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[lethalseethal]

Update! I'm really bad about this aren't I?

The cliff notes version: HEAT, Indian restaurant, Jewish museum, going to Asia for dinner, getting a smelly fan AFTER the heatwave lol, election madness over (AKP won with 46% - landslide election, as predicted), reading Harry Potter in the heat, visiting the underground cistern (sounds boring but its

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[jooolie]

wow, I really enjoyed reading that post! A lot of it resonated with what I experienced on a smaller level in Argentina, with political thinking and cultural comparisons (religion too, to a miniscule extent) and groups of Americans. I hope we can chat about this more when you get back, because I'm really interested!

[midnightowl510]

The article was chilling...the way it opened with the quote on how happy he was about 9/11. The professor seems to have a really bizarre relationship with the western world, hating the idea of it but embracing cultural aspects of literature and movies? Odd.

I agree that a lot of the comments were really stupid/ignorant. Like how one person wrote sadist/Islamist like it was the same thing, or one that said how all Muslim immigration should be stopped.

Ditto on the media thing, though I have noticed when they have articles on more mainstream Islam or once I think there was an editorial about a woman who had converted to Islam and started wearing a headscarf and the freedoms it gave her. Pretty interesting stuff. I hate having to argue with my dad whenever he says Islam seems like it encourages violence more than other religions/cultures. At the same time, reports on terrorists and suicide bombers in Israel don't do much to paint a better picture. I guess it's just a very complex issue.