The past few weeks, I’ve been conducting a thought experiment. To try and understand the mindset of the Palestinians, I’ve attempted to blame all matters, no matter how large or small, on “the Canadians”.

I planned to continue this experiment for much longer than I have, but I want to stop before it becomes too ingrained. I find myself at a point where I have to tell myself that Canadians aren’t evil, that they aren’t out to get me… And it’s only been a few weeks.

In Arab countries, children are raised into a sick, twisted, ideology of “kill the infidels”. Non-believers are to them what demons are to Christians. Pure evil. They are brainwashed from birth. It took me only a few weeks to come very close to delusion. I cannot even begin to imagine what their mindset must be.

I’m not a sociologist, nor do I claim to be one. The results of my very informal study are somewhat staggering, but shouldn’t be considered the norm. I’d be interested to see what a real sociological study would find regarding this matter. If you’ve seen a study of this type, please let me know.