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| MAP: Fundamentalist Muslims are the source of 98% of the world’s conflicts! |
| 2004-06-23 |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #25 therien> Feel free, but what'd be the difference? You already mocked me in #21 when I commented on something Balkan, so I'm quite sure you'll also do it when I comment on something American. I don't comment on American internal issues *that* often anyway. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-24 11:20:48 AM |
| #24 kudos Mark! Reminds of P.J. O'Rourke's "Holidays In Hell" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-24 11:05:56 AM |
| #23 Sarcasm aside, Aris, do you mind if I call down on you and mock you the next time you comment on anything American because as a foreigner, you can't possibly know what you're talking about? |
| Posted by: therien 2004-06-24 10:45:35 AM |
| #22 Therien> I'm sure you know much more than I do, about the role of religion in modern-day Balkan politics. That was sarcasm btw. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-24 8:16:33 AM |
| #21 Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with the tensions between Greeks and Turks (whether in Cyprus or in the Aegean) -- and I believe it also has nothing to do with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. That's OK, dude, you can ignore hundreds of years of Ghazi's (I suggest you look it up) clamoring at the gates of Southeastern Europe in the name of expanding Islam through conquest, and also ignore the very long memories of many Western nations, which presumably excludes that of Greece. For someone who claims to be a starving student, you don't seem to read or work much. |
| Posted by: therien 2004-06-24 2:36:16 AM |
| #20 Mark, a new RB classic! Hilarious! |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-06-24 12:04:15 AM |
| #19 Mark - LOL ! ! ! I love it! But you forgot my favorite - North Korea ! Home of Bark and Grass soup! (Yeah, I know its not Islamic...) And Jen, you are right, Arab muslims are 'holier' then non-arab muslims. I think the Koran mentions that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-06-23 11:59:06 PM |
| #18 Akris Catshit, Jen seems to be in a constant state of seething against me. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-23 11:55:27 PM |
| #17 Evidently Ivory costs conflict . . . |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-06-23 10:58:13 PM |
| #16 Akris Catshit, in this case, yes, RC means black. It's becoming very clear that Arabs are extremely rascist about black people, even fellow black Muslims. Read Arab News sometimes if you want to see what "kind" of Muslims get beheaded as criminals in Saudi Arabia. And when the American Muslims had their conference in Chicago last summer, they wouldn't meet with the Nation of Islam Muslims who were meeting in Chicago also at the exact same time. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-06-23 10:52:13 PM |
| #15 I thought the context made it clear. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-23 10:49:06 PM |
| #14 And by African, we probably mean "black". :-) |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-23 10:45:39 PM |
| #13 There are also Christians and animists caught up in the Sudan mess. The Muslim-on-Muslim violence is Arab against African. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-23 10:16:12 PM |
| #12 Isn't Darfur Arab on African violence? (All parties essentially muslim) |
| Posted by: RussSchultz 2004-06-23 9:50:46 PM |
| #11 That really was priceless, Mark. You have an uncanny insight into the travel industry. Thanks for taking the time to make us all laugh. Best Wishes, |
| Posted by: Traveller 2004-06-23 9:49:57 PM |
| #10 :) |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-06-23 9:48:18 PM |
| #9 ROFLMAO, Mark! That's priceless. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-23 9:37:58 PM |
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| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-06-23 8:38:40 PM |
| #7 Thinking Aris is right again, looking more like 62.3%. The rest seem to be kickball related. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-23 8:02:51 PM |
| #6 As another sidenote: Thanks. I had been looking for a semi-decent map that depicted Huntington's view on the different "civilisations". |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-23 8:00:31 PM |
| #5 muck4doo...to quote a great urban philosopher: "I got 99 problems, but that bitch aint one." JayZ |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-06-23 7:58:28 PM |
| #4 ima wonder if they are involve the turf wars in los angeles. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-06-23 7:56:00 PM |
| #3 The map is misleading in part, which makes the title wrong. The most obvious example of that to me is that fundamentalist Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with the tensions between Greeks and Turks (whether in Cyprus or in the Aegean) -- and I believe it also has nothing to do with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It's also noteworthy that the map ignores those conflicts that don't have to do with Muslims of any sort -- like Nepal, or the separatist Basques in Spain, the catholic/protestant thing in Northern Ireland, or the separatists in Eastern Orthodox Georgia and Transnister in Moldavia. But other than that, yes, fundamentalist Muslims are indeed currently the source of *most* the world conflicts. But "98%" is a hyperbole. As a sidenote it'd probably have been better if you had linked to this: http://hasbara.us/flatto_charon/the_enemies_of_the_world.htm rather than the image directly. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-23 7:53:04 PM |
| #2 This was very helpful in planning where NOT to vacation! : ) |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-06-23 7:44:40 PM |
| #1 Curious. There is no geographic mention of the United States. Wonder why? |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-06-23 7:39:51 PM |