Aswad
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ORIGINAL: Brain Is there an insane gene that is present in that part of the world? No, too much religion I suppose. Actually, just not enough education wherever you're from. In your own past, people have been tortured far worse, and have drawn some pretty impressive crowds in the process. The day you expect Africa to have the engineering skills and equipment to deal with their own shit without foreign aid, I may lend some credence to the notion that you can reasonably expect the Middle East to suddenly undergo the same changes as the West in a fraction of the time (practically overnight). Until then, you can pretty much shove your comprehension of their culture into one of those holes on the x-ray, and then pull the nail back in over you, or admit you hadn't thought this through for even a fraction of a second more than it took your gut to say "yowza!" If you want prejudice, ignorance, and so forth to go away, or tolerance, understanding and forgiveness to become a worldwide way of life, I suggest you start by cleaning out your own closet, because those skeletons are piled pretty deep, and showing as such. You may not have the benefit of perspective, but you clearly have Internet access, and can choose to remedy that problem. Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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