interesting...

[benponder]

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[adudeabides]

It didn't occur to me that people didn't know there was a healthy, thriving Christian population in the Middle East that co-exists peacefully with Islam without a hitch. :x

[benponder]

I can't claim to be completely connected to mainstream contemporary culture, but from conversations I've had on the street while busking and while working as a waiter, the idea I'd heard most often from people is that It's purely Muslim

[beerjudge]

Thrown out without much though...

I took his comment about being the original inhabitants to mean Mesopotamia, though to be the birthplace of modern civilization, which happens to include Iraq.

not so much chaos

[lnb1956]

I think that a lot of the so called chaos in the Middle East is actually in the way the media spins out the story. Few if any of the reporters out there know much about the region. I should know I spent quite a few years living there and met regularly with the so called reporters of various news organizations. What they were after was a good line for the story to be filed. Yes all 3 great religions have lived side by side for centuries and in relative peace and quiet. The infidels are not necessarily Christians it can be anyone who disagrees or anyone who does not meet the basic description of the few crazies out there who call themselves real muslims. I have a lot of muslim friends some very religious and never had a cross word with them

Re: not so much chaos

[benponder]

I think that a lot of the so called chaos in the Middle East is actually in the way the media spins out the storyThat's my point exactly. The image we've got of the situation is what sells. It's not real life, it's things taken out of context to rivet viewers to their seats and get higher ratings for the channel