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hnthrow_65321
13y ago
I am aware that they are broad comments. Do I really have to qualify each statement with a disclaimer that it does not apply to all Arabs or Muslims? That is obviously true. I don't even know what 'racist' means in this context beyond it be
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hnthrow_65321
13y ago
Seems like a poor explanation given the astronomical wealth quite literally sloshing around in the Middle East, and the fact that all of the 9/11 hijackers were wealthy and educated and that many of the leaders of Al Qaida are western educa
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hnthrow_65321
13y ago
If you're concerned about semantics... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Middle_East And I said, 'Arabs and Muslims'. I am aware that Afghans and Pakistanis are not Arab.
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hnthrow_65321
13y ago
Between this and the Vice story on Afghan child suicide bombers, the notion of peace in the middle east seems like the cruelest and blackest of jokes. Arabs and Muslims will blow the fuck out of each other's sons and daughters without a sec