The religion of peace and tolerance at work again
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David Wulff wrote:
There are two types of people who use the Internet: i) those who seek to learn from the hundreds of people from different countries, cultures, races and their collective experiences that are brought together through a common medium and activity, and ii) those who seek to flatter their ego by believing they are better than the sum of those people.
What about those of us who seek to flatter our egos by learning from the hundreds of people whose value summation we pretend is slightly less than our own?
David Wulff wrote:
Past interactions with you however have shown very clearly that you are a number two.
Hur hur hur... you said "number two"... :rolleyes:
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Shog9 wrote:
Hur hur hur... you said "number two"...
It took me ages to get the wording just right. ;P
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"Prejudices, biases, and no real thought in action. Nothing useful ever comes of it." - Jeremy Falcon -
Pumpkin, you're an idiot. Blaming the sectarian violence in Iraq on the religion of Islam is like blaming the decades of violence in northern Ireland squarely on Christianity. It's not religion that's causing this violence - it's the history of persecution and tension between segments of the population. Now Saddam isn't around the Shiites want political control, and they have Iran behind them. The Sunni parties have concluded that that probably won't be a good thing... That coupled with very deliberate attacks on social (schools, hospitals, markets) and religious (mosques) only fuel the tensions.
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"Prejudices, biases, and no real thought in action. Nothing useful ever comes of it." - Jeremy FalconDavid, Though I agree with your analysis in general, I think in this instance this is a case of religious dogma gone amok.
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Pumpkin, you're an idiot. Blaming the sectarian violence in Iraq on the religion of Islam is like blaming the decades of violence in northern Ireland squarely on Christianity. It's not religion that's causing this violence - it's the history of persecution and tension between segments of the population. Now Saddam isn't around the Shiites want political control, and they have Iran behind them. The Sunni parties have concluded that that probably won't be a good thing... That coupled with very deliberate attacks on social (schools, hospitals, markets) and religious (mosques) only fuel the tensions.
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"Prejudices, biases, and no real thought in action. Nothing useful ever comes of it." - Jeremy FalconAgrred. Not only that, if it was truly about Islam, then the people who kidnapped the Taekwan Do team would have killed them instantly instead of holding them out for ransom. In the original incident, the dead people's car was stolen. For all they know, they used the shorts warning as an excuse to kill the people and steal the car. Poverty, desperation and a lack of education is a much worse combination than nitrogen and glycerin. [Humor]Hey, my last sentence has meaning and a nice beat to it.[Humor]
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Agrred. Not only that, if it was truly about Islam, then the people who kidnapped the Taekwan Do team would have killed them instantly instead of holding them out for ransom. In the original incident, the dead people's car was stolen. For all they know, they used the shorts warning as an excuse to kill the people and steal the car. Poverty, desperation and a lack of education is a much worse combination than nitrogen and glycerin. [Humor]Hey, my last sentence has meaning and a nice beat to it.[Humor]
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
For all they know, they used the shorts warning as an excuse to kill the people and steal the car.
There is a history of dress-code enforcement in that area (Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, ...). The recent clothing voted on by the Iranian parliment (which doesn't seem to include special colors for religious minorities, but does include dress-codes for Muslims) is one example. Women must wear the burka and chador in countries in the region. I recall hearing about acid attacks on people who wear Western-style (jeans, etc) clothing in Pakistan. The idea of fundamentalists enforcing religious laws for/against certain clothing would hardly be new to the area. And, I think Western-style clothing is particularly disliked not only because it is "immodest" but implies some Western cultural influence, which I'm sure is abhored by the very religious. Pakistan/Afghanistan: The most militant Islamist groups who resisted the Soviet influence banded together under mujaheddin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Peshawar, northern Pakistan. They objected fiercely to Muslim women not wearing the veil and to their working outside the home. Some of his supporters threw acid on women wearing Western dress in Kabul. http://www.wworld.org/archive/archive.asp?ID=125[^] Iraq: In Iraq, a pamphlet recently found on a campus declared: "Any girl student who does not wear a veil and who wears Western clothing will have her face burned with chemicals." http://www.wfafi.org/E-ZanVol11.htm[^] Afghanistan: I asked someone why Kabul's women still wore burkhas. His answer was that they still feel incredibly vulnerable and uncomfortable. There have been, and continue to be, acid attacks made against women who do not wear them. http://www.abroadviewmagazine.com/regions/asia/afghanistan/letters.html[^] Kashmir: A militant group in Kashmir has issued an ultimatum for women to wear th
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Agrred. Not only that, if it was truly about Islam, then the people who kidnapped the Taekwan Do team would have killed them instantly instead of holding them out for ransom. In the original incident, the dead people's car was stolen. For all they know, they used the shorts warning as an excuse to kill the people and steal the car. Poverty, desperation and a lack of education is a much worse combination than nitrogen and glycerin. [Humor]Hey, my last sentence has meaning and a nice beat to it.[Humor]
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
nitrogen and glycerin.
You mean nitric acid, sulphuric acid, and glycerin? MOΛΩN ΛABE
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
nitrogen and glycerin.
You mean nitric acid, sulphuric acid, and glycerin? MOΛΩN ΛABE
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Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'[^] I guess they are only peaceful and tolerant toward people who abide by their dress code. X|
Your tolerance would be a great example to these extermists. The tigress is here :-D
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Your tolerance would be a great example to these extermists. The tigress is here :-D
Yes it would. I do not want to go killing people because they dress differently than i do. MOΛΩN ΛABE
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Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'[^] I guess they are only peaceful and tolerant toward people who abide by their dress code. X|
Speaking of dresses this[^]is an intresting finding. When will world getrid of Neocons!!!:rolleyes:
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Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'[^] I guess they are only peaceful and tolerant toward people who abide by their dress code. X|
WTF are they doing practicing tennis for the Olympics? Don't they have bigger problems? Idiots. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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WTF are they doing practicing tennis for the Olympics? Don't they have bigger problems? Idiots. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
WTF are they doing practicing tennis for the Olympics? Don't they have bigger problems? Idiots.
I think their biggest problem is that their attention is not focussed on non-violent activities. If the whole country was focussed on improving the quality of their tennis or the quality of the output of their factories or the taste of their food or ... most of their problems would disappear. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
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Marc Clifton wrote:
WTF are they doing practicing tennis for the Olympics? Don't they have bigger problems? Idiots.
I think their biggest problem is that their attention is not focussed on non-violent activities. If the whole country was focussed on improving the quality of their tennis or the quality of the output of their factories or the taste of their food or ... most of their problems would disappear. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
John Carson wrote:
their attention is not focussed on non-violent activities
I get the impression that there isn't a single activity that isn't approached with at least the threat of violence. It seems almost a cultural thing. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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John Carson wrote:
their attention is not focussed on non-violent activities
I get the impression that there isn't a single activity that isn't approached with at least the threat of violence. It seems almost a cultural thing. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
I get the impression that there isn't a single activity that isn't approached with at least the threat of violence. It seems almost a cultural thing.
Perhaps, but people can spend their time thinking about their political / ethnic / religious identity and the real and imagined threats and injustices associated with that, or they can busy themselves with work of some kind and reap the benefits from that work. The second option is very much to be preferred. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I get the impression that there isn't a single activity that isn't approached with at least the threat of violence. It seems almost a cultural thing.
Perhaps, but people can spend their time thinking about their political / ethnic / religious identity and the real and imagined threats and injustices associated with that, or they can busy themselves with work of some kind and reap the benefits from that work. The second option is very much to be preferred. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
John Carson wrote:
or they can busy themselves with work of some kind and reap the benefits from that work.
Very true. Seems many people, not just Iraqis, do the former though. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Speaking of dresses this[^]is an intresting finding. When will world getrid of Neocons!!!:rolleyes:
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John Carson wrote:
their attention is not focussed on non-violent activities
I get the impression that there isn't a single activity that isn't approached with at least the threat of violence. It seems almost a cultural thing. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
An invasion that destroys everything. Add ontop of that a militia that would do anything to consolidate the power given to them, and people are saying the violence seems 'almost a cultural thing' :~
The Quran's Rational Arguments (Audio) Background on Prophet Muhammad (in progress) "They are MUSLIM. It does not matter how you split it up: all msulims (so they say) see every other muslim as a brother, regardless of origin or nationality." -legalAlien. Alhamdullah for the blessing of Islam
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An invasion that destroys everything. Add ontop of that a militia that would do anything to consolidate the power given to them, and people are saying the violence seems 'almost a cultural thing' :~
The Quran's Rational Arguments (Audio) Background on Prophet Muhammad (in progress) "They are MUSLIM. It does not matter how you split it up: all msulims (so they say) see every other muslim as a brother, regardless of origin or nationality." -legalAlien. Alhamdullah for the blessing of Islam
A.A. wrote:
An invasion that destroys everything. Add ontop of that a militia that would do anything to consolidate the power given to them, and people are saying the violence seems 'almost a cultural thing'
Well the Iraqis seem to now mainly be fighting each other. I think the culture has something to do with that. Plenty of countries have been invaded and occupied without descending into this sort of internal conflict. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
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A.A. wrote:
An invasion that destroys everything. Add ontop of that a militia that would do anything to consolidate the power given to them, and people are saying the violence seems 'almost a cultural thing'
Well the Iraqis seem to now mainly be fighting each other. I think the culture has something to do with that. Plenty of countries have been invaded and occupied without descending into this sort of internal conflict. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
If you look at the main players that are fighting each other you would see that they are the occupation and those they brought with them [the Badr brigade/SCIRI] and the locals and those that came to fight the occupation. Even a good portion of the Govt[if you want to call it that] that is yet to be formed is imported. Contrary to what the media has been trumpting here this is not purly a sectarian/ethnic conflict. On the other hand now there is some internal strife, though alot of it seems to be repeatedly instigated by external forces, look at the Madaen incident and many similiar incidents. The old divide and conquer trick.
The Quran's Rational Arguments (Audio) Background on Prophet Muhammad (in progress) "They are MUSLIM. It does not matter how you split it up: all msulims (so they say) see every other muslim as a brother, regardless of origin or nationality." -legalAlien. Alhamdullah for the blessing of Islam
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If you look at the main players that are fighting each other you would see that they are the occupation and those they brought with them [the Badr brigade/SCIRI] and the locals and those that came to fight the occupation. Even a good portion of the Govt[if you want to call it that] that is yet to be formed is imported. Contrary to what the media has been trumpting here this is not purly a sectarian/ethnic conflict. On the other hand now there is some internal strife, though alot of it seems to be repeatedly instigated by external forces, look at the Madaen incident and many similiar incidents. The old divide and conquer trick.
The Quran's Rational Arguments (Audio) Background on Prophet Muhammad (in progress) "They are MUSLIM. It does not matter how you split it up: all msulims (so they say) see every other muslim as a brother, regardless of origin or nationality." -legalAlien. Alhamdullah for the blessing of Islam
A.A. wrote:
Contrary to what the media has been trumpting here this is not purly a sectarian/ethnic conflict.
No-one is claiming that it is "purely" a sectarian/ethnic conflict, but I don't think there is any serious doubt that that is now a very large part of it.
A.A. wrote:
On the other hand now there is some internal strife, though alot of it seems to be repeatedly instigated by external forces, look at the Madaen incident and many similiar incidents. The old divide and conquer trick.
I don't buy this for a second. Sectarian conflict will destroy the plans that the Bush Administration has for Iraq and it is in the process of doing just that. Iraq at the moment looks ungovernable. That means no appealing example of a democracy for the rest of the middle east, no stable government to discourage terrorism, no stable supply of oil, no early opportunity for a US withdrawal and hence an end to US casualties --- just a mess that the world will blame on America and that US voters will blame on the Republican Party in the upcoming Congressional elections. John Carson "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
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John Carson wrote:
According to the report, leaflets warning about the wearing of shorts had been distributed earlier. You are right that, without a full investigation that identified the culprits, we can't be sure of the motive, but if threats of such action had been made in the past, then it is a reasonable guess (no more) that the killings represented a carrying out of those threats.
This would be a reasonable assumption if there wasn't so much death and destruction happening everyday. The imported militias/criminals have a real strong presence and have been one of the driving force behind the chaos felt by the common Iraqi. Also if you notice from the report their car was stolen, as for the leaflets I just don't see the relevance [did the leaflets warn of death to anyone wearing shorts?]
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According to this article, leaflets have been threatening death for people who don't follow their religious laws: "Radicals have been leaving leaflets at homes, forbidding women to drive or go outside without being veiled. The leaflet also warns men not to wear shorts or dress in T-shirts bearing images or English writing. In addition, the leaflet forbids men from wearing goatee beards and anyone from buying mayonnaise. The leaflet threatens violators with death. Islamic militants hold immense power in western and southern Baghdad, and they have been known to kill barbers who give American-style haircuts. The area is regarded as being as off limits to Westerners, where a visit can spell instant death." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2199305,00.html[^] ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]