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    Headless Senior Member Pannonian's Avatar
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    Default Re: Investigators Seek Motive Behind Tennessee Shooting Rampage

    Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
    I don't really agree with the first part of your post but we've already strayed too far from the original topic so I won't comment on that.

    The bottom line - westerners (or Christians if you wish) committed much more violence all over the world and caused much more deaths than Muslims.

    That is an answer to the mantra Frags here (and many other elsewhere) repeat constantly that Islam is an inherently violent religion.
    Right now, at this moment, western Europeanised descendants of the Christian kingdoms produce far more desirable places to live in than the Muslim descendants of the Ottoman empire. To the point where the founder of the direct successor to the Ottoman empire declared that the European civilisation was the only civilisation in the world. Whatever the inherence of the respective religions, I'd far rather live in western Europe than in the former Ottoman empire, and I'd like the former and the latter to have as little to do with each other as possible. I don't care about the moral height or depth of each; I just want to live in my world, while they can go and live in theirs.

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    Default Re: Investigators Seek Motive Behind Tennessee Shooting Rampage

    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
    Right now, at this moment, western Europeanised descendants of the Christian kingdoms produce far more desirable places to live in than the Muslim descendants of the Ottoman empire. To the point where the founder of the direct successor to the Ottoman empire declared that the European civilisation was the only civilisation in the world. Whatever the inherence of the respective religions, I'd far rather live in western Europe than in the former Ottoman empire, and I'd like the former and the latter to have as little to do with each other as possible. I don't care about the moral height or depth of each; I just want to live in my world, while they can go and live in theirs.
    Ottoman Empire from the start was influenced a lot by Greco-Roman legacy so it's not wonder he said that, especially as the new Turkish state was confined to just Anatolia and relieved of the burden of trying to govern Arabic, Persian, Egyptian and Berber areas...

    In the end, that's a fair point you're making, but I believe we can agree that we (western governments to be precise) are not really leaving them alone to live in their world.

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