Condemnation by "islamic leaders" is broad & routine. Along with protests & anger at leaders for failing to stop it. https://twitter.com/Jens_Krueger/status/749695688682930176 …
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People selling us eternal, structural conflict that cannot be fixed are wrong, either from ignorance and short-sightedness—or malevolence.
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natural strategy to absolve oneself of icky feelings of guilt: "nothing could have been done to stop this"
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Myths of eternal, foreordained conflict generally serve to divert attention from specific more recent mistakes. E.g., the Balkans.
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How much crap were we fed in the 90s about the Eternal Ethnic Animosities between people in adjacent Balkan valleys?
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Perish forbid we think about stupid things done by modern politicians, because look, the Fourth Crusade.
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Obviously events from long ago can cast long shadows. But myths of "eternal" conflict generally means someone's peddling BS.
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Yep. Many momentous, relevant & powerful processes in the last generation or two, but many want to only discuss stuff 1000 years old.
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