Ninjadruid,Jul 13 2005, 07:29 PM Wrote:The first is that the battle is against a culture, not a religion. The Muslim religion is as facticuous as Christianity. The people who are fighting against western civilization are afraid of losing the power they command in their respective communities.
I'm happy there are more people that think about it lik this.
As long as "we" and "them" go on calling this battle of religions, we will never find a solution.
(even Tony Blair said this (in other words) at last weeks G8 summit, it was a long time ago that I heard him say something so sensible)
In this forum I have previously also compared Bush en Bin Laden, in the sense that they are both leaders that crave power and wealth, and they will both do a lot to conserve that power, in their own way of course.
Ninjadruid, this one (in my opinion) one of the wisest posts on the Lounge since quite some time (after Doc's salsa and banana threads of course) :D