To me too there are some points in the discussions about the so-called terrorist attacks in the US that is still disturbing to me. Someone else mentioned that we assume so easily that we know what other people actually believe. How is it that we regard other cultures as being homogenous, when in fact all cultures today are amazingly heterogeneous in their beliefs
and > function on various levels ?
This was the most valuable discovery people from different cultures made about eachother since the end of apartheid in South Africa. > If it was not for "terrorism" apartheid would have still existed in South Africa.
It was not at all pleasant times, not for anybody, especially during > the 80's. But, it was also not pleasant times for many before apartheid had > ended either. It is also not pleasant times for many at the moment due to > the high crime rate... but strange enough all this is more tolerable to the > larger number of people than how things were before the 90's.
For some these attacks the past week mark an event in a much larger
war, one > that is far more consequential, which to them is the war over the existence > of Western Civilization and specifically Christianity. Some people need an > enemy as much as others need a victim - so they just "create" one.