11-28-2015, 03:38 PM
(11-28-2015, 11:28 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Only 20% of the global Muslim population lives in the Middle East and North Africa. Let's ignore annoying things like facts and pretend like most of them did live in the Middle East and we shut them off. Would we then have to give back everything they preserved from the ancient world while Europe was busy being "uncivilized" in the dark ages? What about all of the scientific, medical, and mathematical advances made during the Islamic Golden Age? Should we just give that back?
"Sorry, we don't need your 'savage' algebra". I know a lot of my students would be happy with that. Less time spent on algebra, more time spent learning how to mow their grass.
Before we isolate them, should we go back and fix all of the problems we caused by drawing borders based on Western needs instead of preserving centuries old tribal and ethnic divisions? After the World Wars, we realized the issues that causes in Europe and sought to create nations based on ethnic identities. We didn't want another "uncivilized" affair like the first World Wars that saw hundreds of millions of Europeans slaughter each other over things like one guy getting shot. Savage...
Maybe we should apologize for promising many in the Middle East that they would have self determination if they helped defeat the empire that controlled them, only to leave them out after the war was over and divide them up as colonies while taking land from Palestinians and giving European Jews a state that they could self govern. How would we react if Iran secretly installed a dictator as our leader?
The reason why radical Muslims care more about religious identity than ethnic identity is because we spent the last 100 years destroying any ability for them to have an ethnic identity. They're modeling their behavior after European nationalism of the late 19th century and Early 20th century.
It took educated Brits and Dutch a couple hundred years to make the greatest nation the world has ever seen..... And they did it by transforming barbaric people to what we know today. You speak of how great the middle was/is.... It's been how long and they still haven't achieved our level of greatness. They still are barbaric with people starving. Whereas our starving people are fat.
Great things have come from that area but they refuse to progress with modern society . Despite the resources available to transform their countries.
