I don't care what Christians did a millenium ago. We're not talking about whether or not the Crusades were justified. We're talking about what Muslims do NOW.
Western kids and Muslim kids both learn about the Crusades in school. The difference seems to be that ours read about them in World History class, whereas Muslim kids study them in Current Events class.
cristal: The struggle for irish freedom had absolutely zero to do with religion. It was a national;istic struggle. Branding the two sides "Protestants" and "Catholics" was simply lazy journalism. Nobody was fighting about transubstatiationism or the supremacy of the Pope. Most though not all Loyalists were Protestant, and most though not all Republicans were Catholic. The father of irish republicanism was a Protestant, Theobald Wolfe Tone.
cal: This isn't some sort of race in which there is a designated time to advance. They're living in the modern world. They're exposed to the same events that we are and are able to see places and events in real time by way of modern technology just like we do. The time for them to drag themselves kicking and screaming into the 21st century is NOW.
Western kids and Muslim kids both learn about the Crusades in school. The difference seems to be that ours read about them in World History class, whereas Muslim kids study them in Current Events class.
cristal: The struggle for irish freedom had absolutely zero to do with religion. It was a national;istic struggle. Branding the two sides "Protestants" and "Catholics" was simply lazy journalism. Nobody was fighting about transubstatiationism or the supremacy of the Pope. Most though not all Loyalists were Protestant, and most though not all Republicans were Catholic. The father of irish republicanism was a Protestant, Theobald Wolfe Tone.
cal: This isn't some sort of race in which there is a designated time to advance. They're living in the modern world. They're exposed to the same events that we are and are able to see places and events in real time by way of modern technology just like we do. The time for them to drag themselves kicking and screaming into the 21st century is NOW.