On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:22:00 -0500, "Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:Iraq has nothing to do with ancient Mesopotamia, other then occupying the
same ground. The Arab Muslims of today that reside in the Middle East are
savages, mainly because of their abominable religion which keeps them in the
Middle Ages.
Whereas our wonderful religion has brought nothing but peace and
harmony, apart form the occasional crusade, the Inquisition, the KKK,
witch-burning and of course murdering abortion doctors because life is
sacred (which always puzzles me a bit). You might want to check the
conditions at the average Nike factory against he dictionary
definition of "feudal" some time as well, to say nothign of the way
many illegals are treated by their employers. The fact is, the South
has never accepted that they lost the Civil War, and over time the
liberal views you claim as representative of Western civilisation are
being eroded in favour of Southern values which are in many ways
indistinguishable from the Muslim values you lambast.
Of course the West has done nothing to antagonise the Muslim world at
all, other than exploit them, bomb them, starve them, insult them and
invade them, and those things hardly count at all.
Quoted message said:However, despite the European civil wars of the past century,
You had a civil war rather more recently than we or the French did, I
think. Our civil war was a bit of a damp squib anyway, settled with a
typically British fudge.
Quoted message said:Western
Civilization is taking over the world and will in fact soon be the
civilization of all mankind on this planet. Isn't it nice to be on the
winning side.
As long civilised is defined to include only those things which agree
with your personal ideology, you will never achieve the hegemony you
seek. Maybe you haven't noticed the extent to which Western
civilisation is influenced by the East these days.
I recently visited the British Museum and saw Persian artefacts of
exquisite beauty from the time of the Dark Ages when our ancestors -
yours and mine - were living in mud huts and dressed in animal skins.
Glass cups as thin as Waterford crystal, fine filligree metalwork, all
sorts. And fantastically illuminated copies of the Qu'ran, but they
must have been fakes, mustn't they, because all Muslims are bestial
and violent according to you.
But there you go. The American dictionary has always defined
compromise as "do it my way, by force if necessary"
Guy
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