Education is key

Submitted by Chuck Horse (United States), Mar 25, 2006 at 16:00

This makes a lot of sense. I agree it would be more effective to show moslims how freedom and tolerance will benefit them rather than try to convince them how everything they believe about history and politics is wrong.

It shortcuts through all the delusional / conspiracy theorist / revisionist history and paranoia of the arab and muslim world. You can't win an argument against someone who is ignorant. Ignorance is like a blind spot, they don't know it's there. It seems like many muslims don't have any idea why it might be bad for them if they kill people who disagree with them and have no thought that there might be benefits to an alternative. They need education, and not just memorizing religious passages.

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