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Originally Posted by DanaC
@ Tril: try to bear in mind most of what we see of the muslim world is the bad stuff. That's what creates urgent situations and commands media attention.
In amongst all that insanity that we see, are ordinary people trying their hardest to live their lives, provide for their children, survive the various crises, and at the same time try and deal with all the ordinary stuff that breaks the best of us at times. There are doctors and nurses, teachers and engineers, bakers and road sweepers and people who rescue abused animals and campaign for things which many might think almost trivial in the face of regional meltdown.
They're just people. Muslims are just people. At various times in western history quite the wrong people have been allowed the full reigns of power and people have died for nothing in mass hysteria or cold, administrative abuse. At the centre, always, are people. Just people. However alien our cultures may seem to each other at times, we all eat, sleep, fuck and worry, raise our babies and cry when our loved ones are taken from us.
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I know, I know.
Shucks.
But still. Like many oppressive regimes, they treat their women like complete and utter shite. Ok, so do a lot of Christians. But, hopefully, HOPEFULLY, Christians are merely raping children whilst Muslims are stoning women for the crime of them being raped. That's a lame attempt at levity that prolly didn't work but I tried.
Ok. I"m not being really fair here, I realize, but I just watched a goofy film one of my FB friends (my best pal from gradeschool) posted and it has inflamed my feelings about them as was intended by said film.
You know what is REALLY weird? This girl was my best bud in gradeschool and now that she's all grown up, she's one of those Apocalypse Babes who posts all kinds of stuff on FB about how the END is coming/near/nearly here/etc. I never woulda guessed her for that.
She DID smoke a boatload of pot in high school i heard...