As the title says, this girl has got some big cojones.
As the title says, this girl has got some big cojones.
We prefer guns over knives and stones here in the states so she has a point.
I don't know her situation, I reckon she's safe enough, but it's a brave thing to say in the current climate down there.
Damn straight. Why is she still alive?
No, the Middle East has not always been like this. The root cause for many of todays problems does indeed stem from imperialism, the arbitary borders drawn by Western powers in the Middle East and the USSR's and the US's proxy war in the region. And Arab states not concerned with the refugees? Give me a break, 95% of refugees are located in the neighboring Arab countries, not to mention those located in Gulf countries (which is difficult to calculate since Gulf states haven't signed the Geneve Convention on refugees so those refugees who come here are not listed as refugges) and the hundreds of thousands of dollars sent to help the refugees. She is merely an ignorant bitch. I wonder why anybody should care about the opinions of a random Saudi singer (never even heard of her before) anyway?
Historically, Sunnis and Shias actually used to live quite peacefully. But the divide has been turned more ugly due to those arbitary borders and the World powers playing around in the Middle East.
Yes, she is ignorant because her viewpoint is based on false assumptions.She is not ignorant. She just has a different point of view.
This Exception guy cracks me up. He previously made a thread about how the West doesn't have a monopoly on modernization.
We need someone here defending oppressive regimes and speaking out against free speech and women's rights.
Makes for a good laugh.
No, but the world helped create the conditions for these groups to flourish by putting different groups, which did sometimes already have rivalry, to live under the same government which was also invented by the foreign powers. Just look at ISIS, one of the main causes for their foundation was the Shia governments oppressive policies towards Sunni Muslims, and this is why they are often seen as liberators in the areas they control. Foreign powers helped to politicize the Sunni-Shia conflict.
Then redraw the boundaries.
The British and French drew them up a century ago using a pencil, ruler and a map, those things still exist. Whilst it is lovely that you're still enamoured with our cartography skills, we really wouldn't be that offended if you put some squiggly lines in here and there.
So ISIS is really just like Columbus, Ponce de Leon and other adventuring cartographers?
Well, that's a new spin.
I guess a religious crusade/zealotry could be considered a form cartography, exploration...I mean, we find land new to us,wipe out the indigenous inhabitants, then claim them as our own.
I see your point here, ISIS is just wiping out all people to make a new home.
While you're busy fact checking... get some background on MERMI. They really go out of their way to make make people look bad. Basically a front for Mossad or some other Hasbara operation.
She's right they've been fighting wars over there long before America was around. People are quick to blame America for unrest in the Middle East, but they've been fighting over there for centuries.
And the present is the accumulation of th events which happened in the past. Indeed, Muslims can control their actions. That's why when you go to politically stable countries like the UAE or Qatar, you will see Sunnis and Shias peacefully coexisting. It's really a lot more simpler than "Sunnis and Shias just want to kill each other". It is really a political conflict and religion is just a way to project it.
GCC counrties have taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees and donated money to countries where most refugees settled to.Saudi Arabia, the UAE, etc, have a lot of money. Where is it going? Building a lot of castles for their sheikhs, and trying to out do the west by playing "who can build the tallest building?!".
Yeah, that is not the world. That is the government, and the people being mismanaged, all the while being suppressed by religious dogma.
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