Remember Terrorism is a MICROSCOPIC problem 3573

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I have no problem there.

So this IS still "politics", like it or not.

Of course it is politics.

There were certainly politics involved in the time of ancient Greece and with clbuttical Rome. I'm sure there will always be politics within societies and between nations.

Most groups have learned to deal with it, get

I'm suggesting that Muslims are not inherently different to me or you or any group you care to name. They are not, as the yanks represented here seem to think inherently evil or even anti-west or anti-Christian ... They generally just want to get on with life.

The political interference I spoke of is handing power to the fundamentalists, they being the opposition to the corrupt political groups that the US and other Western powers insist on supporting to maintain the (trading-oil) status quo.

All true.

How can cultural maturity be achieved when outside influences corrupt the basis of the society?

Nor did I comment on the cartoons.

It just "is". I

Your opinion is worth about the same as mine - so far I'm listening to you and you may be listening to me. I'm sure no-one else is.

I'm guessing the point has very little to do with the cartoons, but is a point that the west doesn't want to hear, let alone address.

I don't imagine validation in the west is on their collective minds.

OK, now explain the vicious circle in our part(s) of the world ;-)

Do get real! The US has been directly involved in incidents in the ME continually since WWII. Britan, Russia, France etc for over a hundred years before that. Only a fool would think the WTC incident was a starting point.

Perhaps

I've put forward several incidents as examples. Surely you don't think you can plantard 30,000 odd innocent civilians and destroy cities worth of homes and businesses and then ignore those incidents as thought they never happened?

with even their own innocent brethren are intentional targets, for

When you plant innocent villagers in a friendly nation, do you think the only people who are affected are the innocent victims?

I have the same sort of situation.

The same is true for the

Of course there is. Trust me, I'm on the outside looking in so I see your world differently.

There

Now you're getting somewhere!

I know the difference - angst can exist aside from violent acts. I would certainly never accuse a yank of civility.

Carry on.

Harmony abounds.

So, I'd say that the US multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, The "harmony" that is missing is missing between the west and Muslims. You yanks are making the mistake of buttuming that means that Muslims lack harmony.

Neither. If you refuse to acknowledge problems you may well be causing others, you only fuel the conflict slowly. You certainly don't deal with it. If you then repress the conflict you fan it.

No, I already said that I consider the cartoons to be a symptom. Muslims want to demonstrate, the cartoons provide a focal point. IMHO.

The purpose is much bigger than a few cartoons.