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2007-05-31 India-Pakistan

Pakistan among 10 least peaceful countries

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Posted by Fred 2007-05-31 13:20|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 So where's Gaza on this list, or can't they count that high?

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-31 14:40|| 2007-05-31 14:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder how the new Tourism Minister is reconciling this ? Islamabad, the paradise you can't afford to pass up !

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-31 15:23|| 2007-05-31 15:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Top 10: Norway is number one in the index, New Zealand number two, Denmark number three, Ireland number four, Japan number five, Finland number six, Sweden number seven, Canada number eight, Portugal number nine and Austria number 10.

Bottom 10: Angola is number 112, Ivory Coast 113, Lebanon 114, Pakistan 115, Colombia 116, Nigeria 117, Russia 118, Israel 119, Sudan 120 and Iraq 121.

So, let's do the math and see where Muslims are causing a majority of the grief (see bolded countries above). Wotta big effin' surprise! Nearly half of these twenty countries are being assailed by Islamic terrorism and violence. Go figure.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-31 16:04|| 2007-05-31 16:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The Global Peace Index, published a week before a Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, rates 121 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe on factors including levels of violence, organised crime and military expenditure.

I'm sure that one of the reasons the US is so close to the bottom is its level of military spending, not levels of violence or orgnized crime. The open border to the south is also responsible for much of the violence and organized crime. I'd like to see a side-by-side comparison between all countries, listing number of murders, robberies, rapes, assaults, arrests per 100,000, convictions per 100,000, number of estimated organized crime networks (Russia would have to have a separate annex for that), amount per capita spent for police and fire protection, and amount per capita spent for military preparedness and operations. Then we could compare apples with apples, and oranges with oranges, instead of this giant fruit salad "approved by the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former US president Jimmy Carter and US economist Joseph Stiglitz".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-05-31 18:03|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-05-31 18:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Hitler's Germany was very peaceful vis a vis "crime" 1933-1945....

Posted by borgboy2001 2007-05-31 21:14|| 2007-05-31 21:14|| Front Page Top

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