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To: quidnunc

Contrary to the rantings of leftists, it is primarily the Crusades, and not modern capitalism and media portrayals of barely clothed women, that is responsible for the entrenched view across Arab/Islamic lands, that the Christian/Western world is the enemy.


15 posted on 07/01/2005 2:55:27 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Not all the crusades were directed at the ME, and the Mongols and Columbus had a far bigger effect on Islam than the crusades ever dreamed of. If the Moslems are that concerned about the crusades, then they are hopelessly miseducated of history and misdirected.


33 posted on 07/01/2005 3:58:01 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

In my experience in dealing with Arabs, the hate comes from sin, the sin of the leftist hollywood types and of the Jewish controlled Media ala NY Times and ABC.

It can be argued that Arabs invented capitalist business.


60 posted on 07/02/2005 6:54:51 AM PDT by bert ( "Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways t)
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