noah, a lost cause

Submitted by susan (Italy), Jan 21, 2007 at 09:10

noah I have noticed among all the people who travelled in muslim countries, worked briefly or have muslim as "friends" (and I use the term loosely because you know it already), there are 2 different kinds of people.

1) first group composed by the average joe. Might be educated or not, might be rich or not, possibly a female. They find muslim people backward, harassing (especially western females notice this), they look down on you, they envy you. Not a pleasant experience. They start to ask themselves questions. Not all of them realize the reason why a certain group of people (muslims) behave that way, when other groups of people (hindus, buddists) while being different they simply don't do, but they are on the right path, they do understand that dealing with muslims is NOT like dealing with anybody else.

2) second group composed of people that for social status, education, they believe themselves to be better than the rest, more intelligent, more englighted, more open-mided. They are usually males, wealthy, graduated. If they are richer they don't have to deal with the daily hassle of the average joe, they don't walk around in public transports, fearing for their lives or among the muslim people, they don't have to deal with it, they just meet some random muslim lawyer and believe all muslims are like him. When they go to muslim countries, they are in some club mediterranee where tourists (and their money) are treated like royalty and when they see the stupid things happening in those countries (poligamy, over-breeding, women treated like cattle) they dismiss it as "cultural practices that we westerners don't understand". This dangerous group of people also have a chip on their shoudlers about christianity and the skeletons in the closet of the western civilization. They express it openly because it makes them feel more intelligent, as opposed to the average joe that they call "redneck racist" that possibly didn't study more than high school

This second group is unfortunately the majority, or close to it, and they like to be different from first group, they also have this disease called "red cross nurse syndrome", the pathology that makes them believe we have to cure all the others' disease, including the sick minds of muslims. Because we have to keep our moral higher ground and because poor us, we have to cleanse our past of our atrocities by having others inflicting other atrocities on us.

Michel is part obviously of group n.2, totally dependent on the above diseases.

Our biggest enemy is our own psyche.

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