had isis done the exact same thing in a non-Western country? The taliban slaughtered kids in a Pakistani school, Al-Shabaab shot up a Kenyan school, heck just one day before isis blew up people in a Beirut market. You didn't see this much coverage/outrage. The same goes for Muslims. Saudi Arabia is bombing the hell out of Yemen with all sorts of civilian casualties, not much outrage from Muslims. And really that is the main problem in the world, most people either consciously or subconsciously feel as though they are part of a team, and any condemnation is dependent on that to some degree.