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Yes, but it is a fact that often Muslims and Arabs suffer from bad media coverage and prejudices.Originally posted by OMAR KHAN:
Originally posted by Angela Poynton:
[b]I don't know how much of this has been televised in the US but here in the UK I have seen our Prime Minister, President Bush and other important figures emphasise that they are now out to attack ALL Arabs, or ALL Muslims, just those who use violence in a vain attempt at making a point.
Originally posted by Angela Poynton:
Unfortunatly there will always be those who are blinded by ignorance, and in the USA, I'm sure those people who carried out the attacks mentioned above will be dealt with according to the law.
Originally posted by OMAR KHAN:
Yes, but it is a fact that often Muslims and Arabs suffer from bad media coverage and prejudices.
Originally posted by OMAR KHAN:
I am also sure. There are more than seven million Muslim in US, many more Arabs and Asians. Nobody will want to create ethnical or religious tensions.
Originally posted by Andy Ceponis:
Whos creating religious tensions here? I must have different channels than you.
Originally posted by OMAR KHAN:
Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
Originally posted by Andy Ceponis:
I didnt understand what you meant in your first post, so now i dont understand what you dont understand about my not understanding. Get it?
Everyday 5,000 people are killed by terrorist attacks? Everyday 4 jumbo jest are deliberatley crashed into civilians? Wow! I am amazed.Originally posted by Human Rights:
Andy,
What I wanted say here is the tragic incidents like WTC are being happen every where in the world.
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The media is reporting on all these incidents which, I assume, is how you found out about them.Originally posted by Human Rights:
Is the media giving proper importance to those things?
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There is a difference between an act of God such as an earthquake or volcano and an act of man such as a terrorist attack.Originally posted by J Ash:
Did you notice, when not less than 50,000 died in a villian earth quake in India last July, I don't think they got (10 times) or even equal to this event - media attention / publicity-wise...
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Originally posted by J Ash:
Did you notice, when not less than 50,000 died in a villian earth quake in India last July, I don't think they got (10 times) or even equal to this event - media attention / publicity-wise...
In other words, butt in to another countries problems. Just what many in these forums say is the cause of hatred toward US. Make up your minds either we get involved or we don't. Which is it. Quit talking out of both sides of your mouths. The fact is most of the world will complain whether we do something or don't. I for 1 am tired of reading about how we should solve all of the worlds problem then 2 posts later the bitching about how we should have stayed out of something. Explain how we could have done anything about Pakistan and India problems and not been involved at the same time. If we had the power to solve all the problems in the world, don't you think there would be a whole lot less of them.
Explain to me how you can possibly compare a natural disaster to an act of terrorism. Noone can do anything about natural disasters. And there isnt much point in trying to hold mother nature responsible.
Your know it all attitude. So you solve all of the worlds problems.
And whether you think you are or not your are showing a no it all attitude.
Any who don't see things your way are labeled. Like you did Cindy.
Perhaps this got more media attention because there just IS more media in the US than most other countries.
What happens in the US does impact the economies of other nations, making it a bigger news event for the non-US media.
In fact the US gets blamed for not helping other countries with terrorism when we try to stay out of it. And then we get blamed for sticking our arrogant opinions on others when stepping in.
But we can't just step in and tell other countries what to do unprovoked. We are NOT the worlds policemen. It was Indias place at that time to tell Pakistan not to give aid to the terrorists.
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But Americans are often perceived as "ignorant and arrogant", and your posts show it yet another time.
You express yourself in such a harsh manner that you make it almost impossible to agree with you.
what is the ultimate mission of your posts? Just hurt them?
Originally posted by xyz1 xyz1:
I have not generalized it on american people.
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
There were other similar posts and if we did not respond, it's not because we agree with them, the opposite, they were blatantly impossible to agree with. If somebody said that 2 x 2 will be 5, there are good chances that others would consider themselves too busy to prove otherwise
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