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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 mor
by 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 agoYou 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 agohasn't the region been consistently violent compared to the rest of the world for the last 2,000 years?
- weberc2 7y agoI'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 agoah, yeah. duh. sorry, haven't contemplated the region much lately.