RE: Why I'm here: a Muslim. My Philosophy in life. What is yours;Muslim?
May 8, 2018 at 10:08 am
(May 7, 2018 at 6:23 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The foreign policy of the west butchered the Middle East, it didn't just kill it. Experts have warned for decades that the constant intervention of the U.S and western governments is creating massive shock wave, look at the immigration crisis: every Arab I know wants to run away from the Middle East, if you are arrested you are dead, the west lied when it promised Iraqies independence and peace.
It all makes sense: we were Ottomans once. We are a defeated nation, and the west was the winner. Why should the general direction of the movement of western secular politics be in the favor of "ex enemies" ? Most of the islamophobia of today is a continuation of what happened in WW1.
WW1?!
Like.... the one that ended in 1918?... one hundred years ago?!!
I know there might have been some domino effect, but the blame of today's actions lies in today's actors.
Everyone is free to act in a way that perpetuates feelings of animosity.... but they are also free to change those feelings and just don't.... just treat everyone around them like fellow human beings.
But of course the rich and powerful will always influence the bottom half of the population so that they perpetuate their leaders' power... why do the difficult thing and convince the more informed and intelligent half of the population, when it's so easy to let the other half keep those pesky intellectuals under wraps and keep you in charge?
Yes, the "west" has meddled with the Middle-East... The US meddles with everything, everywhere... So does China, nowadays... and it seems that Russia has been meddling for a long while, too.
The rest of the world, somehow, copes.
Own your shit.
