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Wow ! Talk about racism !
Samuel Huntington's fallacy is that civilizations, which are cultural
phenomena, can be treated as if they were responsible political
entities. They identify the members of Islamic civilization not in
terms of their actions but in terms of what they are.
One can legitimately go to war against Iraq and Iraqis because of
what the Baghdad government does, since Iraq's citizens have to
accept responsibility for their government, even if it is a despotism.
The same can be said about any country. The American people bear an
ultimate responsibility for what their government does even if
citizens individually oppose those actions. However, neither Muslims
nor Americans deserve to die because they are the product of their
civilizations, whether those civilizations are admirable or not. To
think otherwise is totalitarian thinking. It is the equivalent of
racist thinking: the enemy is an enemy not because of what he or she
does but because of what he or she is.
If wars are cultural and religious, they have no solutions. They are
unnegotiable and unresolvable. If the Muslim is an enemy of America
and Europe because he is a Muslim, and Westerners are his mortal
enemies because of who they are, all have lost control over their
futures.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ellie" <ellen_stanwick@xxxx> wrote:
> amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic
> fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose
> people are convinced of the superiority of their culture
> and are obsessed with the inferiority of the
> power."
>
> -- Samuel Huntington
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