Be anti-West, be Islamic

[Mughal1]

Pakistan, tribalism, islam and secularism relationship explained


SEE HERE

 

[Muhammad-Bin-Qasim]

when will the so called "islamists" realize that you dont have to be anti-anything to be a Muslim!

Not even pray five times a day? How about Som? Zakah? Working for an economic system based on Islam?

 

[Qasibr]

You can't objectively form informed opinions until you look at the bigger picture. The "west" is not just hated in Pakistan, or in Muslim countries, in pretty much all European countries(even western europe), the US is widely hated. Whichever country decides that it's a "superpower" and has the right to pass off dictates to other countries gets hated - Great Britain was widely resented.

People hate the west because the west is full of duplicity - the people living in the west are very nice, decent people on the whole, their personal beliefs are their own, they may support homosexuality, mob rule(demo-cracy literally means mob rule), and this whole philosophy of "might is right"(invading over 50 3rd world countries since WW2). We may not, but it is not our place to tell them what to believe or not. Nor is it theirs to tell us. So - this duplicity is, I think, the root cause of widespread anti-west sentiments. The west is two-faced, one of the faces is very civilized, the general populace is very nice the skyscrapers and clean roads and all that.

And then there's the second face - the US foreign policy. Changing govts at will, supporting one side against the other - it's hard to find conflicts where the US is not knee-deep, supplying weapons to Saddam Hussain > invading the bloke's country a couple of times and killing MILLIONS of Iraqis because the US was mistaken that they had WMDs(and there is quantifiable evidence to show that they were not - they knew the truth beforehand and chose to ignore it) and also because 3000 people died in WTC(which, is a terrible tragedy - but so is the killing of millions of Iraqis and Afghans).

So in the bigger picture - the west does not really do much to help, you don't need to be anti-west to be a Muslim, people are anti-west in places like South America, Africa, even US-allied countries in Western Europe. And you can't blame Islam for that. I think the "west" and it's policies have alot to do with it.