living in the past

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), May 6, 2009 at 22:19

Javed writes:

"Would American want an Afghan solution to its economic crisis? Bridge the cultural gap to understand thier symbolic world to know why are they doing the ultimate act."

You seem to be implying it is America's and by extension the West's fault that terrorists exist in those countries (or anywhere else in the Islamic world).

It doesn't seem to occur to you that those same people happily accept into their symbolic world every other intrusion from the rest of civilisation - mobile phones, electronic goods, plastic explosives, motor cars , cash handouts for the building of schools and infrastructure (which some then go and destroy.)etc etc.

The thing they don't accept, is being made to face the fact that they cannot live in a 7th century tribal mindset which represses freedom for half of its populace - and at the same time expect to live in the modern world with good relations with all of its people. What do you expect of a 'philosophy' that has its adherents perceiving 5 billion people as ignorant infidels?

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