[quote=Rustico]What if we did not occupy Palestine with the invention and aid of Israel?
What if the Islamic Fundamentalists had not been afraid of our attempt to threaten their way of life or our Dogma that freedom to follow our individual impulses should trump religious ethics?
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Here’s the thing – the Islamic “fundamentalists” as you call them have been at war with the so-called Western world and the rest of the world for the past 2000 years. The Islamic religion divides the world into two parts – the House of Islam and the House of Infidels and it is MANDATED by Islamic law, tradition, and Koran to wage war against the infidels.
Anyone who tells you otherwise either has not read the Koran thoroughly or is deluding themselves.
So in regards to the conflict with Islam, believe me, we would be at war with them even if Israel never existed.
Here are a list of nations that are not “occupying” the middle east and yet are still at war with islam.
India, Sudan and Algeria, Indonesia and Nigeria and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and Uzbekistan and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and Argentina and Kuwait and Ethiopia and East Timor and Tajikistan and the Netherlands and Scotland and Chad and Canada and China and Nepal
and the Maldives.
By the way, many religions, peoples, and cultures have had problems and issues with our values and ways of life, but they have not been threatened by it. You don’t see the war with buddhists, do you?
(waiting for those who say christianity is just as violent as islam – you would be extremely wrong.)
By the way, the United States never created Israel. The British started it. They were the ones who partitioned a part of Israel and a part for the Palestinians. As soon as Israel existed, the Arab nations declared war on it. All the grievances that the Arab world has concocted against Israel has been self-inflicted. The Arab world has created and continues to perpetuate a victim mentality for the Palestinians.
