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With the U.S. commander in Afghanistan being a former career Special Forces guy, you can expect some new thinking. The first major change was to listen to the troops, especially the brigade and battalion level intel specialists, who collect local information and pass it up the line.
For years, the word has been that the "Taliban resurgence" is nothing more than another drug gang ploy to keep anyone from interfering with the manufacture and shipment of heroin (plus some opium and morphine) out of the country.
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Lot's of nice sociology buzz words - some of it is even true. But the bottom line is because Islam encourages it. Infidels are fair game.
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oops - supposed to be on the Muslim Yout article.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Saydee and four others were sued on charge of war crimes with Pirojpur chief judicial magistrate's court yesterday.
Judge Rafiqul Islam ordered officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station to take up the case. Manik Poshari, son of late Saijuddin Poshari of Chitholia village in Sadar upazila, filed the case. Other accused in the case are Mohsin, Momin Hawlader, Hakim Qari, and Sobahan Hawlader. Manik Poshari in the case said Saydee and four other accused along with Pakistani army men stormed into their house at about 3:00pm on May 8, 1971 and the accused persons not finding them looted their house and set it on fire. They also handed over their caretaker Ibrahim to the Pakistani army to kill him. Later, the case statement says, the Pakistani army personnel shot Ibrahim dead at Parerhat Bandar.
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Total surrender. The book is about the Danish cartoons that sparked such a fuss in 2006. Even classic Persian images and such were banned by the pusillanimous fools at Yale University Press.
FEARLESS SCHOLARSHIP: Yale removes Mohammed cartoons from book about Mohammed cartoons.
Yale, if you recall, granted admission to the Taliban spokesperson.
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Another demonstration by the elite coastie crowd that Academic Freedom is just another myth they hide behind simply to preserve their power. Put this next to their Hate Speech regulations they employ to silence contrarian (ie non-soc ialist) views.
[Dawn] The government told the National Assembly on Tuesday it had asked provinces to keep a watch on the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba group, which is accused of fomenting recent violence in the Punjab province's Jhang and Gojra towns.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik acknowledged there was a lot of truth in concern voiced by an opposition lawmaker from Jhang who said the government must act against the extremist religious group to avoid the kind of situation it had to face in Swat valley of the North West Frontier Province after Taliban rebels were allowed to thrive there.
The minister said it was a fact that Sipah-i-Sahaba had had been involved in terrorist activities in the past and added: 'The provincial governments have been asked to keep a watch on its activities.'
PML-Q member Sheikh Waqqas Akram said Sipah-i-Sahaba activities were going on in Punjab unchecked by both the provincial and federal goverments and urged the PPP-led ruling coalition: 'For God's sake, you take things seriously.'
He said it had taken a struggle of some 15 years at a cost of hundreds of lives to subdue religious extremists in his Jhang district who were known for fomenting sectarian violence, and complained that 'under a conspiracy these elements have been given an opportunity to make mischief again', without specifying by whom.
The member said all of some 200 Sipah-i-Sahaba activists arrested in Jhang after a judge took a suo motu notice of the July 21 violence were later released 'one by one' and that he learned during a visit to Gojra that members of the same group attacked Christians in Gojra for unproven blasphemy, burning seven of them alive.
'Don't leave us at the mercy of these Maulvis,' Mr Akram said in an appeal to the government.
He expressed his surprise that a leader of the group had been allowed to address the arrested group activists in jail and to go around the country without regard to what he called restrictions for banned organisations.
The interior minister said although two religious teachers had led processions from two Sipah-i-Sahaba mosques that engaged in Gojra violence, but said 'we must wait for a report of inquiry being conducted by a high court judge'.
He acknowledged that under the existing rules and regulations the provincial governments were 'supposed to monitor' the banned groups, whose present number he put at 29.
A PML-N member from Multan district, Rana Mahmood-ul-Hassan, called for a joint action by the Punjab and Sindh police to check what he called heavily armed outlaws who he said kidnapped some 150 people for ransom, including 37 from his district, over the past few months.
PPP chief whip and Labour and Manpower Minister Khurshid Ahmed Shah said the ruling coalition would ask the interior ministry and the two provincial governments to take notice of the situation in which the member said the kidnappers would seek refuge in Sindh when pursued by the Punjab police and cross back into Punjab when chased by Sindh police.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The government has decided to restructure the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to make it more efficient and vibrant.
An interesting, if disturbing, concept.
The effort that is already underway would bring energetic and more dedicated personnel into the fold of the agency who could live up to the challenges of the modern age. As part of the endeavour 32 officers of brigadier and colonel ranks have been retired from the ISI and it is expected that other officers who have not proved their utility would be shown the door further down the line in the months to come. The outfit is also being trimmed in the manner the Army was restructured three years ago without compromising its skill to defend the motherland.
Well placed sources in the Ministry of Defence told The News that the ISI was expanded in recent years out of proportion, especially the officers who on the verge of superannuation joined the agency and subsequently secured agreement to continue with it. The practice expanded the agency in terms of number without enhancing its tangible capacity. Keeping in view the situation, various departments of the agency were asked to offer their comments about the working of the officers who had attained the superannuation and were still working with it but without putting in anything useful with regard to the assignments given to them. Such officers were a burden on the organisation and ultimately it was decided that such officers should be asked to relinquish their duties forthwith, the sources added.
The sources revealed that the retrenchment process in the ISI would continue for at least two more years but it would be carried out in an extremely careful manner so that the working of the agency did not suffer in any way. The incumbent leadership of the armed forces and the agency are fully cognizant of the quality of the force and particularly the requirements of the men on sensitive jobs. The officers who have been shown the door were given due esteem on their parting the organization, the sources added.
To a question the sources brushed aside any impression about the involvement of any pressure from any side while dealing with the process of streamlining the working of the agency. "No-one could think in terms of exerting pressure with the incumbent command of the armed forces," the sources said.
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Pak Gov't overthrown by "popular" uprising in 10....9....
[Dawn] A military spokesman denied a recent report that militants have attacked Pakistan's nuclear facilities three times in two years, saying Wednesday there is 'absolutely no chance' the country's atomic weapons could fall into terrorist hands.
"Pshaw! Perish the thought!"
Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said an article written by a UK-based security expert was false because none of the bases named actually had any nuclear facilities. 'It is factually incorrect,' he said.
Taliban militants' brief takeover of areas some 60 miles from the capital, Islamabad, raised new fears about the security of Pakistan's atomic weapons being seized by extremists linked to al-Qaeda, although the country insists its arsenal is secure.
Shaun Gregory, a professor at Bradford University's Pakistan Security Research Unit, wrote that several militant attacks have already hit military bases where nuclear components are secretly stored. The article appeared in the July newsletter of the Combating Terrorism Center of the US Military Academy at West Point.
The most recent assault, he wrote, was the August 2008 coordinated suicide bombings of the Wah Cantonment ordnance factory, which he said is considered one of Pakistan's main nuclear weapons assembly sites. The other two attacks were in late 2007 on the Sargodha air base, which Gregory identified as a nuclear missile storage facility and the nuclear air base at Kamra, the article said.
While all three suicide attacks appeared aimed at causing maximum carnage and not seizing weapons, Gregory said they highlighted the vulnerability of the nuclear storage facilities to assault. 'The risk of the transfer of nuclear weapons, weapons components or nuclear expertise to terrorists in Pakistan is genuine.'
Abbas said Wednesday that none of the military bases named were used to store atomic weapons. He said the Wah ordnance factory makes small arms ammunition, Kamra is an air force facility and Sargodha is an air force ammunition dump for conventional weapons. 'These are nowhere close to any nuclear facility,' he said.
He added that the Pentagon has recently expressed faith in Pakistan's security measures, which among other things keep weapons components and triggering devices separate.
Khalid Kidwai, head of the Strategic Plans Division which handles Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, told journalists last year that Pakistan uses 10,000 soldiers to keep the weapons safe and has received up to $10 million in US assistance to enhance security. 'We are very confident that the security standards that we are following are world-standard,' Abbas said. 'There is absolutely no chance of them falling into the hands of any extremists or terrorists.'
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For once i believe the Pakis as the ISI control their militants and if any disobey they try to kill them eg.Baitullah Mehsud.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A new magazine in Iraq's Kurdistan region has caused furore among conservative Muslims with a rousing call for Jews to leave Israel -- and come back to Iraq.
The magazine, "Israel-Kurd," is the brainchild of Dawood Baghestani, the 62-year-old former chief of the autonomous northern region's human rights commission.
The glossy, full-color monthly in Kurdish and English has a lofty mission: to help solve the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict by convincing more than 150,000 Kurdish Jews living in Israel to return to Iraqi Kurdistan, Baghestani told AFP.
" If the situation in our new federal and democratic Iraq, and particularly in Kurdistan, becomes stable, then many Jews would want to return and reduce the number of Jewish settlements in Palestine "
Dawood Baghestani, magazine founder
"The biggest reason behind the complexity of the Palestinian problem is the unjust practices of Arab regimes against the Jews -- there are more than 1.5 million Jews originally from Arab countries in Israel," Baghestani said. "If the Jews had not been subject to an exodus, the Palestinians wouldn't have been either," he said, referring to the flight of 700,000 Palestinians from the newly created Jewish state in 1948 during the first Arab-Israeli war.
"If the situation in our new federal and democratic Iraq, and particularly in Kurdistan, becomes stable, then many Jews would want to return and reduce the number of Jewish settlements in Palestine."
The latest edition of the 52-page magazine, which has a circulation of around 1,500 copies, features a woman draped in an Israeli flag on the cover.
Inside are stories about Kurdish Jewish traditions and photographs from the first half of the twentieth century, as well as arguments on how a return of Jews would help to build a wealthy and strong Kurdistan.
Suspicious
" The Kurds are part of the Muslim nation, and Kurdistan is part of Iraq "
Zana Rustayi, Islamist Jamaa Islamiya
But many people in Iraq are not buying the argument. "I'm suspicious. I don't see the point of this kind of publication," said Zana Rustayi, a representative of the Islamist Jamaa Islamiya party in the regional assembly. "The Kurds are part of the Muslim nation, and Kurdistan is part of Iraq."
Iraq has no relations with Israel, and the country was an implacable foe of the Jewish state under the regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein, who was overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
A Sunni member of parliament in Baghdad, Mithal Alusi, was suspended from parliament and threatened with charges last year after visiting Israel for a conference. The decision was later overturned by the constitutional court.
Kurdistan does have a warmer history with the Jewish state, however. Many of the current crop of Kurdish leaders have visited Israel in past decades.
Jews lived in Kurdistan for centuries, working as traders, farmers and artisans. But the creation of Israel and the rise of Arab nationalism in the mid-twentieth century dramatically altered the situation, spurring most of Kurdistan's Jews to leave.
Baghestani -- who has been to Israel four times, including on a clandestine trip in 1967 -- denies that he works for the Israelis. "What I am asking for is enshrined in the constitution: every Iraqi has the right to return to one's homeland. Jews who were Iraqi citizens were subject to injustice," he said.
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Kurdish Jews urged to return to Iraq
Idiots if they do.
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The Jews were expelled from Iraq, they didn't just happen to wander away over the horizon. (Information here about the Arab expulsions following the establishment of Israel in 1948. Perhaps some will come back -- after all, one Israeli went to live in Afghanistan. But more likely they'll just go to visit the old homestead and establish business connections. Besides, however well meant, the invitation is insulting. "Come back because staying in Israel is mean to the Palestinians, our brother Muslims."
Ma'an - Prime Minister Dr Salam Fayyad hosted 29 members of the United States House of Representatives at his office in Ramallah on Wednesday.
The visit followed a 29-member Republican delegation that toured the area last week, sponsored by an Israel lobby group.
Fayyad briefed the delegation on what he said was recent progress by the Palestinian National Authority on security and the economy. The prime minister stressed that every effort was being made by his government to establish an independent Palestinian state.
For their part, the lawmakers stressed US President Barack Obama's vision for a two-state solution and reiterated the American leader's determination to get back to direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
Both parties reportedly agreed that the only way forward included a halt in settlement activities, while Fayyad insisted that frequent Israeli invasions into areas allegedly under the control of the Palestinian Authority must come to an end, along with the siege on Gaza.
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Ma'an - France congratulated Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on his re-election as head of Fatah's Central Committee on 8 August, and later sent a statement "emphasiz[ing] its full confidence in President Abbas's ability to lead the Palestinian people in its search for peace."
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner telephoned Mahmoud Abbas to congratulate him as early as Saturday 8 August, a statement from the ministry said, adding Abbas' leadership goals marked the "only possible way of achieving fair and lasting peace in the Middle East."
The statement further urged "all the parties to honor the obligations they have undertaken vis-à-vis the international community without further delay, in order to facilitate the resumption of peace negotiations at the earliest opportunity."
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Ma'an - Elections Committee Chair Ahmad Sayyad announced the final results of the Fatah Central Committee, confirming a 19-member leading body and announcing new numbers for the votes of seven elected members.
The announcement followed two days of counting and re-counting, with Fatah officials releasing preliminary results Monday, confirming them Tuesday, then announcing a tie, with Abbas' aide and Secretary General of the Palestinian Presidency At-Tayyib Abdul Rahim as having gained 16th place, he was number 19 with 637 votes on first count.
In the final re-count, requested by ousted former member of the committee Ahmad Qureia, Abdul Rahim remained in 16th place, with the would-be bumped Shtayeh ending in a tie with formerly 17th place Fatah member Abbas Zaki. The number of appointed members was reduced to three, following the announcement of the expanded number from elections.
Results are listed below with numbers changed from the preliminary announcement changed in bold.
Following the announcement of the latest results, Sayyid noted, "as head of the elections committee I hereby announce the official results as supervised by President Abbas, and with the acknowledgement of Presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeineh said that the elections were free, clear and so accurate."
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[ADN Kronos] The Palestinian captors of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit rejected media reports of progress on a prisoner exchange with Israel on Wednesday. According to the Palestinian news site, Maan, the spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees armed wing, Abu Mujahid, said "Israeli media are trying to publish misleading reports."
At the same time, the Israeli daily, Haaretz, cited a Hamas official who said Israel would yield to the demands the Islamic group had made in order to release Shalit.
Mohammed al-Ghoul, the Hamas minister for prisoners' affairs, said "the Israeli occupation will soon surrender to the conditions that we have outlined for the release of Gilad Shalit."
According to al-Ghoul, Israel will release the Palestinian prisoners whose names appear on a list Hamas has passed to Egyptian officials.
In return for Shalit's freedom, the Palestinians want Israel to release 1,400 prisoners, including 450 who are serving life sentences, among them women, and children.
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His second wife's family, anyway. The thoughts of the families of any other wives, or of his own, presumably beloved, silver-haired parents, remain unknown.
[Straits Times] THE Malaysian family of Noordin Mohammed Top have washed their hands of the terrorist mastermind, saying he deserted his wife and three children years ago, a report said on Wednesday.
'My son-in-law is more of a problem than anything else,' Noordin's father-in-law Rusdi Hamid said according to the New Straits Times. 'Whatever happens, happens. We have left his fate to Allah,' he said as the family awaited the results of DNA tests to determine whether a militant killed in a weekend raid in Indonesia was his son-in-law.
Indonesian police said on Wednesday that the tests showed the slain man was not Noordin, one of Asia's most wanted men who is accused of planning July 17 hotel bombings in Jakarta as well as a string of other attacks.
'Even if he is dead, it would not leave an impact on the family. After all, he left us for eight years without saying a word,' said Mr Rusdi.
The 67-year-old told the daily he was pleased when Noordin asked for permission to marry his daughter, as he had a good reputation in their village where he was the principal of a religious school. But in 2001, Mr Rusdi said he abruptly left the village in southern Malaysia without leaving any money to support his wife and three young children - the children are now aged 10, nine and eight years.
'My duty now is to look after my daughter and her three children. Whatever happens to Noordin, I leave it to God.' 'The whole world is looking for him. I don't think I will ever see him again. I don't even know what to say to him if I did,' he reportedly said.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] As mass trials in Iran hint at opposition's alleged links with the West, defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi says the biggest lie is to incorporate the nation's desire for "reform" with foreign agendas.
In a meeting with Reformist figures on Wednesday, Mousavi said none of the concerned members of the revolution thought they would see the day that Iran witnessed the recent tragedy that erupted in the aftermath of the election.
The presidential candidate, who suffered a crushing defeat to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a disputed election, added that no one wished a day when "lies after lies" were required to validate a 'fraudulent' election, the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported.
"The biggest lie of all is to attach the natural aspiration of the [Iranian] people for reform to foreigners," added the former prime minister, who served under the founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The June 12 vote sparked massive demonstrations by supporters of Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, another defeated candidate, who protested against the election result.
Although the Guardian Council, the body tasked with overseeing elections, has ruled that the 10th presidential poll was the "healthiest" vote in 30 years, Mousavi and his supporters continue to defy its results.
Meanwhile, Iranian authorities have moved to try some 200 opposition figures, protesters and journalists as well as those who are charged with espionage and having possible links with Britain and France.
The opposition, however, has slammed the mass trials as "sham", and urged the release of some 300 people who remain in custody.
Mousavi on Wednesday questioned state TV's decision to air the hearing sessions of the "show trials" and claimed the move only served the interests of foreigners.
"What serves the interests of foreigners: the people's protest movement which falls under the framework of the Constitution... or show trials where children of the Revolution are seated next to the hated Monafeqins [anti-Iran terrorists]?" he asked.
"Which one serves the interests of the United States and Britain?"
In an allusion to reports of prisoner abuse following the post-vote events, Mousavi said, "What happens in Iran's prisons these days clearly shows the necessity of a deep change in the country."
The reports of sexual abuse in Iran's prisons have been denied by the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Larijani.
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Toss me off Mousavi, given, I do not like you either. You still have 30,000 people to account for. They are not here now. I have long memory.
Failing in decades of indirect peace talks with Syria, Israel is now seeking to reach a comprehensive peace treaty with Damascus through direct negotiations.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Wednesday that under the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel will not resume Turkish-mediated peace talks with Syria.
"We have enormous respect and great appreciation for the Turkish efforts. But they have not succeeded - not because of the Turks," Danny Ayalon told Reuters, accusing Syria of intransigence.
"We have just benefited from the experience that shows that proximity talks have not worked," Ayalon added.
"If they [Syria] are really serious about achieving peace, and not just a peace process, which may serve them to extricate themselves from international isolation, if they are really serious, they will come and sit with us."
Last year, Israel and Syria held four rounds of indirect talks to reach a comprehensive peace agreement through Turkish mediators.
However, Syria formally suspended the talks in protest at Israel's three-week-long offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which left about 1,400 Palestinians dead at the turn of the year.
Israel has so far refused to heed Damascus' precondition for resumption of peace talks.
Syria -- favoring indirect talks with Israel -- has repeatedly said that it will resume peace talks with Tel Aviv only after a full Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured following the 1967 Six-Day War. Israel and Syria have officially been at war since then.
Israeli officials have so far refused to leave Golan Heights, saying the plateau is too strategically important to be returned. Golan Heights gives Israel access to the Sea of Galilee -- Israel's main source of fresh water.
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After ten years in the job, Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi will be officially replaced by Mohammad Sadeq Larijani in four days' time.
Senior officials, including parliamentarians, will attend a ceremony on August 15 at the Judiciary's main reception hall to mark Shahroudi's departure and the introduction of his successor Larijani, Mehr news agency reported.
This is while earlier reports, citing several lawmakers, had said the handing-over ceremony would be held on the August 16.
Hujjatolislam Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, 48, is currently a politician cleric and a member of the Guardian Council - a 12-member supervisory body tasked with overseeing parliamentary legislations and supervision of elections.
He is also one of the five brothers of Iran's current Speaker of the Majlis (Iran's parliament) Ali Larijani. Another Larijani brother - Mohammad Javad - heads the Judiciary's human rights department.
Mohammad Sadeq Larijani also has a two-time membership of Assembly of Experts of the Leadership, an elected body that picks the leader of the Islamic Revolution, oversees his activities and has the power to remove him.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Egypt has denied reports claiming that the country's president has congratulated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his disputed re-election.
The website of the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran said on Tuesday that the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, congratulated his Iranian counterpart over his re-election.
In a written message, Mubarak praised the victory of Ahmadinejad in the 10th presidential election, the Iranian president's website said.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki, however, told Radiofarda on Wednesday that he could not confirm the authenticity of the report. He did not elaborate on the issue.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] After speaker of Iran's Parliament dismissed reports that protesters were 'raped' in detention, a spokesman for Mehdi Karroubi says he will present evidence on the matter.
Leading opposition figure Karroubi claims that he has received reports from former military commanders and other senior officials that male and female prisoners were brutally 'raped' by their jailers to the point of "physical and mental damage."
After calling for a probe, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani moved to defuse the controversy on Wednesday by denying reports of 'jail rape' in the aftermath of the country's post-vote unrest.
"The issue of detainees being sexually abused is a lie," Larijani told an open session of Parliament. "On the basis of thorough and comprehensive investigations conducted about the detainees at Kahrizak and Evin prisons, no cases of rape and sexual abuse were found."
The Majlis speaker encouraged the defeated presidential candidate to come forward with evidence proving his claims.
If Karroubi could present evidence of such outrages, then Majlis would investigate them, Larijani asserted.
The proposal was welcomed by Karroubi's National Confidence Party (Etemad-e-Melli).
Esmail Gerami Moqaddam, the party's spokesman, said the former presidential candidate's "knowledge about the issue goes much further from mere word of mouth."
Gerami-Moqaddam claimed that Karroubi would definitely provide evidence to validate the reports of 'jail rape.'
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That's easy, Islamic Brainwashing that they're "Superior" to all others, so go and take what's rightfully yours.
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Psychology Today had an article that said basically Polygamy is probably a factor. It didn't mention Islam, but it did mention that in most Polygamous society the women would rather share the few wealthy men rather than deal with one with few prospects. So you're not getting laid and they promise you all those virgins? What seems moronic on the face seems to be a good deal for the believer.
Of course that doesn't really explain the youts that have already moved to western nations. For them I think Redneck Jim nails it.
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It's not jsut the lack of possible wives, but growing up in intimate proximity to lots of females one isn't really related to, females competing for the sexual and emotional attention of the husband/father. This leads, in my untutored opinion, to a very, very unhealthy emotional atmosphere... and we won't even think about the problems of casual molestation of male and female children by those who should be protecting them.
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"and we won't even think about the problems of casual molestation of male and female children by those who should be protecting them'
I do think that's behind (no pun intended) a LOT of the moslem "yout" behavior, tw. The girls might act that way too if they had the freedom of movement the boys have. :-(
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So explain Iran etc..
The comments here make way more sense then the CNN article.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Dawn] A military spokesman denied a recent report that militants have attacked Pakistan's nuclear facilities three times in two years, saying Wednesday there is 'absolutely no chance' the country's atomic weapons could fall into terrorist hands.
