Racist of acurate ? The middle east in comparison to us 1,000 yrs ago?

Question

The society and the religions of the middle east are absolutely no different than the brutal world of Britain and others about 1,000 yrs ago . he civil wars the archaic views of god and god's role in the world etc How we treated women (they haven't had the vote all that long ) The way we dealt with criminals (the tower in London ) and the rest of it -

For this very Star Trk sounding reason we have no business in the middle east.

No one interfered with us and our extraodinarily violent and uninformed society - Of course we were the top dog in a military sense then too .

I think we should get out of thier country let them fight thier own wars and behave exactly as we have in the past and as happened to us we should let them alone to do what ever they are going to do.

It is not that I think that the people are inferior (far from it) but there civilation is a long way from ours .

We should not be giving them our technology they will develop it as they can handle it.

Answer 1

You are right. We used to be just a brutal but all we had were swords and boiling oil at the time. Now we have people with a 10th century mentality who have access to 21st century weapons. I've know for a long time that it would spell big trouble. Another thing that spells trouble is that we are more than 6 billion. It is usually hard for 2 people that love each other to get along without fighting once in a while. How could we expect 6 billion of us to get along especially knowing that most of us dislike each other?

Answer 2

Actually, a thousand years ago many English, French, Germans, and Italians were fighting in the Crusades that took place in the Middle East. Christians have long had an obsession with that area of the world because that is where Jerusalem is and that is where Jesus lived. Europe was also under the threat of Muslims all the time. There were Moors in Spain till 1492 (a great year for Spain) and the Turks have been in Europe since the 14th century. It really was Christian vs. Muslim for quite a long time. I also think that the Muslims are more advanced in their beliefs that Europe was 1000 years ago. I would say they may be in the 17th or 18th century when compared to Europe. At that time in Europe the continent was going through a transformation from a religious to a more secular society. In Muslim countries such as Turkey and Egypt this has taken place and is pretty much established. In Saudi Arabia and Iran religion reigns surpreme. In Iraq religion mattered but their leader was secular. Now who knows what there new leader is going to do with that country. It would be dreadful for the Middle East if Iraq went Shia and teamed up with Iran. They could bomb the world back to 1000 AD.

Answer 3

Hey, you don't need to go anywhere near as far back as a thousand years. A few hundred would suffice. A thousand years ago, the muslim world was leaps and bounds ahead of the western world.

Keeping technology away from them is impossible. Modern technology spreads quite easily. Should I mention that Pakistan already has nukes?

I do agree that we should quit mucking around in that part of the world. Islam needs to be reformed, but the reforms have to come from within. If we try instituting reforms at gunpoint, we'll merely empower all the radicals and make all the moderates seem like traitors to their people.

In any case, the reason they hate us has nothing to do with our society and culture. They hate us because our foreign policy has been mucking around in their world for decades, propping up oppressive dictatorships and what-not. They'd be happy to ignore us if we'd only butt out and allow them to do their own thing.

Answer 4

It was not in the middle ages, what about all those wars the USA gets into the last 100 years.
I think USA should leave the middle east and also the Palestine alone. I am pretty sure most of the chaos in this world right now are due to USA being in war wwith Palestine for decades.

Answer 5

the U. S. isn't even a real democracy; it really is been defined as a "Democratic Republic." Democracy contained in the middle East would bring about extra secular Muslim governments; scornful of the U. S. authorities, and unwilling to cooperate with the U. S.' call for to take over their oil fields. the U. S. does no longer favor democracy contained in the middle East; it needs yet another Commonwealth, like Puerto Rico.

Answer 6

it is not racist. it is a really great comparison, that i am surprised no one else has hit upon yet.

i also agree with you in that we have no business over there (for the reasons provided) however, if they are so threatened with our way of life that they want to kill us with planes we eventually needed to confront them. I don't agree with how we went about it. it was ill planned and lacking resources, but we cannot expect that this clash of civilization wouldn't have come about as some point or another. unfortunately we can't leave now because of multiple dynamics:

it would be accepting defeat to terror
it would allow insergency to prevail to a more severe degree in Irq
it be huge loss economically
it would be viewed by the world as an atrocity (sp)

i personally have thought about this issue a lot and spent most of my undergrad studying the politics behind it. the only conclusion i came up with was that religion has hurt humans more than it has helped. I am spiritual myself, but come from the train of thought that it should be clearly seperate from the political areana.

the only thing that we can do now, is elect people that will not waste an entire congressional term (2 yrs) blame one another and get people in there that will come up with a plan.
(D) **** Durbin of Illinois came up with a very palatable plan, but because of partisan fighting hasn't had the support to get it off the floor.
we need a prsident who is less devicive, that is not going to separate people by polarity. bush has done this time and time again, despite running on the platform: "uniter." we need someone who will allow these people , terrorists or otherwise, a place at the table to talk.

the alternative is that they will gain our attention with bombs and planes flying into buildings.

it is possible to respect a religion that commands people to separate from western influence.

i believe this because in the US we respect Amish. I know that people wil say "well Amish didnt fly WTC..." True, but we never imposed sanctions on the Amish either, or became devided by isreal issue with the amish.

it really boils down to people wanting there way of life to be respected and american influence blindly ignoring. We have done it throughout history and we have an opportunity to remain a super power in the world, without stepping on peoples cultural toes.

Answer 7

This is a completely unfounded question. Based on uneducation. The problem in the Middle East today is the fact that the West couldn't just keep their hands out of it and mind their business.

Answer 8

The Islamic world preserved most of your history when you were going through the dark ages.

Mention that you bigot.

=)

Answer 9

And please don't forget that during the Middle Ages, the Middle East was the beacon of science and wisdom; preserved for our application as we emerged from that epic.

Answer 10

The difference is we've evolved, while these desert and cave dwelling sub-humans continue to languish in their Islamo-Fascist society, contributing no good to humanity whatsoever.