Comments by "Konz" (@konz7185) on "VICE News Daily: Beyond The Headlines - January 06, 2015" video.

All the westerners blaming Islam for the violence in Middle-east. But what you like to forget is that the colonization is the reason that fucked up Middle-east and Africa. Yes its your own fault!
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dutchvonrichardson Iran is pretty much the same as it was in Persian times. Their borders are the same as the borders were mainly in the Sassanian empire.. Well a little smaller.
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Komo Kam Muhammad said Jihad by sword AKA War is the least important thing about Islam. And people should remember that, terrorists don't. The situation in Middle-east is what it is because of Europe and USA (maybe because of Turkey too) there's no need to argue. There were no Islamic suicide attacks before. This is something that has happened very recently.
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ALBO22 Islam didn't enslave Africa. They conquered NORTHERN Africa. (not a very special event in history) And the Islamic caliphate controlled the entirety of North-Africa for only a couple hundred years. Here is how minorities were treated in the Umayyad Caliphate: ''Non-Muslim groups in the Umayyad Caliphate, which included Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and pagan Berbers, were called dhimmis. They were given a legally protected status as second-class citizens as long as they accepted and acknowledged the political supremacy of the ruling Muslims. They were allowed to have their own courts, and were given freedom of their religion within the empire. Although they could not hold the highest public offices in the empire, they had many bureaucratic positions within the government. Christians and Jews still continued to produce great theological thinkers within their communities, but as time wore on, many of the intellectuals converted to Islam, leading to a lack of great thinkers in the non-Muslim communities.'' That is a lot better compared to how the Europeans and Americans treated Blacks even a thousand years later. And the western colonization lasted for over 400 years. Also when the arabs invaded north-africa they didn't enslave the population you fucking dumbfuck.
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Rashaenka False. Most wars in Africa have their roots in colonization. When rival tribes were put next to each other in small areas. straight lines drawn on the map as borders, hatred encouraged and kept well alive between the tribes. These people remember it and they still hate each other for it. Pakistan has fucked up tribal areas and so does Afghanistan. Not gonna argue about that. But i'm talking about the majority of the population. They're not retarded murderers.
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Madonna MI Oh well maybe colonization wasn't as bad in Middle-east. But lets check out more recent events. USA brings ''freedom'' to Iraq and Afghanistan (probably originally with ''good'' intentions) but it ends up with a clusterfuck of insurgent groups. Same story in Libya and soon maybe in Syria.
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tyler durn Ottoman empire did not control the entire Middle-east. And what i count as Middle-east stretches from North-West Africa to Pakistan. But you can also put it this way. Were there large Islamist terrorist insurgencies back in the early 1900s? I don't think so... This is all very recent. Well not in Africa.. But in Middle-east.
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dutchvonrichardson Well you can call Muhammed a horrible warlord, an invader a murdered etc. But in reality the religions in Middle-east before Islam were... A lot worse...
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dutchvonrichardson I believe that the religions in ancient Persia were not that bad. Or shit if i know i didn't look in to this too much here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism But i can easily say that the religions in North Africa and in Arabia were fucked up then.
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