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Monkey wrench to be reckoned with
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- 15 Mar 2005
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- 15 Mar 2005 10:24:50 AM
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If you thought the differences between Europe and United States are vast, try bringing Islam into the equation. That's a "mother of all monkey wrenches"
one view of the existing conflict
Without much imagination you can view Europe in about the same way you view greater Los Angeles metropolitan area with the surrounding counties. People of San Diego and San Francisco don't like this view since it includes their towns as "natural extensions of Los Angeles, but in terms of area it is just plain VAST. It’s vast – compared to most cities and it’s comprised of many different nationalities: The Chinese, The Korean, The white and the black, the Jews and the gentiles, the legal Mexicans and the illegal Mexicans, etc. etc. Yet they all live in relative harmony. For the Europeans that degree of harmony is unthinkable, and for us, Americans it is European bickering and constant fighting that is unimaginable.
Even the “100 year war” between France and England pales by comparison to the animosity that is dominant on European soil today. Examples are easy to find, so let’s name a few (the Basques who live in today’s Northern Spain and Southern France; Macedonians who live in today’s Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece; Germans outside of Germany in Sudetan lands, Banat, Slovakia, Switzerland, Serbians who live in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece etc.)
Considering that most Americans trace some of their lineage to Europeans, and being that it is still virtually impossible for us to understand one another, how hard is it to get to a level of understanding between Americas and Islam? Extremely hard, if not utterly impossible. After hundreds of years of not knowing and understanding one another there was a serious clash first noticed by the attack on WTC in NYC on 9/11.
Just today, March 15, 2005 you have the French courts ruling to sentence some anti-American Muslims who plotted to bomb American Embassy in Paris, full article at: story.news.yahoo.com/news
Quoted: “PARIS (Reuters) - A French court sentenced French-Algerian Djamel Beghal Tuesday to 10 years in prison for plotting to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris and jailed five accomplices for periods of one to nine years. The six men, all of Algerian origin, are suspected of having links to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden but denied any role in the foiled 2001 plot. They were charged with criminal conspiracy designed to commit an act of terrorism.”
Iliya Pavlovich
Even the “100 year war” between France and England pales by comparison to the animosity that is dominant on European soil today. Examples are easy to find, so let’s name a few (the Basques who live in today’s Northern Spain and Southern France; Macedonians who live in today’s Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece; Germans outside of Germany in Sudetan lands, Banat, Slovakia, Switzerland, Serbians who live in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece etc.)
Considering that most Americans trace some of their lineage to Europeans, and being that it is still virtually impossible for us to understand one another, how hard is it to get to a level of understanding between Americas and Islam? Extremely hard, if not utterly impossible. After hundreds of years of not knowing and understanding one another there was a serious clash first noticed by the attack on WTC in NYC on 9/11.
Just today, March 15, 2005 you have the French courts ruling to sentence some anti-American Muslims who plotted to bomb American Embassy in Paris, full article at: story.news.yahoo.com/news
Quoted: “PARIS (Reuters) - A French court sentenced French-Algerian Djamel Beghal Tuesday to 10 years in prison for plotting to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris and jailed five accomplices for periods of one to nine years. The six men, all of Algerian origin, are suspected of having links to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden but denied any role in the foiled 2001 plot. They were charged with criminal conspiracy designed to commit an act of terrorism.”
Iliya Pavlovich
one possible plain wrench
Saudi Arabia is considered the center of Islam
another possible monkey wrench
Europe's solutions can be questioned
American Embassy in Paris France (Reuter's photo)
about the size of Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area
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