I wonder how many people were really celebrating in the Middle East.
If 99% of a population are mourning and 1% are celebrating, the media will obviously film those 1% because this is something spectacular.
I experienced this quite often at political demonstrations here in Germany: 9000 peaceful demonstrators, 2 people throwing stones -> next day's headlines: "Violent demonstrators throw stones at police"
I totally agree that those celebrating people should not get yours or my money. I even think they (personally) would not even want it.
Donate your money to the Red Cross or to organizations that YOU trust.
After the devastation in NY many people were quickly taking the initiative to help "their brothers and sisters" which is a good thing to do. For the Middle East, too, local initiatives are much better than money being passed from one government to another.
One thing the cruelties have done is to raise a talk that so dominated by national(istic) viewpoints.
What happened to Internationalism?
I am not primarily a German or European citizen, but first of all I am a human, and so are the Americans, the Israeli, the Arabs, etc.
Please don't let terrorists and demagogues control your mind! There is no use for "US vs. Europe" flamewars. Or why are we all using the INTERnet?!
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I wonder how many people were really celebrating in the Middle East.
If 99% of a population are mourning and 1% are celebrating, the media will obviously film those 1% because this is something spectacular.
I experienced this quite often at political demonstrations here in Germany: 9000 peaceful demonstrators, 2 people throwing stones -> next day's headlines: "Violent demonstrators throw stones at police"
I totally agree that those celebrating people should not get yours or my money. I even think they (personally) would not even want it.
Donate your money to the Red Cross or to organizations that YOU trust.
After the devastation in NY many people were quickly taking the initiative to help "their brothers and sisters" which is a good thing to do. For the Middle East, too, local initiatives are much better than money being passed from one government to another.
One thing the cruelties have done is to raise a talk that so dominated by national(istic) viewpoints.
What happened to Internationalism?
I am not primarily a German or European citizen, but first of all I am a human, and so are the Americans, the Israeli, the Arabs, etc.
Please don't let terrorists and demagogues control your mind! There is no use for "US vs. Europe" flamewars. Or why are we all using the INTERnet?!