OK.When some ignorant and stupid Muslims commit violence,they hurt mostly other Muslims.When the West commits violence,the entire world is hurt. How about adressing that too?
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I’d say that juxtaposing ‘The West’ with ‘Islam’ is wrong. The West versus The Middle East is a comparison that can be made. You are referring to state actors rather than individual actors. I’d say right today states in the Middle East and in the East ( Russia) are killing the most people.
Yeah! if you call Israel a Middle Eastern state,you're right. The problem is that it considers itself (and is considered by most Western leaders) as a "Western outpost in the ME". It even takes part in the Eurovision contest and takes part European sport competitions.
You raise an interesting question. How do we define “The West”, or any other region for that matter. Is South Africa “Western” or “African”? Are the countries of South America “West” - the vast majority of the citizens have European ancestry. Is “Japan” part of “The West” or “Eastern”?
So it’s not where the majority of Christians are (that’s South America and Africa), it’s not language, it’s not ethnicity (that would preclude Japan). It’s not just colonisers because Canada, Japan and Australia have been pretty rubbish at seizing territory. It’s a mystery!
How about greed,arrogance,propensity to lecture others about what's wrong and what's right.Especially the last one. You'll never see a Japanese lecturing others on how to behave.
Similarly do we define all countries that speak Arabic, Arab? Because there is tremendous ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in this collection of people.
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