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:Well, Conservapedia is written from a pro-Christian and pro-American standpoint, so there will definitely be some opinion based on the American viewpoint of things. --<font color="#0000CC" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']]</font><sup><font color="00FFAA">[[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]]</font></sup> 23:03, 12 March 2007 (EDT) | :Well, Conservapedia is written from a pro-Christian and pro-American standpoint, so there will definitely be some opinion based on the American viewpoint of things. --<font color="#0000CC" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']]</font><sup><font color="00FFAA">[[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]]</font></sup> 23:03, 12 March 2007 (EDT) | ||
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| + | That's reasonable, but classifying Shia as opposed to Sunni Muslims as unusually anti-American seems silly. As stated above, al-Qaeda is an extremist Sunni organization. The most anti-American insurgents in Iraq are usually Sunni. Obviously saying that the Iranian government is anti-American would be reasonable, since anti-Americanism is a basis of Iranian policy. There are lots of Shia who aren't Iranian though, or who despise the Islamic Republic. The subtelty seems important. --[[User:WOVcenter|WOVcenter]] 03:39, 13 March 2007 (EDT) | ||
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Religious groups shouldn't be evaluated based on perceptions of their stance vis-a-vis the US. Iran and Hezbollah are no more arbiters of global Shiite opinion than Syria and al-Qaeda are of Sunni opinion. There are plenty of people of almost every conceivable religious conviction who like or dislike the United States or "the West." --WOVcenter 23:00, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
- Well, Conservapedia is written from a pro-Christian and pro-American standpoint, so there will definitely be some opinion based on the American viewpoint of things. --Hojimachongtalk 23:03, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
That's reasonable, but classifying Shia as opposed to Sunni Muslims as unusually anti-American seems silly. As stated above, al-Qaeda is an extremist Sunni organization. The most anti-American insurgents in Iraq are usually Sunni. Obviously saying that the Iranian government is anti-American would be reasonable, since anti-Americanism is a basis of Iranian policy. There are lots of Shia who aren't Iranian though, or who despise the Islamic Republic. The subtelty seems important. --WOVcenter 03:39, 13 March 2007 (EDT)
