On 12/23/2013 1:09 PM, Lars R. wrote:
>>> But nearly no-one ask: Why do young men get so despaired in their
>>> lives, that they bomb themselves away? Why are they so disappointed
>>> about our world, about their future in this world that they hope
>>> for salvation in a promised heaven?
>>
>> This is something I've never figured out.
>>
>> It's apparently no secret that the Muslims want us dead. But I
>> haven't got the vaguest idea *why*.
>
> Okay, you already oversimplicate it. :-(
>
> It has nothing to do with Islam. Religion is just a vehicle to carry an
> oversimplied message. Why simplified? So it can be understood by people
> without education.
>
> As always: It is much easier to blame other people for own misery. That
> principle works exactly the same "here" (in Western Europe and Nothern
> America) and "there" (the Eastern Hemisphere, the Muslim world etc.)
>
> The only way to overcome such thinking is: education and enlightenment.
> But instead of investing in schools and universities we "invest" in
> armament and support apologists of stupidity, not only in Muslim
> countries, also in our own ones. :-(

A lot of us would love to bring education and enlightenment to these 
other places, but their governments actively frustrate this goal. 
Things that in the West are regarded as shameful balderdash, credited 
only by the most philosophically impoverished, are presented as 
unvarnished truth by the state-run media.

Regards,
John

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