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DarkSteven -> RE: Free the boobies (4/8/2013 1:19:25 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Esinn
Great point - TY. I 101% misunderstood relevant to this. However, Islamaphobic commentary from him....... Ive seen several posts with similar verbiage about the ME. I just declined to respond, I am shy. I think he should address it though. I am confident he is capable of doing so as well.
I am opposed to governments who do what numerous (not all) Islamic governments do to their own subjects. I've been told that the UAE and Indonesia are Islamic governments that are reasonable.
But look, fella, I'm a Westerner through and through. When the GOP candidates consistently show a lack of empathy for raped women, it's a major issue over here and called a "war on women", and rightly so. When another country will brutally beat a raped woman, it makes me outraged.
I'm aware of no other governments that mistreat their own women as horribly as the worse Islamic ones. If you can provide any examples, please do. Although NK does treat its own citizens pretty horribly...
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ORIGINAL: Esinn
I think the fear some (tens - 100 + million) Americans have of persians/arabs (ISLAM) is very real. If we did some trend scraping on twitter or social net analysis on.... well pick a network. We could prove it. While I do not have a study on the tip of my tongue I bet pew research or other pollsters have this data. Time for sleep now, we can do that tomorrow.
But, that is unnecessary as it is fairly obvious. Possibly not with Mr.Dark, we will have to wait. Generally speaking it is very real. Not fear in a piss your pants way....... But in a "they will do me harm if we do not kill them first, the government does not promote mass surveillance or do X & X. Just because islamaphobia and islamaphobic people are real does not mean it is justifiable.
You have me wrong. I've been friends with numerous Arab-Americans and Iranian-Americans. I have no issue with them, and have picked up a few odd words of Farsi and Arabic. I do have issues with countries that keep publicizing their hope for Israel's destruction, as well as their hopes that they will bring down the US.
Under Reza Pahlavi, Iran was modernizing quickly, and women had rights. I knew a couple of women that came to the US to study engineering and pharmacy, which they intended to use in Iran once their education was over. When Khameini came into power, they as well as thousands of young and promising men and women, decided to stay in the US. Due to that, and to the horrific fatalities suffered by the young men in the Iran-Iraq conflict, Iran lost the flower of their youth, and is run by the leftovers.
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