VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by coldtea on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:51AM (#10581819)

>The conservative advocates of Sharia who execute people for their sexual orientation are executing people who live right now in those countries

Yes. So other countries should not encourage the tolerant co-patriots of those fanatics to adopt their attitudes -- e.g. by showing a plundering, hypocritical and hateful face of western democracies that destabilize the region, arm dangerous fanatics like ISIS and Laden, meddle in their politics, pillage their resources, and while condemning backwards islamism at the same time hi-five equally backwards Saudi regimes.

Because that's what has been happening. All of these countries were much more tolerant and humane 30 and even 50 years ago.

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by mercurial on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:50PM (#10582752)

I'm with you so far, but let's not forget that Pakistan is/was the primary sponsor of the Talibans, and that the Saudis, Bahrain, Iran... all play the game of thrones. It's not an all-western show.

I'm also not really sure that I'd paint 1985-era Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Death-To-America Iran as markedly better than they are now. The region has historically been ruled by despots. Western intervention has occasionally (by design or accident) made things worse, but the West has the same responsibility in the rise to power of noted humanitarian Khomeiny as France's position during the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles.

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:54AM (#10581845)

I'm completely with you there.

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