I've added a link called "What they're saying" on the right... No, your other right... that has all the XML feeds I could find on the blogroll. If you've got a feed and I missed you, send me an email and I'll add you in. If you're on the list and you don't want to be there, do the same and I'll dump you. If it breaks, then the heck with it... Oh, and by the way, it's still IE-specific. I'm still too dumb new at handling XML to come up with a browser-independent version. But I'm working on it...
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Robert Prather â amongothers â notes al-Muhajiroun's planned festivities commemorating 9-11, along with their calls for the introduction of Shariah law in Britain. Robert sez
Obviously that isn't going to happen but I have no tolerance for their point of view. I wouldn't resort to violence, unless attacked, but something has to be done. They're using the very freedom they despise to try and undo that same freedom. We need more outrage over this issue and it should get massive coverage by the mainstream media. Where are they?
In case you're interested, here's the agenda for the riot rally:
6:00 - 6:05pm - Recitation of the Qur'an
6:05 - 6:15pm - Introduction by the Chairman
Br. Anjem Choudary (UK)
UK Leader of Al-Muhajiroun & Chairman of The Society of Muslim Lawyers "G'morning, God. We're waving our butts in the air, just like the Prophet told us to..." 6:15 - 6:45pm - The role of The Raafidhah in the shade of September the 11th
By Sheikh Abu Muntasir Al-Baloushi (Iran)
Rabittat Ahl ul-Sunnah Fee Iran The speaker's an Iranian Sunni (His name translates to "the Baluchi", so he's probably as much Pak as Iranian). Raafidhah are the Shi'ites... 6:45 - 7:15pm - Settling the outstanding account
By Sheikh Yasser Sirri (Egypt)
Amir of The Islamic Observatory Centre (IOC) That sounds like it'll be a call for dire revenge against... somebody or other. Prob'ly us. Al-Sirri is facing extradition to the United States for allegedly sending terror money to Afghanistan... 7:15 - 7:45pm - The Alliance of the US and Al-Saud in their attack against Muslims
By Dr Muhammad Al-Mass'ari (Saudi Arabia)
Secretary General of the Commission for The Defence of Legitimate Rights (CDLR) That would be the al-Qaeda guy. A Brit diplomat â a diplomat, mind you â once described his views as "pretty Neanderthal"... 7:45 - 8:15pm - BREAK FOR MAGHRIB PRAYER AND FOOD And water. Y'get low on water, spraying all that spittle... 8:15 - 8:45pm - History Repeats itself
By Sheikh Abdullah El Faisal (Jamaica) Are we gonna do Andalusia again? El-Faisal, is a Jamaican-born convert to Islam. He was up on charges for encouraging "others to murder persons unknown." El-Faisal denied the charge. His lawyers say he is a respected cleric whose quotations from scripture have been taken out of context. One of the quotes was âYou have no choice but to hate [the Jews]. How do you fight the Jews? You kill the Jews.â 8:45 - 9:15pm - The positive outcomes of the 11th September 2001
By Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad (Syria)
Judge of The Shari'ah Court of The UK & Principal of The London School of Shari'ah "The positive outcome is that we're closer than we've ever been to a war of cultures. Us Muslims have them infidels outnumbered, so we're gonna win. God's on our side and we have more cannon fodder than they do..." 9:15 - 9:45pm - The US Conspiracy against Islam and Muslims
By Sheikh Abu Hamza (Egypt)
Amir of The Supporters of Shari'ah & Imam of Finsbury Park Mosque That's the same conspiracy that got him a death sentence if he goes back to Yemen... 9:45 - 10:30pm - Questions & Answers Main question I can think of is, how do the Brits let them get away with these horse maneuvers? 10:30 - 11:00pm - Press Conference "We're peaceful and we're put upon. Wanna see me cut somebody's head off?"
Other invited speakers include:
Br. Abu Ibraheem (Pakistan) Head of Harakat ul-Khilafah,
Br. Abu Izz ud-Deen (UK) Chairman of The Society of Converts to Islam
Br. Abu Yahya (UK) Leader of The Muslim Youth Movement
O' Muslims, we have a duty to speak out and to act against the oppression that is continuing in Palestine or any other part of the world. We must support each other and cooperate against the enemy of Islam and Muslims. We must not stop just because some Jew or their puppets find the truth offensive.
I've commented before on al-Muhajiroun and the Brit mullahs. I've been unable to understand why the Brits haven't cracked down on them seriously since 9-11. That's because I'm not in the last surprised at their desire to institute shariah in England â the ultimate aim is literally to control the world:
Muslims cannot coexist with other religious denominations unless under the divine system of ISLAM. This is because Islam protects the lives, honour, dignity of all citizens within the Islamic state (Al-Khilafah) wether they be Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, etc. (Fact: For more than 1300 years has ISLAM Successfully looked after the affairs of mankind).
To take up Sheikh Bakri's theme for the hoe-down, one of the good things that has come out of the 9-11 attacks is that these people have been unable to control their arrogance and their vitriol. They're under the mistaken impression that the attacks actually hurt us, rather than just making us mad. Because the amount of money it's cost us is huge by their standards â Binny said it's more than Sudan's GDP â they don't see it as our national pocket change.
The reaction to 9-11 been like turning on a light â you never saw so many cockroaches in all your life. But you've got to know the little beasties are there before calling in an exterminator. The bad part is that because of the "don't blame all Muslims" mush that was spewed in the wake of the attacks, and the fact that President Bush hasn't been reminding the public on a daily (at least weekly, for Gosh sake!) basis that we're in a real, serious war against an implacable enemy, we're going to have to suffer through more attacks before we make the really vicious moves that are going to be necessary to defeat the enemy. If we don't make those moves â civil libertarians, hide your eyes â we're going to lose the war, and our children will be wearing turbans and burkas.
The only reason I can see that the lot of these guys hasn't been jugged is that for every event like this, you see the same faces over and over. Maybe the Brits figure that having visible nutcases is better than having nutcases incognito.
And as a continuation of the same thought â well, maybe not precisely the same â read the Lib Samizdatelstvo's News from an Alternate Universe. Mom, take me there!
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What would be equivalent to this? Allowing British Nazis to hold pro-Hitler rallies, during the blitz?
Note that these elements are never charged under the EU's Human Rights laws.
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I'm thinking of posting a message to both Queen Elizabeth suggesting that she ban these assholes. The same goes for Tony Blair and George Bush.
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A small bomb exploded in a music shop in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, wounding four people, a military commander said. The bomb went off in the morning in a CD store in Khost, said the commander, Sur Gul. Music and video stores have often been targets of attacks in recent months in Khost, a stronghold of the former Taliban regime, which outlawed such entertainment as an abomination. "Music leads to laughter. Laughter leads to frivolty and unseemly mirth. Frivolty and mirth are un-Islamic. They must be killed!"
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"Sir... the levels on this copy of the 1812 Overture are just way off the scale, do you have one that's been mixed and balanced better? Sir... um, why are you bleeding?"
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Three people have been killed in fighting in an eastern Afghan city after local radio reported that U.S. forces had arrested a renegade warlord, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported. The warlord, Padshah Khan Zadran, quickly denied the report carried on the local radio station in the town of Khost, saying he had only held talks with a U.S. delegation. "But that's okay. Go ahead and shoot it out. Don't mind me...
AIP said several people were also wounded in the clashes between forces loyal to Zadran and those of provincial governor Hakim Taniwal in Khost. Fighting erupted in parts of the city where Zadran's supporters were in the majority, including the areas around the governor's house, the provincial guest house and customs house. AIP quoted witnesses as saying the rival fighters used rocket grenades and small arms. Just your run-of-the-mill argument among Pashtuns...
"The Khost radio report that I have been arrested by U.S. forces is wrong," Zadran was quoted by the AIP as saying. "I am free and am at present at my ancestral village. I had talks with a U.S. delegation who met me in an attempt to remove differences between (President) Hamid Karzai and me. They asked me to sit at a negotiation table with Hamid Karzai but I told them that unless Hamid Karzai fulfils the promises he made with me, I will not talk to him." "Yeah. Who does he think he is, the president or something?"
A government official in Khost, Haji Mohammad, told Reuters he had heard Zadran had been surrounded by U.S. forces, but not that he had been arrested. It's way past time to arrange a "terrible accident" for this guy...
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The Observer carries a piece on Sammy's mistress, who's managed to escape from Iraq.
He called her 'Shaqraa' - the blonde. When she married another man after their youthful fling, he had her husband thrown into prison and his assets seized. His son raped her daughter when she was 15. Now, after a terrifying escape from Baghdad and months in hiding, Saddam Hussein's on-off mistress for more than 30 years has finally broken her silence.
We probably could have guessed it'd be something like that, if we'd bothered thinking about it. I imagine there's another dozen or so Zabibahs around...
Shaqraa, meanwhile, still spent time with Saddam. She says he wept when he was forced to withdraw from Kuwait, but that he is a man of personal courage: 'He does not fear America.' She claims he regarded the UN weapons inspectors with contempt.
She provides other insights into his character. He never reads books, she says, and despite his Islamic rhetoric, he drinks alcohol regularly. 'His goal is for his name to live for 1,000 years, as the new Arab hero, the second Saladin.'
We've noticed his megalomania before. There might be some people, somewhere — living in a convent, maybe, or on a particularly isolated Indian reservation — who find this sort of thing surprising. It's hard to feel any sympathy for her; she was drawn to power like a politician as drawn to a cliche, and part of the draw was the danger involved. Just ask Eva Braun and Claretta Petacci...
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09/08/2002 08:23 am ||
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He regarded with UN weapons inspectors with contempt? Whadduya know -- we finally agree on something.
Oops, the only weapons inspector =I= regarded with contempt was the aforementioned Mr. Ritter. Saddam didn't mean him, did he?
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Iraq is incapable of producing weapons of mass destruction and should prove it by allowing in U.N. weapons inspectors, an American who was once on the inspections teams said Sunday. With his comments during a visit to Baghdad, Scott Ritter - who has been a sharp critic of U.S. policy on Iraq - joined a long list of officials from European and Arab nations who have urged Iraq to accept inspectors to defuse a crisis with the United States. Ritter's turnaround on Iraq wasn't even subtle. Money? Women? Both?
Iraqi cooperation on inspections would leave the United States ``standing alone in regards to war threats on Iraq and this is the best way to prevent the war,'' said Ritter, a former U.S. Marine intelligence officer, who spoke to members of parliament and to journalists on his third trip to Iraq since he resigned from the U.N. inspection team in 1998. As in the past, his trip was organized by the Iraqi government. The rest of his schedule was not yet public. Wonder what else they've organized for him?
``The truth is Iraq is not a threat to its neighbors and it is not acting in a manner which threatens anyone outside its borders,'' Ritter said. ``Military action against Iraq cannot be justified.'' "Never has been, never will be..."
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The reason for Ritter's 180º turnaround is no secret, lucre.
"Ritter said he was first invited to Baghdad last year by the Iraqi government after the publication of his book "Endgame," which argued that the continuation of economic sanctions on Iraq was more "evil" than doing business with Saddam Hussein. "They were shocked by my position in the book," Ritter said.
Ritter said that several months later, at a hearing on Capitol Hill, he met Iraqi-born American businessman Shakir Alkafajii, who had heard Ritter attack U.S. policy toward Iraq. Alkafajii asked what Ritter could do to end the sanctions and break the impasse in relations between the United States and Iraq. "I said I could do a documentary," Ritter answered.
Alkafajii, who is accompanying Ritter as a "translator and cultural adviser," secured the travel visas for the crew and agreed to put up a $400,000 line of credit to finance the documentary."
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A meeting was held at the Chollima House of Culture on Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Effecting A Revolutionary Advance In The Production Of Works Of Art And Literature". Present at the meeting were Jang Chol, chairman of the central committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea (GFULAK), Song Sok Hwan and Jo Chan Gu, vice-ministers of culture, officials concerned and creators and artistes. Gosh, I am so sorry I missed it. But y'know, I did have to wash my hair, and the closet was getting so disorganized...
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09/08/2002 09:06 am ||
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But I'll bet he'll never be awarded for his ground-breaking work in Chemistry a la Madame Ceaucescu. Nobody is that talented. Except maybe his father.
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Pakistani militants attacked a police van Sunday in an attempt to free imprisoned comrades, triggering a gun battle that left four militants dead — including the two prisoners, who were accused in an October attack on a church. The two prisoners were leading police to a hidden weapons cache after midnight Sunday when the police van was ambushed by three men in a white car. The incident happened near the village of Karore Pakka, in the eastern province of Punjab, Deputy Inspector General Police Chaudhry Iftikhar said. Leading them to the arms cache after midnight? Why not wait until it's light? And the Bad Guys just happened to be waiting to ambush them en route? Betcha I know where Mahmoud the Weasel's working now...
The two prisoners were killed in the hourlong shootout, as were two of the men who tried to free them. A hunt was on for the third attacker. Police said the militants, all in their early 20s, were believed to be followers of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Sunni Muslim group that has targeted Christians and minority Shiite Muslims. The prisoners, Abdul Shiraz and Muhammad Wasim, were accused of attacking a Protestant congregation in Behawalpur last October. Fifteen Christians and one Muslim guard were killed in that attack, which happened when at least six gunmen burst into St. Dominic's Roman Catholic church - which the Protestants were using - during services, spraying the congregation with gunfire. They've been an inspiration to gunnies ever since...
Four other suspects in the Behawalpur attack and two more militants were killed in almost identical circumstances six weeks ago. That's something that makes me wonder whether the idea was to spring these guys, or if it was to shut them up...
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Departing U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson, in a bleak assessment of the state of human rights, accused governments of hiding behind the ongoing war on terrorism to trample civil liberties and crush troublesome opponents. "Suddenly the T-word is used all the time," Robinson said, referring to terrorism. "And that's the problem." Yeah. Self-preservation's such an outdated concept...
The United States, Russia and China were among the nations she said were ignoring civil rights in the name of combating international terrorist groups. Well, that's funny. Those are the three areas the Bad Guys are attacking. Europe doesn't have to worry about getting attacked, because all the Muslims have to do is keep swarming in and demanding shariah. Eventually they'll get it, they can kill the original ihabitants, and the ummah will be bigger and grander...
"Everything is justified by that T-word," the 58-year-old former Irish president said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I hope that countries will put human rights back on the agenda because it tended to slip after September 11." We will, Mary. We promise, just as soon as all the terrorists are dead...
Robinson argued the Bush administration set the tone by holding detainees from Afghanistan without charge at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She also criticized Washington's opposition to the new International Criminal Court. "The world needs leadership in human rights and the United States could give great leadership. It's not giving it at the moment, unfortunately," said Robinson, who leaves her post Wednesday. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, Mary...
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Don't much care how she leaves, as long as she leaves!
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My concern is that Mary will end up as the Commisar for Human Rights in the EU. I'd prefer her to spend her remaining days practicing in front of a mirror with her hairbrush, but it doesn't look like that will happen.
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Andrew Olmstedmakes fun of analyzes the Boston Globe's paen to Mary...
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And she was wearing the Pants of Power in Ireland for *how* long? You'd think someone would have taken a strap to her for such views there.
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Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticized Western policy toward Muslim nations on Sunday, saying attacks and sanctions will create endless "recruits to terrorism." Doing nothing, on the other hand, will result in the death of our civilization...
Considered a moderate Muslim voice, the Malaysian leader has won U.S. praise for his stance against terrorism, including thanks from President Bush during a visit to Washington in May. But Mahathir has remained a strident critic of the West, including of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The leader of predominantly Muslim Malaysia for 21 years, he has stressed that to defeat terrorism, the root causes must be removed, particularly the Palestinian plight. We got some of the root causes at Tora Bora. Some of the other root causes are in Guantanamo, or captured or killed elsewhere. We're trying to get more root causes, but they've gone underground...
"It may be coincidental, but the fact is that most of the targets of oppression and attacks are Muslims and Muslim countries," Mahathir said in a speech. "Is it any wonder that Muslims everywhere feel oppressed, feel angry, bitter and frustrated?" It may be coincidental, but a major wing of Islam has declared war on the U.S. and the West. It's also recruiting busy little beavers in turbans to subvert Malaysia and its neighbors. As soon as 19 Esquimeaux fly a plane into the Sears Tower, we'll get right on rooting out all the people who wear mukluks...
Mahathir said that issues such as Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and Western sanctions against Iraq, Iran, Libya and Sudan had forced some Muslims to retaliate "through acts of terror, hitting out blindly at the innocents as well as the guilty." Denying, in fact, that there's such a thing as innocence among us Kafirs...
"Typically, the Western solution is to physically fight against the enemy, the Islamic civilization," Mahathir told a gathering of business leaders on Pangkor, a resort island 120 miles north of Kuala Lumpur. "Unfortunately, short of total genocide, the terrorists cannot be militarily defeated." Sure they can. Decapitating the organization's the best way. That's given us a year's respite from major al-Qaeda atrocities and allowed us to come along way in tracing the money flow to terrorism. We weren't aware prior to 9-11 that the Soddies were at war with us. Now we are, and we're fighting back, using some of the same approaches they used against us.
Mahathir supports the international fight against terrorism, but is opposed to the U.S.-backed military campaign in Afghanistan and has predicted global instability if the United States attacks Iraq. "There is practically no effort to win the hearts and minds of the Muslims," Mahathir said. "In fact, everything is being done to alienate them further, to anger and frustrate them, and to ensure there will be a constant and probably increasing supply of recruits to terrorism." We made our efforts to win their hearts and minds prior to 9-11, when we defended Kuwait and Soddy Arabia, and the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo. Now it's incumbent upon Muslims who don't intend to rule the world to step back and please us as we protect ourself and them from the threat posed by the wahhabis.
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Amen!
The "moderate Muslims" had better find a way to muzzle their radical bretheren, or the West will do it for them. If we have to do it, the toll on them will be horrific.
Early Saturday, Israeli troops moved into the Gaza Strip town of Deir el Balah, detaining six men and destroying two buildings, one of which the army says was used to make weapons - a claim the Palestinians denied. The army said it also searched a Gaza office belonging to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement and found a "powerful explosive device." "Ummm... Not ours. Somebody musta left it here..." And the worst part about it all, it could be true!
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Did you hear the one about the Palestinian cyclist? He peadled so hard up the last climb, he blew up!
Also on Saturday, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli soldiers arrested leading Hamas militant Hisham Sharabaty. Few details of the arrest were available, but Palestinians said Sharabaty, long wanted by Israel, had been living at large for years and was arrested at his home during a rare visit. "Honey, I'm home! What's for dinner?"
"Stick 'em up, Hisham!"
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Israeli authorities have barred 12 Palestinian lawmakers from traveling from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank to attend a parliamentary session discussing democratic reforms sought by Israel and the United States, officials said Sunday. The 88-member Legislative Council, the Palestinians' nascent parliament, is convening Monday in the West Bank town of Ramallah in a session expected to discuss sweeping reforms of Arafat's self-rule authority. "Yeah. We're gonna reform stuff. Important stuff. Stuff like... ummmm... important stuff."
Ofir Haham, an official for the Israeli civil administration in the Gaza Strip, said anyone deemed a security risk would not be allowed to travel for the session, though he said the majority would be able to attend. ``I can say that most of them will be able to enter Ramallah,'' Haham said. Ahmed Queria, the council speaker, said 12 lawmakers were denied permission to travel from the Gaza Strip. Oh, so it's not all of them? That's a little more reasonable...
The council has not had a full session since violence broke out in September 2000, with Gazans prevented from attending by Israeli closures. For the past two years, only about 30 or so members have been able to attend, and sessions have often resorted to video-conferencing and telephone calls. Tough, ain't it? Maybe they should consider whether it's to their advantage to have people exploding all over the place?
Wajih Yaghi, a 13th lawmaker to whom Israel denied permission to travel Sunday, died more than two years ago, Palestinian officials said. Well, why'd he want to go then?
Palestinians need Israeli permission to leave Gaza and to travel through Israel to the West Bank. Israeli authorities decide according to a person's security background whether to grant the permit. Sounds like good sense to me...
"I packed your bag for your trip to Ramallah, honey. Your toothbrush and razor are in your shaving kit, in the black bag, and your clean shirts are in the blue one. Your dynamite belt's in the gray Samsonite, with your grenades."
``Israel by this has proved to the world that they are working to sabotage the Palestinian political process and political institutions,'' said Kamal Sharafi, one of the barred Gazan legislators. ``We are representatives of our people, elected by the people and we have the full right to attend the session.'' Ummm... Aren't the Paleos "proving to the world" that they're homicidal lunatics if their legislators can't be trusted not to blow up or gun down a couple busloads of people? Or am I missing something?
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Unidentified gunmen shot and killed three Muslim women Sunday on a beach in Indonesia's Maluku province, setting off a riot that killed a Christian in the provincial capital. The violence is the latest in a series of clashes between Muslims and Christians that have rendered a February peace accord largely meaningless. I think we predicted something of the sort at the time. Didn't take a crystal ball to do so, either, since the Laskar Jihad gunnies refused to join the talks...
The three women apparently were bathing in the sea when they were shot on the island of Saparua, police Lt. Edi Watimena told The Associated Press from Maluku's provincial capital, Ambon. Watimena refused to comment on initial military reports the victims had been decapitated. Muslim women bathing in the sea? And then somebody cut their heads off? Sounds more like some devout Muslim heroes happened to be passing by when one of them showed a lascivious naked elbow or even (horrors!) a titty...
Apparently in reaction, a Muslim mob torched a minivan carrying Christians in Ambon, Watimena said. One person was burned to death and two others injured before police dispersed the rioters. Fairly typical reaction...
The February peace accord has failed to stop the violence and the province's Christian and Muslim populations, which are roughly equal, now live in separate communities. The Maluku archipelago was known as the Spice Islands during Dutch colonial times. Now it's just a disgrace. It's a pretty vivid warning for all those places in Europe — and the USA — that are extending hospitality to Muslims leaving their own rathole countries, though. That's what's a head for all the places where they're forming their enclaves...
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Is torching a minivan filled with Christians in Ambon sort of like being hanged in effigy? More importantly, is this kind of retaliation prescribed by the Koran?
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Im pretty sure the Koran says nothing about mini-vans, but don't quote me on that.
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