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Post by jdredd on Jan 19, 2013 2:23:31 GMT -5
You can make the argument "they started it"' if you feel like it, but it doesn't hold any water with me.
And maybe Muslims would want to kill me given the chance, but they'll have to get in line. If SOMEONE doesn't want to kill you, you're not doing SOMETHING right.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 3, 2019 14:32:00 GMT -5
I started this thread worried about Muslim backlash to the Christian West going hog wild killing Muslims. I shouldn't have worried. Looks to me like Muslims hate each other more than they hate the West. Sunni Saudi Arabia is just fine with getting US aid in it's rivalry with Shiite Iran. They'll even ally themselves with Israel.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 21, 2019 12:40:07 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/world/asia/china-islam-crackdown.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"YINAN, China — In China’s northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. The authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, including one in a small village near Linxia, a city known as “Little Mecca.” Similar demolitions have been carried out in Inner Mongolia, Henan and Ningxia, the homeland of China’s largest Muslim ethnic minority, the Hui. In the southern province of Yunnan, three mosques were closed. From Beijing to Ningxia, officials have banned the public use of Arabic script. This campaign represents the newest front in the Chinese Communist Party’s sweeping rollback of individual religious freedoms, after decades of relative openness that allowed more moderate forms of Islam to blossom. The harsh crackdown on Muslims that began with the Uighurs in Xinjiang is spreading to more regions and more groups. It is driven by the party’s fear that adherence to the Muslim faith could turn into religious extremism and open defiance of its rule. Across China, the party is now imposing new restrictions on Islamic customs and practices, in line with a confidential party directive, parts of which have been seen by The New York Times." China oppressing Muslims in China, CIA murder drones operating over the Middle East. Is there a difference?
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Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2024 17:11:06 GMT -5
Well, waiting for the senile codger to come to a conclusion about our revenge strike against the alleged perpetrators of the strike that killed 3 servicemen. Eye for an eye. Of course in Gaza it’s 25,000 eyes for 1200.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 1, 2024 13:20:51 GMT -5
Headline in the NYT: “ Airstrike in Damascus Kills a Top Iranian Commander, Iranian Media Say”. I immediately assumed the U.S. had done it, but it was Israel. Which shows how much Israel and the U.s. are birds of a feather. How many martyrs are we both making?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 19, 2024 23:36:46 GMT -5
Do Islamists do violence against the West? Of course they do. It’s just not the subject of this thread. As I’ve said before, shallow tit for tat arguments don’t cut it. We are dealing with a long history of colonialism. And I consider Israel part of the “West”.
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