Generations of people in the Middle East have been raised on a steady diet of hatred. Nearly from infancy they are taught to revile anyone not following their beliefs. (This is a huge generalization. There are plenty of Arabs, Jews, Persians, Kurds, etc. who don’t do this, but the undercurrent is still there.) The nearly institutionalized dissection of societies there is akin to the post-Reconstruction South in that the pervasive attitude towards blacks there was (and in some cases still is) so ingrained that generations of retraining, re-teaching, forcing the issue still hasn’t wiped it out completely.
But here’s the thing: will force work to bring about toleratation? And will we wait generations for an end to hatred? (We're still waiting for the divisiveness of hatred to end in our own neck of the woods.)
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