I'm a muslim, ask me
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- Beeswax4
Good questions, comments and arguments.
As you may have noticed there are already a lot of unsolved problems between muslims. We're not one giant man. If there are 1.6 billion muslims, there are 1.6 billion interpretations and practices of islam. So many sects, divisions, this and that. Most of them lives in harmony but some of them causes big trouble.
Just like west who have started two world wars and now in a temporary age of harmony because they decided to focus outside of themselves to gain power in the last 60 years and that focus is mostly middle east.
Middle east is like your hippy community in california where life is slow, families are big, produce is organic, art is crafts, money is scarce, portions are small, life is basic.
In contrast west is competitive, individual, creative on the verge of craziness, innovative like a mad scientist, capitalist and hungry as an obese.
When west focus on east they only do this for the sake of money. Not only oil or energy.
1.6 billion people is 300 million more than China's population.
That means tens of thousands of more McDonalds, Starbucks, Banks, Cars, Insurance, Packaged food, Coke bottles etc.Middle east is the biggest last market.
And these people are not ready to switch into your lifestyles.
Religion is only their cover, their safe grounds. Real fear is loosing their identity.
Think of it like this, you're want to drive your grandmother at 150 miles per hour in your Lamborghini. She doesn't want that.
With one difference tho. East is much younger than west. And most of them are being born in the west now.
We'll see what will come out of this marriage in the future.
My guess is that it will be freak.
Westernized middle eastern sudo-Muslim communities.In the mean time if you really want to learn what does islam says at the core read "THIS" Quran interpretation. Because the rest is just outdated for our times.
https://www.usc.edu/schools/coll…
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- sums it up right there, the west fears being overrun by islam, Islam fears being overrun by the west._niko
- and fear feeds evil.Beeswax
- also be my guest if u ever come to Istanbul so we can make a small QBN Istanbul drinks and discuss more. I'm on QBN FB group as Talha.Beeswax
- Thanks again sir. It was great reading your perspective.IRNlun6
- Would never come to Istanbul, but would definetly meet you for drinks in Constantinople ;)_niko
- fear feeds ignorance. ;)jaylarson
- +10,000sarahfailin
- *1.6 billion does not refer to Mid East. 1.6 b is amount of people practicing Muslim globally.pango
- Thanks for making this thread Beeswax. I always wonder why people are so eager to say that "all Muslims are like this." I guess there is something appealingyuekit
- about a black and white, us vs them view of the world.yuekit
- Great stuff man. Thanks for this perspective. I remember after the second gulf war western mobile companied salivating to get in to Iraq to provide cell phones.HijoDMaite
- Nothing against wireless communication but its just a small example.HijoDMaite
- very clear, thanx again beeswaxgeorgesIII
- thanks for putting yourself out there dude. great read for someone like me who doesn't really like the necessity of religion but can learn to understand it.indian_pole
- yes, thank youformed