VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
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VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
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Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#2Isn't it sad that this has to be said at all? "Hey, not every adherent of a religion supports killing innocent people of a different religion". It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades.
Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#3Isn't it sad that this has to be said at all? "Hey, not every adherent of a religion supports killing innocent people of a different religion". It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.
It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades.
Just a nitpick, but Catholic church did apologize to muslims killed by the crusaders[0].
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apologies_made_by_Pope...
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#4Isn't it sad that this has to be said at all? "Hey, not every adherent of a religion supports killing innocent people of a different religion". It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.
I agree. As much as we would like to believe that most people on the ground would make rational decisions in the face of such atrocities and not blame entire groups, the reality is never that simple. Emotions usually prevail and people end up blaming entire groups just through those groups' 'guilt by association'.
The fact that this was said by someone who has faced such horrors on a daily basis before is extremely respectful.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#5Isn't it sad that this has to be said at all? "Hey, not every adherent of a religion supports killing innocent people of a different religion". It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.
It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Just a nitpick, but Catholic church did apologize to muslims killed by the crusaders[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apologies_made_by_Pope...
It only took 800 years.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#6> They control large areas of land, have their own oil fields, and receive direct support from many countries in the region. Namely from rich oil-producing countries.
That's one of those things where we could make a fairly immediate change in policy, it would come at a cost, definitely but it would change the situation for IS for the worse far more effectively than any number of bombs dropped would do.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#7Isn't it sad that this has to be said at all? "Hey, not every adherent of a religion supports killing innocent people of a different religion". It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.
It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Just a nitpick, but Catholic church did apologize to muslims killed by the crusaders[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apologies_made_by_Pope...
Yes, but I don't mean the church, I mean you and me.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#8Isn't it sad that this has to be said at all? "Hey, not every adherent of a religion supports killing innocent people of a different religion". It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades. Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.
> It'd be like us having to apologize for the Crusades.
Or like Americans having to apologise for drone stikes, for Iraq and Afghanistan, and specific attacks like the MSF hospital in Kunduz.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#9> They control large areas of land, have their own oil fields, and receive direct support from many countries in the region. Namely from rich oil-producing countries. That's one of those things where we could make a fairly immediate change in policy, it would come at a cost, definitely but it would change the situation for IS for the worse far more effectively than any number of bombs dropped would do.
I don't see media speaking much about these countries that allows financing of ISIS. But if we want to eradicate ISIS, I too think we should deal with its financial sources first. Maybe because these countries are the same countries that western companies want to sell weapons to.
Re: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
#10With the immigration crisis and the Paris attacks, it seems that people completely forgot the atrocities that these nutjobs commit in their own home countries.
Perhaps it doesn't really matter to most westerners, but we shouldn't blame a billion people for the insanity of a small part of them.
It's a crazy situation, for sure...