RE:Telling lies, demonising and .. constructing a culture of superiority over those that one seeks to maintain within anempire is not confined to the treatment of the Irish or Black Africans...or indeed to the British imperialists. Evidence of this is extant in all of the ex imperial states of Europe and in the USA; particularly in the USA'a earlier attitude to both blacks and native tribes people. whichenabled them, in this particular case ( the 'indians), to carry out the first serious attempt at genocide by a 'civilised state'.
There have been many rulers of Jerusalem who were idiots. Pagan, Muslim, Jewish and Christian alike. There were also rulers on both sides who tolerated other faiths and the city flourished. When the Islamic Caphiliate ruled after the end of the Roman rule of the city they actually removed the rule of not allowing Jews into the city for the first time in several hundred years.
Absolutely....our view of the muslims , and other 'different races' has been tempered by our Imperia l history. The allusion to America was simply to draw the comparoison that european and /or Christian based anglo saxon imperialism was fundamentaly different in character to the earlier empires, which may have exhibited elements of cruelty were not based on race and ethnicity and the 'superiority of one race over another, leading to a distorted view of darwinism as an excuse for mass murder/ethnic cleansing. Our view of muslims as intolerant, murdering fanatics is therefore fundamentally wrong, but serves a purpose in the political psyche that needs to be created to enable invasion and subjugation to take place.
LOL </p> So if I come to your house, kick you out and then, at a later date, let you back in will you think I'm a great guy?</p>
I think you need to make a timeline. </p> Pop the Jews on it and Jesus and all the important things to do with Jeruslalem and then, last of all, the birth of Islam. Now stand back and have a look at it and you might get my point.</p>
I'll just do a pointy arrow somewhere in the 80's and write "There she goes, performs poorly in the charts" I'm going down the comedy misunderstanding route btw.
RE: LOL The city's early history as a settlement was that of Asian, Arabic and Jewish people. If your point is that the Jewish people have been treated horrifically, I won't disagree with you, but to single out just the Muslims is one-dimensional considering many countries have had a go at occupying the city and surrounding land. This includes the British, who only left after the uprising of the Irgun, who the UK government once classed as a terrorist regime and whose leader went on to found the Zionist state that is Israel. Anyhow, given your comments I look forward to you supporting the Iraqi people in their attempt to kick out the US from their country.
More LOLs. </p> You've as much blah and as little understanding of the point as Chezeburg.</p> You need to be working on disproving the fact that Islam came along 600 years after Jesus Christ. Go on you've attempted dafter things.</p>