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Display:
"a Christian army in the middle of the muslim world will never ever help stabilize that country."

Mac G, it has nothing whatsoever to do with a Christian anything in a Muslim anything. It has everything to do with human beings not like being bombed, invaded, having their homes, businesses, cities, families and lives destroyed, being dragged away in the middle of the night to be tortured, having their loved ones killed and maimed and being treated like shit by a violent foreign army. It's about human beings not liking a foreign power trying to take over their country, steal their resources, and force its will on them.

People need to stop looking at this as some kind of exotic Muslim thing, and see it for what it is - an absolutely predictable and 100% normal universal human reaction. Just ask yourself how Americans would react to ANY country, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, or non-of-the-above doing to their country what their country has done to Iraq. It would not be any different, would it? So, why do people attribute it to some kind of "Muslim thing" about Christians instead of understanding that it is, quite simply, what humans do?

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 05:42:28 PM EST
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Because we have the counterexamples of Puerto Rico, the Philippines (now, not then), Japan, Germany, South Korea, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, etc.

Americans think they can occupy and make friends with anyone given enough time.

by BooMan on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 06:11:37 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Those are not valid counterexamples by an stretch of the imagination.

Iraqis do not despise the occupation because it is a "Christian" army (which it isn't anyway). Or do people believe that Iraqi Christians JUST LOOOOOOVE what the Americans have done and are doing in Iraq? If so, they have not talked to many Iraqi Christians obviously.

Please stop trying to turn it into something that is peculiar to Muslims. It is something that is universally human. Human beings don't like being bombed, they don't like having their loved ones killed and maimed, they don't like being treated like shit, especially by intruders, and they don't like having their entire lives and history dismantled, their resources taken by others for the benefit of the intruders, and their future determined by outsiders. If you (plural) were in Iraqis' place you would react exactly as they have. Exactly. Chew on that. Recognize it, and acknowledge it, please.

My god! Even ANIMALS defend their territory and fight back against other animals who invade, harm their shelters, threaten their young, and take their resources. It's not about Iraqis being Muslims or about your army supposedly being Christian.

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 06:45:44 PM EST
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