tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post1760804493214334218..comments2023-12-05T07:50:19.855-05:00Comments on No Oil for Pacifists: Globalization Didn't Happen Yesterday@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-54794349785315825762008-07-24T12:45:00.000-04:002008-07-24T12:45:00.000-04:00Islam is a threat to human life and liberty everyw...Islam is a threat to human life and liberty everywhere. It is as much a political movement, more threatening than other political movements, then a religion. Even as a religion it enslaves and limits rather than enhances the lives of people who call themselves Islamic. Globalization is healthy where there is heterogeneity of thought and belief. Islam seeks to destroy all people, ideas, beliefs, actions that are not stipulated in the Koran, the document that reduces women to slaves, recommends killing all nonIslamic people and advocates lying and sadistic practices such as cutting off body parts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-2790847819364306652008-07-16T14:29:00.000-04:002008-07-16T14:29:00.000-04:00~Priyanka:1) The fact that initial inter-cultural...~Priyanka:<BR/><BR/>1) The fact that initial inter-cultural experiences were often unfortunate doesn't necessarily undermine the current outcome of globalization. As an analogy, the fact that most of the world formerly employed slavery doesn't necessarily mean the world is irredeemably wicked today.<BR/><BR/>2) I think you missed the point of the quote: what you might call "imperial" Venice was at the mercy of whoever controlled Indonesian spices. That concept is, in an sense, anti-imperialist.@nooil4pacifistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-44870066537874614442008-07-16T02:06:00.000-04:002008-07-16T02:06:00.000-04:00I find it a bit odd that you are citing imperialis...I find it a bit odd that you are citing imperialism as the first steps towards globalization.<BR/>Since globalization is result of intercultural business relations while initial trades were quite aggressive and violent towards different cultures.<BR/><BR/>~Priyanka<BR/>www.mahindrauniverse.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com