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2003-04-14 India-Pakistan

America will disintegrate soon, Ch.Shujat Hussain

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-14 08:39 pm|| || Front Page|| [14 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, Mr. Hussain, you can rant and rave, but here is one of the main reasons your country is such a disfunctional shithole. Look at the different country's literacy rates, courtesy of the 2002 CIA World Factbook:

LITERACY: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
PAKISTAN
total population: 42.7%
male: 55.3%
female: 29% (1998)

IRAQ
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 58%
male: 70.7%
female: 45% (1995 est.)

TURKEY
total population: 85%
male: 94%
female: 77% (2000)

ISRAEL
total population: 95%
male: 97%
female: 93% (1992 est.)

USA
male: 97%
female: 97% (1979 est.)
total population: 97%

Less rantin' and more readin'---like me pap used to say...........

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-14 20:58:49|| 2003-04-14 20:58:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Alright Baghdad Bob, come on out, we know it's you in there.

Posted by g wiz 2003-04-14 21:18:47|| 2003-04-14 21:18:47|| Front Page Top

#3 "...stone laying ceremony...
Was that a headstone?

Posted by PD 2003-04-14 21:21:19|| 2003-04-14 21:21:19|| Front Page Top

#4 *holds up card* 7.4 Link was not permanent, and so points were deducted due to inablity to verify if promising statements (responsibility to strengthen routs of democracy) were truly the work of the speaker and not due to incompetent translation or editing.

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-14 21:36:03|| [cwc.c6d7.com] 2003-04-14 21:36:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Paul, what does your book say about India? (out of which Pak sprung) The craphole you're referring to is really the whole subcontinent. There is less respect for human life (depending upon the caste) in India than Pak. Not exonerating Pak. If the state there is sponsoring terrorism, fry 'em.
But both countries are trying to emerge from centuries of cultural horror that their respective religions have caused. (when in India in '92, I had a bishop tell me that to this day, NO major public works project happens without a human sacrifice, a paper in Bombay said there were 700 unclaimed bodies in the railyards the last WEEK [probably suicides - next atavar or whatever] and both countries kill missionaries and converts regularly.
Like Paul Harvey says, "It's not one world".
I have a bit more grace for Pak than say Syria or Iran. They've both had significantly more civilization, we should expect better from them.

Posted by Scott 2003-04-14 21:49:37|| 2003-04-14 21:49:37|| Front Page Top

#6 This rant, plus several others I've read lately, prove unequvocally that there's a major problem in the Middle East. These people live in Cloud Cuckoo land. They really don't have a clue what the United States is about, what's going on in this nation, and how it all fits within our kind of government. They're making some pretty stupid decisions because they're being fed a bunch of propaganda from the Arab press, the "Arab street", and most of all, from the Muslim "leadership". That leaves 'em kinda hanging out to dry when they run across the REAL US.

The other side of the same problem is the lies they're told about their 'superiority'. After a few dozen years of that, they begin to believe it, regardless of the lack of any real success in anything other than killing one another.

It's gonna take a looooooonnnnnngggg time to get this bunch back to reality, I'm afraid.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-14 21:50:44|| 2003-04-14 21:50:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Scott---

INDIA
total population: 52%
male: 65.5%
female: 37.7% (1995 est.)

There is web access to the CIA world factbook. Here is the link:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Old Patriot---India is not much better, as far as literacy goes. All of these countries in the area have a great mass of people that get very emotional but have no tempering of the emotions with judgement. There is just no or little connection. Then you have the religious fanatics that feed the fire with gas. Somehow one must start with good schooling, teaching rational and critical thinking. And who is gonna start that off in Iraq, Pakland, Syria? This will be the biggest nut to crack in straightening out the middle east. Maybe an analogy of the middle ages with the church and the scientists and the plagues. In the middle ages, the church held much of the power. But the plagues came and the church was helpless, so the heritic scientists and their art were allowed to do their thing. Maybe the middle east needs to really bottom out with ranting and jihad and Islamists before they can climb back up again. I sure do not see the moderate Muslims standing up and showing the way, most of the time.....

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-14 23:48:39|| 2003-04-14 23:48:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Just goes to show ya,you probably won't see either of those countries represented with Regis on Who Wants to be a Millionare.

Posted by Brew 2003-04-15 00:52:12|| 2003-04-15 00:52:12|| Front Page Top

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