Dukasaur wrote:They don't look all that brown, really. No more so than the average Italian. Your attempt to paint this in racial terms is another of your dishonest dodges.
The Mideast conflict is a conflict between European civilization and the great darkness of Asiatic despotism, of which Muslim theocracy is merely the latest incarnation. The genetics of the Europeans and the Asiatics is really not that different. The divide is ideological, not racial.
Racism is about a bit more than skin colour, Duk. It's also about, for example, what we perceive as typical. Say, having a fixed idea of what an "average Italian" is like.
As a side note, what are your thoughts on the European theocratic state in Rome, Italy? I think it may have some form in imposing conflict on the middle east.