| Captain Kawaii |
08-31-2013 05:34 PM |
To the OP
About 20 years ago I wanted to know more about Islam and the growing Muslim community around me. I found several mosques in the neighborhood, this was Cambridge, Massachusetts, and called up the preacher I later found out was called Imam. I asked for an appointment to learn more. I settled on a couple places and went and learned.
Avoid the radicals, every religion has them and nobody practicing except radicals likes them. Look for places with a lot of family/community events...and ask questions.
Don't argue, dont debate, just listen and ask questions. Be polite. You will learn a lot of things many on this board want to keep you from knowing. Go home, digest and come up with more questions. And go back. You don't have to become a believer. Just help yourself and your community by gaining understanding.
There are many things in your post below that are just wrong. We (colonial powers) have been murdering Arabs/Hindus/Asians/Africans since long before oil was discovered.
If you want to ask me questions, feel free to PM me. I promise not to play teacher but I will give you some starting points. if you are interested.
My mentor was an American writer and musician who at the age of 80 learned to use, from scratch, a sampler/workstation to compose music for an American school's theatrical production. His first lesson to me was, "Never stop asking 'why'."
There are over 1000 insurgency and or rebel groups in Syria. One of them has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Chemicals provided by Saudi Arabia. No shocker there.
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Originally Posted by ctggls
(Post 19781410)
I think my thread was a little bit misunderstood and it is entirely my fault.
I was not saying the Brits as a nations are pussies but rather the MPs which are lead by God knows what reason , to vote various things like this Syria attack. As I remember the vote was quite close , don't know the exact numbers but it was like 10 votes difference (or less) - some half wanted to go to "war" and the other half did not want.. It was not like 80% said no and only 20% said yes. This why I meant by "pussies" , rather a sign of weakness. I have Brit friends and they really nice guys and not at all pussies.
So , my apologies to those who felt offended by the thread.
Regarding the second part, about the Arabs it seems that somehow they find a way to take their hate and insider conflicts (armed ones) to they outside world like in the EU and US. From my experience with them, these guys are violent no matter where they go. There are a lot of immigrants where I live and the Arab ones are the worst doing all sort of killing and getting into all sort of conflicts.
These guys are fighting now in Syria amongst themselves: some support Al Assad and some don't so they find a way to make a civil war out of it. As most of you can see these conflicts in the Arab world influences the petrol prices (and it usually goes up) and many other things in not such a nice way. This is why, stronger countries, with more armed forces should try and calm down the situation by some sort of armed intervention so things get back to "normal".
Of course it's not a war in the true sense of the meaning but it's like if you see to guys beating each other, don't you call the police or try to break them up? it's kinda the same thing here.
This vote of the GB MPs and the US positions shows a decline in the world's geopolitical order and if things continue like that there will be even more of such conflicts that , in a globalized world, will affect every individual no matter if's in the actual conflict zone or 100000km away...
The Syrian actual regime must be thought a lesson. Today they attack amongst each other with chemical weapons and tomorrow they decided it's time to attack US , GB or Germany because , WTF, nobody will take action...
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