Joe Six Pack

chodadog · 05-12-2004

I don't know what they produce. I'm not really interested, either. I lived in Abu Dhabi for about 8 months many years ago. Everybody was polite to me and my family. We were treated with respect, so long as we respected their beliefs. Obviously, things like blasphemy and coarse language are not appropriate. Granted, the UAE and Saudi are a lot more moderate than some of the other Middle Eastern countries.

I think anti american sentiment even in the moderate countries is widespread. This doesn't mean they hate american people. It means they disagree with soemthing like America's foreign poilcy. It doesn't mean they want to kill americans.

Of course, there are some that do want to kill Americans, and they are killing them. It's a tiny group of people. Islam is the second largest religion on the planet, isn't it? Don't you think that if every muslim wanted to destroy the western world, we'd have already had world war 3 by now, and some?

You're ignorant. You speculate about the beliefs of an entire religion based on the actions of a tiny minority. It's like me saying you hate niggers because the KKK use the bible to justify their hatred. It's like me saying you think it's okay for homosexuals to be slaughtered because some rather extreme christians have that belief.

It's just fucking stupid.

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05-12-2004	#1
chodadog Members Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 372	I don't know what they produce. I'm not really interested, either. I lived in Abu Dhabi for about 8 months many years ago. Everybody was polite to me and my family. We were treated with respect, so long as we respected their beliefs. Obviously, things like blasphemy and coarse language are not appropriate. Granted, the UAE and Saudi are a lot more moderate than some of the other Middle Eastern countries. I think anti american sentiment even in the moderate countries is widespread. This doesn't mean they hate american people. It means they disagree with soemthing like America's foreign poilcy. It doesn't mean they want to kill americans. Of course, there are some that do want to kill Americans, and they are killing them. It's a tiny group of people. Islam is the second largest religion on the planet, isn't it? Don't you think that if every muslim wanted to destroy the western world, we'd have already had world war 3 by now, and some? You're ignorant. You speculate about the beliefs of an entire religion based on the actions of a tiny minority. It's like me saying you hate niggers because the KKK use the bible to justify their hatred. It's like me saying you think it's okay for homosexuals to be slaughtered because some rather extreme christians have that belief. It's just fucking stupid.