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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
Accyexplorer, if you read your history you will see where all this started.
Very briefly, Osama Bin Laden, who was involved in the Afghan struggle against the USSR offered to protect Saudi Arabia, and the House of Saud, against the expected invasion from Iraq, who in 1990 had invaded Kuwait and had eyes on Saudi. King Fahd refused Bin Ladens offer, instead accepting the Coalition forces and American Troops. Bin Laden took this as an insult to Islam that infidels protect Mecca and Medina, prompting him to and Al Qaeda to start plotting against the 'great satan' resulting in the World Trade Centre bombing in 1993. The rest as they say is history
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So do you believe religion in a man is as dangerous as rabies in a hound?
While the condemning these attacks and desire for revenge (on both sides) is understandable I don't beileve its a solution....it just seems to create more s***e.
I'm not disputing where it started,we all know there's violence on both sides.its just a shame folk can't see that they have more in common than they have differences.
Fact is, its very hard to stop folk setting off a van bomb near government buildings and shooting 69 participants of a summer camp......it's nearly as hard as stopping folk from jumping on a bus/train with bomb strapped to their back.
I think to have any sort of solution to all this we need to address the violence within us and try to create communities where these things are less likely to happen......will that happen? Hmmm (as I say).
What's trying to create said communities mean it practical terms? for me,it means not supporting violence in foreign countries and not being fearful of folk that are different from myself.