Living abroad

[(=DK=)Samonuh]

I'm going to be living in Abu Dhabi in a few months and it's going to be amazing. [m'kay] all of you xenophobes.

Damn I didn't catch this earlier. I am so [m'kay] happy to hear you're leaving the U.S. I hope you get caught up in some Arab Spring and they behead your ass.

Wow. "I don't like this guy's views. I hope he gets brutally murdered in the next few months. That would be awesome."

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I'm going to be living in Abu Dhabi in a few months and it's going to be amazing. [m'kay] all of you xenophobes.

Damn I didn't catch this earlier. I am so [m'kay] happy to hear you're leaving the U.S. I hope you get caught up in some Arab Spring and they behead your ass.

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

[(SWGO)SirPepsi]

that was a bad example. Not even during the worse of times of U.S history can you compare it to Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia.

and I mean no respect to any religion or culture, but a big number of people in the middle east believe in those things. It is not a product of modern times and modern regimes. Read Newsweek's article on the Mad Mullah of 1913. That's all i'll say about it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/09/30/it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world.html

of course, there are awesome things about middle eastern culture. But what WD said has some truth to it... it is unstable and dangerous in most of that region.

Truthfully Otto, during the 1800s, when slavery was a relatively popular institution, a few people questioned it and spoke out. These people were often hunted down and killed, or lambasted as "N-Lovers" and shunned. You say many people in the Middle East support atrocities. That's just not true.

There are two primary political theories as to the "refusal" of these people to criticize their gov'ts.

1) In this age of technology, the government can quickly track anyone who casually or publicly makes dissenting remarks or "rebellious" insinuations. These people are then silenced and none is the wiser.
2) These people have been repressed so long and manipulated and lied to by their governments and ours, they do not know what to think. Many people are starving on the streets in Afghanistan. If a Mosque offers to feed you, you accept or die. You go to the Mosque, and a preacher tells you "This is the fault of the West and their lust for oil. They came to our nations and destroyed them." They use twisted facts like the 1980s Soviet invasion of that country and the subsequent US support (Mujah-Hadeen) which we funded and then abandoned. (You may now know it as the Taliban). Then these Mosques tell their congregates to fight the west - and, since they have no lives to live, these people take up the cause.

The reality is the majority of Muslims dissent. They don't approve of heinous acts, but they often aren't AWARE of them (media restrictions) or are told there is/was adequate reasoning to support it.

Think of it like this - our government commits or supports atrocities in all parts of the world. We are now taken aback at the use of chemical weapons in Syria. IN THE 1980s, during the war between Iran and Iraq, we supported Iraq. WE HAD PROOF THAT THE IRAQIS USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE IRANIANS, WHO COMPLAINED TO THE UN - WE DID NOTHING!

Now, these CIA documents have been declassified. We know our gov't chose to ignore human rights violations! Where is the outcry?

[mrjamwin]

I'm going to be living in Abu Dhabi in a few months and it's going to be amazing. [m'kay] all of you xenophobes.

Damn I didn't catch this earlier. I am so [m'kay] happy to hear you're leaving the U.S. I hope you get caught up in some Arab Spring and they behead your ass.

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

That's just my way of saying I love you Samonuh and have a nice trip.