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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
Religions and political philosophies are common scapegoats for ethnic conflict, used by people more interested in glorifying their own blind adherence to some other religion or ideology.
Religions and ideologies are mutable. They fill vaccuums and do so in a shape that fits best. Any religion or ideology can become a reason to kill if there is a real political or material imbalance. And any religion or ideology can be twisted just as easily into a peaceful movement if that is what works best.
To believe that Islam is at the root of the problems in the Middle East is ignorance of the real economic and political issues and conflicts in the area... which could just as easily be served by another religion or ideology.
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Sorry, but I think you have it backwards. Islam eg proscribes the charging of interest for loans, one of the key tenets of capitalism, the sytem that has created wealth for those countries which have adopted it. Saudi arabia has no economic problems, they are as wealthy as croesus, yet they fund islamic terrorism. It's wayyyyyyyy past time that people stop trying to make excuses for islamofascists.