Comment by piltdownman
3 days ago
>You'd think a peoples so utterly out-gunned would lay low, but they somehow aren't. There's something else that's fanning the flames, keeping the hatred going.
Never underestimate Culture, Religion and Nationhood as motivators - the West has a coloured history of martyring itself in the pursuit of all three in the 21st Century.
In this case they have a clear picture of their future; imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. In that context its easily understood.
Funny thing that the people that got citizenship to the place they were born and their basic human rights recognized by the government running them weren't subject to those motivations from "Culture, Religion and Nationhood".