[spectre] British Council quits Europe to woo Muslim world

[Heiko Recktenwald]

Joseph Gray wrote:
> The writer Heiko Recktenwald writ:
>
> •> The cultural barriers between the West and the Middle-East do need
> •> removal.
> • This is interesting as well.
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IMHO there is (a) is no such a barrier between single persons . And if 
there is (b) a barrier between societies, groups, it may be based in 
politics and may have good reasons.

Shure, books are better than weapons. And they may follow new politics. 
Probably the best they can do today.

But quiting Europe may not be very clever. We will survive it, but it is 
easier to destroy something than to recreate it on one later day.



H.

> It's a delicate situation.  The fear and anger from the Muslim world
> towards the West is based on their oppression by not only international
> corporations and western governments, but by their own leaders deceit.  To
> know and be familiar with a person makes that person less frightening,
> especially when one realizes that we are all just people, with similar
> fears and desires.  This is well known by dictator type governments, which
> is why they take such efforts to "shelter" their populace against western
> ideas.  The UK's move to create libraries in these "hotbeds of terrorism"
> will be met with a great deal of resistance.  However, it's a step toward
> the right direction.  Bombing the shit out of them obviously isn't
> working.
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