Not to mention they hate man's best friend, must be because some dogs can smell malice immediately.
There's three I trust in my social circles, one's from the former Soviet bloc (not Chechyna lol) and has read the Bible more than the his religion's own holy book, good guy who isn't afraid to stick up for you (and doesn't get offended), the second fled Iran with her family (half-Christian) when the Shah was ousted and the third had to leave Turkey with his gf for criticising both the government and fundamentalism. The rest I've met (which has been quite a few) were untrustworthy and/or backwards as fuck on everything and don't belong here where our values are so diametrically opposed.
People forget even very conservative Islam isn't particularly based, they blame all their problems - even the ones they create - on Jews and outsiders and never ever take personal responsibility. One I knew claimed the US created all the ME's terror groups. Moderates are a very small minority. There have also been plenty of communist aligned factions in the near east from Kurds to the Egyptians under Nasser.
My biggest consolation (not that it helps much at present) is 1500 years ago my forebears were the foaming at the mouth book burning barbarians that torched the Roman empire, so there's definitely room for cultures to grow. It just ain't happening over a few decades.
Not to mention they hate man's best friend, must be because some dogs can smell malice immediately.
There's three I trust in my social circles, one's from the former Soviet bloc (not Chechyna lol) and has read the Bible more than the his religion's own holy book, good guy who isn't afraid to stick up for you (and doesn't get offended), the second fled Iran with her family (half-Christian) when the Shah was ousted and the third had to leave Turkey with his gf for criticising both the government and fundamentalism. The rest I've met (which has been quite a few) were untrustworthy and/or backwards as fuck on everything and don't belong here where our values are so diametrically opposed.
People forget even very conservative Islam isn't particularly based, they blame all their problems - even the ones they create - on Jews and outsiders and never ever take personal responsibility. One I knew claimed the US created all the ME's terror groups. Moderates are a very small minority. There have also been plenty of communist aligned factions in the near east from Kurds to the Egyptians under Nasser.
My biggest consolation (not that it helps much at present) is 1500 years ago my forebears were the foaming at the mouth book burning barbarians that torched the Roman empire, so there's definitely room for cultures to grow. It just ain't happening over a few decades.