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Has there, will there ever be peace in the middle east? feels wrong to say middle east... arab world... don't want to box them in by religion either.

salmon30salmon 7y ago
Just to educate, “Arab” isn’t a religion, it is an ethnic group. A majority of Arabs are Muslims, which is the religious designation. The Middle East is no more warlike than the west. Remember is only been a couple generations since World War 2, and sectarian violence has been around within the last two decades in the west.
- weberc2 7y ago
  You don’t refute “the Middle East is a violent place” with “there has been violence in the west in the last 20 years”. Violence is a spectrum, not a binary, and there is a chasm between the Middle East and the West with respect to how violent each place is. We can find non-racist explanations for the violence disparity without forsaking reason.
  - RocketSyntax 7y ago
    hasn't the region been consistently violent compared to the rest of the world for the last 2,000 years?
    - weberc2 7y ago
      I'm not a historian, but I doubt it. My understanding is that the middle east was quite a lot more civilized (for some conventional definition of the term, anyway) than most/all of Europe throughout most of the middle ages. I'm of the impression that the middle east only became appreciably more violent in the last century (oil-related conflicts in the middle east amid rising quality of life all over the world). I'm only speculating though; I'd be interested to hear from someone more knowledgable on the subject.
- bogomipz 7y ago
  "Arab World" is perfectly acceptable. It's understood to mean the 22 Arabic-speaking states from the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.[1] See also the Arab League which represents the Arab World. [1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/arab-countries/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/arab-countries/
- RocketSyntax 7y ago
  ah, yeah. duh. sorry, haven't contemplated the region much lately.

salmon30salmon 7y ago

Just to educate, “Arab” isn’t a religion, it is an ethnic group. A majority of Arabs are Muslims, which is the religious designation. The Middle East is no more warlike than the west. Remember is only been a couple generations since World War 2, and sectarian violence has been around within the last two decades in the west.

weberc2 7y ago
You don’t refute “the Middle East is a violent place” with “there has been violence in the west in the last 20 years”. Violence is a spectrum, not a binary, and there is a chasm between the Middle East and the West with respect to how violent each place is. We can find non-racist explanations for the violence disparity without forsaking reason.
- RocketSyntax 7y ago
  hasn't the region been consistently violent compared to the rest of the world for the last 2,000 years?
  - weberc2 7y ago
    I'm not a historian, but I doubt it. My understanding is that the middle east was quite a lot more civilized (for some conventional definition of the term, anyway) than most/all of Europe throughout most of the middle ages. I'm of the impression that the middle east only became appreciably more violent in the last century (oil-related conflicts in the middle east amid rising quality of life all over the world). I'm only speculating though; I'd be interested to hear from someone more knowledgable on the subject.
bogomipz 7y ago
"Arab World" is perfectly acceptable. It's understood to mean the 22 Arabic-speaking states from the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.[1] See also the Arab League which represents the Arab World. [1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/arab-countries/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/arab-countries/
RocketSyntax 7y ago
ah, yeah. duh. sorry, haven't contemplated the region much lately.