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Thanks for that first hand point of view Frostfire; food for thought.
Human nature likes to generalize..."All Muslims are bad"...it makes life simpler doesn't it.
I was talking to my father about this and he brought up his time in VN.
"Just cos someone was Asian looking didn't mean the guy wanted to kill me or had even thought about killing me"...
"problem with this though is it made life pretty complicated...who's the enemy"...
The guys with grey uniforms are the bad guys and the guys in green are the good guys....right....note to self only shot at the guys in grey...
However I still tend towards the school of thought that Islam's centre of gravity (Koran) tends towards anti-pluralism and it's a very long road till that gravitational pull significantly diminished. But I definitely need to do more reading before I close on that position...
Great thread.
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