http://yankeewombat.com/?p=519 An American in Oz Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://yankeewombat.com/?p=519#comment-29924 Cassandra Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:41:55 +0000 http://yankeewombat.com/?p=519#comment-29924 Hey there American, welcom in Oz. Greatly enjoyed your interpretation of the story here. Particularly love "... the conceit of the Europeans - they were confident that their culture would absorb the Muslims." I have registered what went on there, and called in 'naive'. You use the word 'conceit' which is probably more accurate. From their superior point of view, born out of ignorance of Islam, they made a fatal mistake. Being in denial about it - as in evidence in forms of pathological behavior (http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategies-for-dealing-with-denial_17.html) they now don't have a clue but to subdue and appease all dissent. Meantime they are leading us into a not particularly enlightened dictatorship. You would've thought ... Am looking forward to your future posts! Great stuff. Hey there American, welcom in Oz. Greatly enjoyed your interpretation of the story here. Particularly love “… the conceit of the Europeans – they were confident that their culture would absorb the Muslims.” I have registered what went on there, and called in ‘naive’. You use the word ‘conceit’ which is probably more accurate. From their superior point of view, born out of ignorance of Islam, they made a fatal mistake. Being in denial about it – as in evidence in forms of pathological behavior (http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategies-for-dealing-with-denial_17.html) they now don’t have a clue but to subdue and appease all dissent. Meantime they are leading us into a not particularly enlightened dictatorship. You would’ve thought …
Am looking forward to your future posts! Great stuff.

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