The people that sold the gun used at Columbine didn't know what it was going to be used for, Reagen knew what Iran was all about.
The West sold weapons to both sides in the Iran-Iraq War in order to prevent either side from gaining a decisive advantage. In essence, we played two rouge states off of one another, because the alternative (Socialist Arab or Fundamentalist Persian regional dominance) was worse.
Again, however, as the mods have already pointed out, this is off topic for the Religion subforum. I would suggest that you simply drop the subject.
The West IS just as violent and brutal, just in a different way
This is so blindly evasive and fumblingly vague as to be practically worthless.
Unless you can point to any Western atrocities which even begin to compare to the Iraqi sack of Kuwait City, or the various genocides which have taken place in places such as Darfur, Bangladesh, or Rwanda, your whole line of reasoning here is completely bunk.
and the middle east was much less violent and brutal when compared to europe in the middle ages.
Nonsense.
Muslim Conquest of the Indian Sub-Continent
Timur
Are you familar with the pyramids of human skulls Tamerlane (a.k.a. The "Sword of Isalm") liked to build outside the walls of the cities he sacked?
The only reason ignorant self-loathing Westerners
think the Medieval West was worse is because modern historians with blatantly anti-Christian agendas like to spend all of their time focusing on the bad aspects of European culture during this period while almost completely ignoring the rest of the world.
You've been played. I'm afraid.
So you can keep your opinion that Islam is somehow intrinsically evil, if and only if you ignore all of history.
I never claimed this.
Ask anyone from Latin America, or south east asia ... or pakistan ... I can get a list from the last 60 years if you'd like.
Oh yes, we Western Christians are just so damn
evil,
amiright? I mean... Just
look at the history!
Remember that one time when we killed
two million people in just four years in Cambodia?
Oh, wait. No. It turns out that this was done by the atheist
Khmer Rouge. My mistake.
Well, do you remember those widespread terror campaigns
we targeted against civilians in Vietnam then?
Whoops! Sorry. My bad again! That was also perpetuated by godless
Communists. :doh
Maybe we had something to do with the genocide that took place in
Bangladesh in 1971?
Nope, that was the Islamic
Pakistani Army.
How about you drop the faux "holier than thou" routine and simply admit that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about? :roll:
