Why did the West steal a Middle Eastern religion and then claim it as their own?
954829
We stole it because honestly we thought no one would notice!\n\nC'mon, you didn't even catch on for 2000 years! \n\nIt's ours Now! You can't have it back!
210408
YES; Iraq/Iran have caused more trouble for the Middle-East than anyone in the Muslem World. And the Iranians are'nt Arab, they're Asiatic Islam's.
970554
Cause some muslims came after us first!
299701
The west and U.s. definitely have their own agenda and It has nothing at all to do with democracy It is to set up puppet regimes that promote the political interests of the West and allows them to extort massive amounts of money from these countries
714039
Mohammad could create a new religion that pandered to his every whim only if he said that, so he did it. He sold his soul to the devil as did Joseph Smith and other false prophets in the more recent past, in order to satisfy their own desires.\n    The different versions of the Bible in existence today is a poor excuse made by ignorant Muslims because we still have a true unchanged version in use among the mainline churches from the beginning.
1179544
it does go back thousand of years ago Islams believe in Ala and Jews believe in Jesus. and they Ben fighting for Israel sense Israel was discovered.
453847
Because they needed a way top control the oil in Iraq and the "war against terrorism" was a excellent justification to do so. . .\n\nThe US is looking to spread it's culture in the middle east before western culture and middle eastern islam meet head on.
1028466
ياسر القحطاني\nThe guy who answered before me should take the 10 points\nor it would be like i stole it from him.
150749
:}\nJerusalem fell under the control of the Greek empire when conquered by Alexander the Great, After is death, the empire was divided into parts among his 4 generals. One of them Seleucid took control of Syria. One of the Greek-Syrian rulers Antiochus Epiphany  attempted to enforce the worship of Zeus the Greek God on the Jews. A revolt resulted led by Mattathias Maccabeus and his sons who eventually freed Jerusalem and the temple from Greek-Syrian control. The Jewish Holiday of  Hanukkah  celebrates that freeing of the temple and it’s rededication to the Lord
560092
You sound like Guru Nanak. \n\nHe was a Muslim and said such things.\n\nThen his followers fell out with the other Muslims and started another religion
131570
Palestine was actually the home place of the Jews. But after many invasions they were driven out of their place and they migrated to many places.Finally it came under the control of the Ottoman empire.In 1880's the Palestinians in Europe decided to reclaim their homeplace. However during that time 95 percent of the population was Muslim( supported by the Arabs) and very few Christians and Jews. In 1917 the British took control of the place and gave contradictory assurances to both the parties. However during the world war (2 i think) the Palestinians started immigrating illegally into Palestine and their popu in Palestine was significant. The British proposed a division which was rejected by both and since then started the conflict
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Its not oxymoronic, its hyppocritical and ironic. I think it would be fair to say that the religion that has started the magority of the fights over religion is the Christians.  For example they marched thousands of miles to the "holy land" and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Muslums and burned infants on crosses and then claimed Jerusalem as their own private property. Take a look at all of the fighting in the Middle East between the Palistinians and the Israelies and tell me how you think that all started. IT WAS THE CHRISTIANS!
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There is no ethical reason for Israel to have their own state in the Middle East. Why should they have been allowed to just come in and take land away from the Palestinian people? If every race of people who have lost land in historical wars were allowed to just come back, then California does belong to Mexico; the American Indians own The U.S.; Northern France belongs to England; Greece owns Cyprus, southern Italy, and Bosnia... The difference with this situation is there was no war for land to be won. The Zionists just came in, with some minor support from Europe, and took the land. If the Ottoman Empire had chosen to be against Germany in World War I, Palestine would never have come under British control, and the Zionists could have never pressured Parliament to encourage a Jewish migration. Once the Holocaust happened during World War II, a complete and udder disgrace for all humankind, the Zionists had the upper hand, and with Europe domination in the Middle East, they had no problem setting up Israel as a State. Things could have been alright, but some of Israel's leaders wanted to create an Israeli State that controlled lands owned by Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and of course, Palestine. If they had just stayed within their borders, everything would be a lot less violent. Bottom line is, the land belonged to Palestine before Europe gave it to the Israelis.
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It wasn't religion (or 'just religion'), it was a tribal differences.  Many parts of the world rely on tribes and clans as their basis for organizations.  The modern Western World has nothing really close to this, though ethnic "enclaves" in cities may suffice.\n\nSaddam's clan and their allies have been fighting the Kurds and Shia for a long time.  The Kurds, like the Shia, were a threat to his powerbase.  Very few scholars in the Western World understand these tribal... hatreds or animosities are the best words. \n\nThis tribal/clan allegiance also leads to fractionalization.  Clan chiefs (Skieks in Arab cultures), are sometimes bought off, threatened, or simply removed if the other clan has enough power or by internal conflict.  This is how the US was so successful in Afghanistan.  We caused a rift in the clans supporting the Taliban and Al Qaeda by paying off Shieks.  It works A LOT better than fighting them and their clan of 5000!\n\nSaddam bought off some opponents, especially Sunni clans.  He threatened others (i.e., the Shia clans), and simply exterminated the Kurds without much warning to the world, or the Kurds.\n\nThat's a short answer.  There are several books on the tribalism of the world (Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations” or even "Bush at War" goes into how clans can be divided without firing a shot)\n\nThough when it came to playing the Arab Media, Saddam would pretend to be very religious.  However, true to his NAZI sympathizer uncle (al Tikrit), he was an anti-religious national socialist.
150215
It was largely pagan.Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal, Wadd, Al-Lat, Manat, and Uzza, while some tribes had converted to Christianity or Judaism, and a few individuals, the hanifs, had apparently rejected polytheism in favor of a vague monotheism.\n\nBy the fourth century AD, the Arab kingdoms of the Lakhmids in southern Iraq and Ghassanids in southern Syria had emerged just south of the Fertile Crescent and ended up allying respectively with the Sassanid and Byzantine Empires. Thus they were constantly at war with each other on behalf of their imperial patrons. However, their courts were responsible for some notable examples of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and for some of the few surviving pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions in the Arabic alphabet. The Lakhmid kingdom was dissolved by the Sassanids in 602, while the Ghassanids would hold out until engulfed by the expansion of Islam. Mecca was conquered by the Quraysh around 500CE and was already a religious centre.\n\nThere was a split between the Arabs who lived in towns near oasis growing dates and supplying trade caravans and the Bedouin who lived as nomadic pastoralists. This split still exists in Arab culture today.
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Well, the land was won by Israel after they were ATTACKED by Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.  Due to the ancient rite of war it's their land.  And obviously you haven't paid any attention to the news since Israel has given control of the land that they won back to the Palestinians
691467
Because they are Islamic countrys!