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Muslims attacked in New Zealand


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By Test_Fan - 15 Mar 2019 1:20 PM

Deleted because some people totally wrongly thought I was being sarcastic.

This is an extremely sad event, an horrific event that no one should have to endure.
By Enzo Bearzot - 24 Mar 2019 1:09 AM

sydneyfc1987 - 20 Mar 2019 7:41 AM
RyanM - 20 Mar 2019 12:43 AM

Humans are tribal in nature. It's a large part of why we are on this forum in the first place as a sense of belonging to a football club or national team is part of that. 

It's a never ending battle to ensure that such divisions never become too deep or hate-driven. The only way to do that is to understand what fuels these sentiments (ignorance and fear) and combat it through education and reasoned debate.

The whole purpose of the EU Experiment  was to avoid the repetition of the wars that have plagued Europe over the centuries.  The wars happened because Europe has numerous disparate people with different social, cultural and religious beliefs living in close proximity competing for resources, Having a borderless Europe was imagined to be the way forward for different people to mix and develop "understanding" of one and another,  and ultimately create a homogenous continent and thus an end wars.

Unfortunately it fucked up because they naively believed that the social, cultural and religious differences would not matter or would even be replaced by new societies that bridged the differences, as people's knowledge and experiences with the other would show them that "we're not all that different after all".

Yeah, right.