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Originally Posted by Fmeh  (...)
Heck, many people, occasionally myself included, go on a rankfest on organized religion in general. Should we have to pussyfoot around Islam? If so, is it because we're afraid we'll offend someone? If that's the case--why aren't we afraid of offending Christians? Is it because we're scared something bad could happen to us? Has it really gotten that bad? |
No, we shouldn't be afraid, and we should criticize Islam where it is necessary, the same way we criticize Christianity.
We as well should criticize China for what they're doing in Tibet, with occupying it, the same way we criticize Spain for still occupying the Basque country or England for still occupying Northern Ireland. (Yes, this is mainly to provoke, and to show again that history is repeating itself. The Tibetans have the luck that they have the world behind them - including myself - now, or at least most of it, the Basque people or the Irish didn't, back then, and now it's too late to change anything there).
I can't come up with solutions for the Islam-problems, and neither for those in Tibet. I wish I could. But you're right, history only repeats itself if we let it, so I guess the next few years will tell if we learned anything from history.