Re "The banal stupidity of thinking your way of life is superior":
Although there are admirable features of Islamic culture (eg, greater respect for the elderly) just ask yourself if you would prefer to live in a Muslim-dominated society rather than a western liberal democracy. No, I didn't think you would. To pretend otherwise is to be a complete hypocrite. And know what? Muslims feel the same way - that's why they are so desperate to emigrate to Europe and escape their own backward societies. The modern world has been built and shaped by the West. Our innovation and creativity show up the Islamic world as the very poor also-ran it is. All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. - Richard Dawkins ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : just like Northern Ireland or Nazis or the Deep South lynching of Blacks or the west lynching and genocide of Natives, the lynching of Mexicans after the takeover of California , the molestations by Priests, the Crusades, there is no superiority or difference of one religion over another.The total deaths and sufferings caused by Christians in the World Wars, the senseless bombing of Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East by Christians which dehumanized and deranged the population and created this enemy. The incitement and financing of the predecessors of ICIS by western intelligence agencies with the thought that this was a good idea to get rid of leaders and regimes seen a obstacles at the time. It is all a complete delusion to think the problem is "out there" and someone else and some else's religion. The problem is you, your desire for wealth , oil specifically it was, at any price, the banal stupidlity of thinking your way of life is superior and to be imposed on others.
