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It'd be O.K. if they watched the world go by or warred with one another. However, there is Wahhabism--Khomeinism; in other words islamic terrorism. Little has been contributed to the world for 1200 years.
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They are running a dysfunctional operating system. Until they can install something better and reboot, they are pretty much stuck where they are. I loved the mindset in this comment from the article:
The facts contradict your hypothesis since the Arab Moslem Empire was at one time the leader in all fields globally.
Yeah, that's nice, but what have you done in the last half a millennium?
#11
Algebra, Medicine and philosophy were the most developed in the world about 1200 years ago by Arab speaking scholars and Moslem believers
I call Bull$#it on this. I've seen this touted year after year and it is crap. Most everything they had came from the cultures and dhimmis they conquered. They not only live in the past, they live in their fantasy-land version of it.
#12
AlanC, the big change is fraking. We don't need their oil. Without oil the Arab world is equal to Africa on the world stage. It may take time of course. But the question is, would the Arab world reform and diversify their economies or would they just assume Allah will provide?.
#2
See, that's the diff between them and us. The recruiting sergeant guaranteed I'd be crapping in the woods and that there was a war on and I might be in it. Said I'd get in shape. I've been in shape and I figured what that meant.
No paradise. Free clothes, though.
There is an analogy in various folks in the Thirties who actually believed the homegrown parlor pinks and took their families to the USSR. Some returned, most ended up in labor camps.
Filters out the most gullible, I suppose.
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-bangs forehead a few times-
Buried in the story, dumbass wants to live the islamic life, moves to islamic paradise, and gets evicted because he does not want to fight and kill.
[Saudi Gazette] Pak TV channels are showing Boom Boom Afridi asking his viewers in Urdu and Pashto whether they would prefer crutches or a bat for their children. In fact this message is for hundreds of thousands of Pak Pashtuns and Afghani refugees living in tribal areas and elsewhere, who are reluctant, or to put it another way, have refused to permit their children to be vaccinated against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... . It is estimated that over 250,000 children in tribal areas alone will not be vaccinated this year.
The Taliban are going all out to convince a large number of tribal Pashtuns that the polio vaccine is being administrated on behalf of the West with the objective of sterilizing their children.
To counter this false propaganda, the UN has nominated Shahid Afridi, himself a Pashtun from Khyber tribal agency, as Polio Champion for this cricket-crazy nation.
Whether Shahid will be able to convince his people, only time will tell.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... things appear to be more difficult this year as some of the tribal commanders who generally do not fight with the Pakistain Army, such as Mullah Nazir and Hafiz Gul Bahadur, have also banned vaccination in areas under their control.
They have made stopping the drone attacks a condition for permitting polio vaccination in their areas. I wish someone would tell these Taliban capos that they are intentionally risking the lives of thousands of their innocent children. Unfortunately, we are trapped in an anti-West fever, and no one should be surprised if there is a sharp increase in the number of polio cases in Pakistain. One fears that this virus, if not controlled at this stage, could spill over to other countries. Pakistain, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the three unfortunate countries where polio vaccination campaigns have been hampered by self-appointed religious reformers (in the case of Pakistain and Afghanistan, it's the Taliban and in Nigeria, it's the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... who have stopped the vaccination program).
This is a failure on the part of government, civil society, religious scholars and the media who are lagging behind in this fight against ignorance and darkness.
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The taliban know we care more about their children than they do. It's a weakness they exploit.
Can't wait for an army of children, each armed with a grenade and told they're going to heaven, to assault a US position. What a mess, especially for the US troops afterwards.
Wretchard once suggested the Islamists might think of forcing us to do something we simply won't do. Use of kids is not out of the question, is it?
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I believe the Iranians did this during their war with Iraq.
#3
bman.
KOrect. But the kids were sent against Iraqis who, as has been frequently noted, are Muslim. Didn't seem to mind. Nor, for that matter, get much bad press in the west for slaughtering kids. Neither side did. I'm thinking there's a principle at work here. If I could just get a couple of minutes without interruption, I could probably figure out what it is.
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my vietnam vet friend saw all the shit, but can't shake the image of the kid he might have killed.
[Saudi Gazette] While most of the media's attention is focused on Syria, the state of the euro or the US presidential elections, very little is being said about state sponsored ethnic cleansing in Myanmar or Burma. Perhaps it is because the unfortunate victims happen to be Mohammedans and there are no strategic gains to be garnered by allying with them.
Ten Burmese Mohammedans on their way to a spiritual place of worship last month were attacked by a large number of Rakhine Buddhists who butchered and killed them with knives. Five others escaped. One man from the village where the attack took place said a mob of ethnic Rakhines set upon the bus carrying the pilgrims and carried out the massacre.
"More than a hundred people beat and killed those people. The residents even torched the bus," he said, adding that the police arrived but were unable to control the baying crowd. "There are not many people at the scene now, only dead bodies on the road. The senior town residents are trying to comfort the people," the man added. The Rakhine Buddhists are also threatening Mohammedans from the other towns of Rakhine state with the same fate.
There was a lot of fanfare and noise by the West on the repressions by the military regime against its people. The pressure by Western governments intensified in the form of sanctions against the regime which resulted in the generals allowing a small amount of democracy to creep in.
This also brought notable Burmese activists working for democracy such as Aung San Suu Kyi to the front pages and television screens and calls for the continued democratization of the country. Amidst this fanfare of publicity, the plight of the minority Mohammedans somehow failed to attract any headlines or generate any sanctions.
A government statement following the massacre of the Mohammedans last month which was published in the New Light of Myanmar added more fuel to the burning embers when it warned against "anarchic and lawless" acts, but referred to the victims as "kalar" (blackie), a racial slur used for persons of Indian appearance.
Dozens of people marched in Yangon to protest growing anti-Mohammedan violence and accused the government of stoking the flames of sectarian tensions. Political leaders and civil society groups appealed for calm and called on the government to issue an apology.
"The newspapers should not stoke this conflict. Are they trying to suggest that one race is more violent than another?" said an MP from the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party. The state media has since issued a retraction for the use of racially offensive language in its official appeal for calm and urged readers to refer to the victims as "Islamic residents".
In the past, the Nobel Prize winner and democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy have gone to great lengths to avoid discussing the country's Mohammedan minority, especially the Rohingyas, for fear of alienating many of their supporters. But following the brutal slayings, which was one more chapter of targeted violence against the Mohammedan minority, she was compelled to speak out.
Finally breaking her silence, she joined the fray in the debate by calling for the perpetrators to be held to account in accordance with the rule of law. She added that "the majority of the people in a society should have sympathy for the minority."
"Maybe some people would not like me saying this but I have to say what I must say regardless of whether they like it or not. When you are the majority in a society, then you are the strong party. If you are strong then you must be generous and sympathetic. I would like to see all people in Burma get along with each other regardless of their religion and ethnicity."
This pattern of violence against the Mohammedan minority should be brought to light. The safety and security of all minorities in any society must be guaranteed.
World governments and international human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organizations that were so focused on the democratization of the Burmese in the past must now focus their attention on saving one of the country's minorities in the present.
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"on their way to a spiritual place of worship"
An ammo dump? Bomb testing range?
Perhaps a location with a stash of child dolls they can practice beheading?
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Notice that when the victims are Xtians or Hindu and the perps are Muzzies you never hear this kind of wailing. No "threat of extinction" rhetoric, just a boys will be boys attitude.
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