Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Constants and Variables 164, who hates edition
Totally random note from a bored and sleepy mind wandering through websites.
Among 'intellectual' writers, who hates Islam?
Catholics and Protestants and atheists are constantly slamming Islam itself in all sorts of stupid and bigoted ways, spreading bizarre delusions. Atheists are probably the worst.
[Confession: I was in that crowd before I turned off the TV in 2011. Again I deeply apologize for 10 years of bigotry.]
But: Jewish writers don't hate Islam at all. They treat it objectively and sometimes sympathetically.
Paradox? Israel has been fighting Palestinians since 1948, and occasionally fought other Arab countries.
But: Palestinians are largely Christian. For a long time Israel was allied with Persia, then after the revolution Israel decided to hate Persia.
In other words, Israel's wars and hatreds are ethnic and economic, not religious. 
Labels: Constants and Variables
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