Re: Why are we not protecting these people? Archived Message
Posted by Liberal on April 4, 2011, 4:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Why are we not protecting these people?"
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ivorycoast/index.html "The United Nations and aid groups said on April 2 that hundreds of people were killed in a single town in the worst episode of violence during the four-month crisis. The exact number of dead was unclear, with estimates ranging from 330 to as high as 1,000. It was also uncertain whether the toll fell primarily on civilians or combatants. But Caritas, a Catholic charity whose staff members visited the town, Duékoué, in western Ivory Coast, called it a “massacre.”" ... that comment was taken by the radical right-wing propaganda and twisted or expanded upon to suggest that it was a religious-based crime. lawler asked why obama did not comment on these crimes - and why we did nothing to help these people when we help libya...so i explained that this incident or "massacre" was religiously driven... the entire civil war is not a religious war - it is as you said a cultural war - an ethnic war - but each culture supports their culture's faith - and in many ways the religion is the culture...or at least a great part of it. the muslims are in the north - the christians in the south. and this stark division is definitely a part of the situation. if muslims from the north "massacre" hundreds of christians in the south - the tension increases - thus why the article is relevant and why i responded in the manner i did. you act as if religion plays no part in the civil war of the ivory coast...though i do not think it plays as big of a part as lawler suggests.
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