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To: anotherview

Good approach. Of course, the incitement begins with the media sources, but is followed by top-to-bottom indoctrination in the schools. That would have to cease as well. The obstacle is that Moslems don't like history, don't teach it, don't study it, and condemn history and historians.


20 posted on 01/26/2005 7:56:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Quite the contrary. I can't speak to the whole Muslim world but the Arabs are very conscious of history and most certainly do teach it. They probably put more emphasis on history than most Western countries. The problem when it comes to Israel a/k/a the former British Palestine is that they accept the revisionist history that their leaders prescribe as truth. If you were taught a lie as the truth all through school you probably would too.

The reason President Bush's use of the term Crusader struck such a negative chord in the Arab world is that the Arabs treat the Crusades as recent history. They have a very long world view.

Similarly, they look at the example of the Crusader kingdom in what is now Israel and figure that they can, with time, destroy Israel just as they destroyed the previous European attempt at colonization in "Palestine". What they fail to realize and their revised history doesn't teach is that Jews are native to the area and aren't colonists.


25 posted on 01/26/2005 8:57:56 AM PST by anotherview (Part of the Palestinians' "Zionist enemy" and proud of it.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The obstacle is that Moslems don't like history, don't teach it, don't study it, and condemn history and historians

That's because history is not kind to Islam. From Mohammed's drunken, pirating, pedophylic proclivities to the complete failure of their evil culture to progress in the last 800 years, it has been a religeon and culture of death and slavery.

36 posted on 01/27/2005 6:02:27 AM PST by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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