Hi Straffo,
Originally posted by straffo
Why the confusion between muslim and arabs ?
Not all muslim are arabs.
Not all arabs are muslim.
Sigh.
Quite right, and during WW2 not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German, it was wrong for the Allies to go around generalizing and creating a bogeyman of an ideology. We should have followed current practice back then, declared a limited "war on the military" and strictly avoided demonizing an entire nation or National Socialism itself. War on fascism indeed. After all, the Fascists in Spain never attacked us. You can't declare war on an ideology after all, even if that ideology has been aggressively waging war against every other ideology for oh, say 13 centuries.
And we should all wait with baited breath for the flood of Middle Eastern documentaries and talk shows expressing strong condemnation of the Jihadis and admitting that the attacks were entirely planned and carried out by Muslim terrorists and had no credible Israeli/American conspiracy element. And then we can also expect Sharia laws to be eliminated, and Britney Spears to do a concert in Riyadh. Meanwhile while we wait, lets conclude that we are the problem, withdraw entirely from the middle-east and dismantle our admittedly half-baked war on terror thing and trust that they will suddenly be overwhelmed with compassion because we've shown our tender and vulnerable side and call it quits on the whole Jihad, Shahid, and Caliphate thing. It's because we haven't loved them enough or sent enough money their way, probably. I understand that was the problem with the Vikings as well, not enough love and tenderness that and bad potty training experiences.
Anyway, here's the ethnic religious breakdown of the main countries whose media is surveyed in the Memri documentary, it was obviously wrong of me to even superficially Connect Arab and Iranian media with Muslims, after all somewhere in one of those stations a Hindu might have been operating a boom, or a Christian might have been sweeping up the trash.
Saudi Arabia - Arab: 100% Muslim
Egypt - Egyptian/Arab: 90% Muslim
Syria - Arab: 90% Muslim
UAE - Arab: 96% Muslim
Iran - Persian: 98% Muslim
Qatar - Arab: 95% Muslim
Turkey - Turkic: 99.8% Muslim
Bahrain - Arab: 81% Muslim
Straffo, if you do happen to spot any non-Muslims being interviewed in any of the actual clips, please feel free to go ahead and point them out.
- SEAGOON