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I used to watch Al Jazeera and others and listen to people from the Middle East calling everyone in the USA and Western Nations, "Christian Crusaders" "the Crusaders" in reference to Middle East policy/war and so on and kinda laugh and think "wow, what a primitive, shortsighted and wholly inaccurate view of things".
Then I read the idiocy in places like this forum where everyone simply refers to "Muslims", "Islamists" etc maligning well over a billion and a 1/2 people for the actions and behavior of what is an incalculably small % of that group.
It is then, that I usually find myself forced to wonder which side is the most ignorant.
Even funnier, who here has actually read the Qu'ran? Who has the slightest idea what it even contains, what it says, its meaning? Who here has read the other holy books of Islam? I have a copy next to my bed. Read it many times. Read the Old Testament and New Testament many many times. Not because the English Translation of the Qu'ran reads as beautifully as it does in Arabic, or the English Translations of the Bible are overly poetic, but because these books have, more than any other single factor played the largest role in shaping the world around us. They are profound enough in their impact on the world around us that any sensible person, should want to understood them. They are the foundation, the moral codes and the rules by which many (namely, the silent majority) live their lives - whether you think it's silly or not.
These discussions of religion are always driven by ignorance and those who are the most outspoken and most obnoxious are usually, without exception, the most ignorant of the views and beliefs they are making fun of.
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Rochard
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