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I have a horrible feeling that, in 50 years people will be saying something similar about today. "During the rise of <insert power here> anti<blank> was a worl
by Intermernet 7y ago
I have a horrible feeling that, in 50 years people will be saying something similar about today.
"During the rise of <insert power here> anti<blank> was a worldwide phenomenon. Recall that few countries wanted to take in the <blank> refugees. Had <power> not started the war, they might have gotten away with exterminating all the <blank>."
Substitute for whatever you feel most applicable. A frightening number of variables fit.
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- pjc50 7y agoIslamophobia is a worldwide phenomenon. Few countries want to take in refugees from Syria, Libya, or Yemen - and there are a lot of such refugees. There are 3.6 million in Turkey: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria/location/113 https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria/location/113 (for a sense of scale for Americans, that's somewhere between the populations of Ohio and Conneticut)
- luckylion 7y ago> Few countries want to take in refugees from Syria, Libya, or Yemen - and there are a lot of such refugees. And that's about islamophobia? Saudi-Arabia is refusing to help because they hate muslims?
- pjc50 7y agoSaudi Arabia is part of the problem in Yemen, they're a belligerent? The Sunni-Shia conflict is an ancient one that's also a serious problem in the region for muslims, although how much of it is a religious conflict and how much is just a regular Iran-Saudi power struggle is hard to say. Yemen is unfortunate in being both strategically located, having little oil, a huge problem with the drug Qat, and rapidly running out of water.