
Originally Posted by
Andrew Chalmers
40 years ago before most of my fellow Americans was even aware that there are people in the middle east who speak Arabic - I learned Allahu Akbar and inshallah from a taxi driver in Cairo.
Later in life, my buddies and I had a tradition of returning annually to the same watering hole, bbq, drink beer, then jump into the watering hole from a cliff - and we would jump in hailing allah akbar! There was no religious intent to it - it was just something silly and fun, and something we had picked up along the way.
And silly and amazing as it might seem to you - yes, there are silly brats who do crazy ****, who happen to be of Muslim heritage and somewhat fluent in Arabic - but it doesn't make it a religious problem. Just like there are sick ****s in our armed forces who rape women and children, watch kiddie ****, slaughter innocents for fun - but it doesn't turn it into a problem with all of us.
If you are constantly wearing yellow lenses - don't blame the world for looking yellow. I find it odd that you're so convinced that Islam and Muslims are the problem - only 15 years ago or 60 years ago, would you say that nationalism is the evil that plagues the world in the Balkans? And vow cultural war against nationalism?
Ridiculous.