They are being told that their sole purpose in life is to kill and hate another race of people and to kill themselves and to take as many innocent people with them as they can.
Unless everything drastically changed in the past couple of years that I have not been living in the ME, I can assure you that the situation is not as bad as such reports would have you believe. I am not contesting the authenticity of this particular report or most others, but what I am saying is that it is not correct to assume that the majority of kids in the ME are thus indoctrinated.
For example, there are often reports of hate speeches in mosques here and there, urging Muslims to take up arms and kill "infidels" or some such. A few of these are statistically insignificant when you think of the number of days in a year and the number of times people congregate in a mosque per day, but they are perceived as the general climate of what happens every day in every mosque.
They really believe that great rewards await them in paradise for murder. Very sad.
Yes, the very far gone among them do, regrettably. When faced with these religious fanatics, I have often thought of Darwin's selection process - the stupid die young and hence the gene pool is improved <g> This was of course before the recent turn of events where they have started killing off vast numbers of others along with themselves.
However, this is far from a general picture.
Why don't you use your vast knowledge against this crime instead of something that happened 50 years ago
Lorne - I just talk about the issues that come up. Recently, "something that happened 50 years ago" came up, and we talked about that. (It was very productive, actually, if you followed the conversation).
I do not claim to have any "vast knowledge", by the way. Perhaps a unique perspective on the current divide between the ME and the Western world because of my education and life on and in both cultures, is all.
We can't change the past but maybe the future, maybe.
Hopefully the understanding that comes from such internet forums will help to that end.
I have spoken my mind re my disbelief in the existence of God, pitfalls of religion in general and Islam in particular, etc quite openly while living in the ME as I do here. The fact that I have lived to tell is perhaps a bit of a proof that the general populace is not as fanatically (and murderously) religious in the ME. |
