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Capitalism is the Islamic economical system too. What is not Islamic in the American version of capitalism, is the evil side. In other words, throwing wheat productions in the ocean or sponsoring farmers and asking them not produce sothat the prices keep on their high rates, while claiming being deeply touched by pictures of people dying of hunger in Africa. This is what a Muslim wouldnīt do.
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Neither would I. But this is a democracy. And the majority doesnt agree with me.
Democracy is about compromise. You dont always get your way.
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Now, the resistance of Islam to the western cultural invasion (which is not a resistance to capitalism, as I said) has other sides. There are a lot of features in western societies which are uncompatible with Islam, and we could spend a whole year mentioning them, so we will just stop at mentioning their existence.
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Democracy doesnt mean the masses have to accept anything they dont
want to accept.
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An advice : try to take more seriously the arguments of the "terrorists".
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Ah...you mean
legitimize them? Sorry, that will never happen. Negotiation is irrelevant.
By recognizing them as legitimate, it would only encourage their behavior. We are not going to encourage their behavior.
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They may look totally disoriented for u, but if the US took them more seriously, we could have saved a lot of lives today.
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Maybe. But we would lose a lot more in the long term.
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When in 1997 Ben LAden was interviewed by CNN, he said that his goal is not to change NY to an ash tray or to an Islamic capital. He complained of the American military presence in his own land, thing that was considered as a red line by the American administrations, though, it is a very simple, normal and natural request. Freedom is a universal right for evey body, and UBL (and Arabs) are not the only ones asking for the withdrawal of AMerican troops.
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Democracy would be a pre-requisite before any of that would be acceptable. An oligarchy is not acceptable...even an arab oligarchy.
Most Arab leaders are not interested in a true democracy IMO.
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However, refusing by itself is natural right, and every body has the right to choose what is suitable for him.
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Despots have no right to exist.
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So we began to hear more stupid explanations, like the jalousy of American success or American way of life.. Strangely, for a lot of Americans, this jealousy-envy was enough to explain why a hijacker would kill himself!!
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Frustration that America interferes with their "right" to impose their will on other people is enough to explain why a Hijacker would kill himself. They want to be a
part of the oppressive government....not the solution to it.
Why should we care how despots feel?
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For instance, struggle in Iraq against your soldiers is a normal resistance that u may face in every country u invade.
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They do not know the whole story. A free media is still a new thing to them.
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U should learn from your mistakes.
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We did. We learned not to let them develop weapons to attack us with in the first place. That is why we removed Saddam.
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And those persons that u saw being beheaded were so treated (although I donīt agree on this treatement, it is against the Islamic rules, just like the Article shows) because they cooperate with the occupation army.
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You seem to be rationalizing their actions. You seem to be saying that, while you think it is wrong under normal circumstances, that it is ok now because "they cooperate with the occupation army".
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And the fact of having Arabs but non Iraqis fighting in Iraq doesnīt mean that these people are the terrorists u r looking for.
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Prove it.
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I wish now u understand better the Arabic point of view.
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I dont believe you represent the view of all Arabs...probably not even most Arabs. There are a few that disagree with you - Ihttp://messopotamian.blogspot.com/ -