When it comes to the inhumane butchery that we have read about today, the killing of Muslim school children, I guess that is just the reflection of different cultural values, and it would be wrong to judge under the enlightenment of cultural relativism as well.
Sorry dude, but I don't agree with you at all. People in Britain can't be so fast and loose with terms like Islamic terrorist, War on Terror etc., like the way one can be over here. There are a lot more Muslims in the general population compared to the USA.
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And yes, thinking that such brutal stuff are part and parcel of Islamic culture is NOT at all the true picture.
I remember talking with you about this earlier, where you made the point that in Islamic countries it's usually the extremist voices that are the most vociferous. Thus one can be forgiven if one has the impression that there's something wrong with the Islamic religion itself.
But the real story most often is that it's just the politicians taking advantage of emotional issues for their personal gain. I know this because I've seen the same thing happening in my country as well, where Muslims comprise upto 20% of the population. A vast majority of them are just regular folks too busy trying to earn their bread, to care about some idiot screaming fatwas.
You might have a hard time believing all this, but that's because you're living somewhere else, half-way across the world. You might find it amusing to know that back home where I live, people have a similar warped impression that all of America is filled with Bible thumpers.
This is because of the perceived bias of the Bush Administration and because most of the news coverage we get is only about the crazy stuff that happens here.
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Date: 2007-07-11 03:32 am (UTC)From:Sorry dude, but I don't agree with you at all. People in Britain can't be so fast and loose with terms like Islamic terrorist, War on Terror etc., like the way one can be over here. There are a lot more Muslims in the general population compared to the USA.
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And yes, thinking that such brutal stuff are part and parcel of Islamic culture is NOT at all the true picture.
I remember talking with you about this earlier, where you made the point that in Islamic countries it's usually the extremist voices that are the most vociferous. Thus one can be forgiven if one has the impression that there's something wrong with the Islamic religion itself.
But the real story most often is that it's just the politicians taking advantage of emotional issues for their personal gain. I know this because I've seen the same thing happening in my country as well, where Muslims comprise upto 20% of the population. A vast majority of them are just regular folks too busy trying to earn their bread, to care about some idiot screaming fatwas.
You might have a hard time believing all this, but that's because you're living somewhere else, half-way across the world. You might find it amusing to know that back home where I live, people have a similar warped impression that all of America is filled with Bible thumpers.
This is because of the perceived bias of the Bush Administration and because most of the news coverage we get is only about the crazy stuff that happens here.