Originally posted by lazs2
lada... let me instead ask you this.... is "muslim" a religion or a race or a country or what?
seems whenever there is problems it has to do with people who are "muslims".
perhaps that is the root of the problem... no one likes you? that is why. No one on earth wants your people to have any power over them or to make laws that we have to follow based on your silly religion.
lazs
word muslim is used to describe people who belive in islam.
At least over here.
Here is another interesting diference between media reports.
While russian media report, that Checna is disrupted by muslim terrorist, our media(europian) report, that those who fight in checna are insurgents and separatists.
While BBC describe Iraqi resistence as insurgence since start of the war, i can often read in US media, that US army is fighting muslim extremist in Iraq, aka terrorist.
Associating muslims with extremism is simple and effective way, how to silent their whinning. And its as silly as associate Italy with terrorism because of IRA. But today its somehow fashion to point on religion, rather that on their rational goals, specialy when those people have diferent religion that majority of us. Anyway concept of creating phatoms of hate based on religion is well working concept and nothing new.
Here is nice example how living myths works.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/09/02/kyrgyzbanker.shtmlBtw did you note, when US changed opinion about checnya ? (please note what kind of vocabulary they used )
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/527105.stmWhile it was baad according to Bush troughs to "campaign against separatist Islamist rebels in Chechnya" today... its ok, because poor russia is fighting with evil muslim terrorist, who are organized in extremly dangerous international network, whitch ultimate goal is to erradicate all americans with dirty bombsss. boooom...
Let me explain our experience about sutch things.
The only one diference between freedom fighters, separatists and terrorist is, that freefom fighters, separatists are terrorist who we do support, while terrorist are freedom fighters, separatist who we do not support.
Btw.. did you ever visit some ME`s or NAfrican country ?
Stupid question.... but you should do it, it might change your view about muslims=conflict with terrorist