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2003-11-30 Arabia

Prince Talal afraid Soddy Arabia will be partitioned

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-30 18:44|| || Front Page|| [14 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well Prince since your country attacked and annexed the "eastern provinces" from Bahrain, you have it coming. I am waiting for such a partition Inshallah

Posted by Muslim 2003-11-30 7:04:27 PM|| 2003-11-30 7:04:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Reminds me of the (true) story of a Soviet general who asked a german prisoner what he thought about the future of Germany. "I think Germany will be cut in many small pieces". "Not Germany, Germans" was the answer of the general.

Posted by JFM 2003-11-30 7:11:25 PM|| 2003-11-30 7:11:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Is the fatwa a game? Does this mean that you can issue a fatwa to shed the blood of people? How many victims fell after they issued these fatwas? How many men, women and children died because of these fatwas?

Where the asshats issuing these Fatwas are taken seriously, these little numbers have been deadly packets.

In the Free Cyber-Space of Rantburg, Fatwas have been an obsession and a source of innocent merriment.

Prince Talal's fear of partition of Saudi Arabia is a bit mild. I think others are using terms, such as "drawn and quartered," to better describe the proposed process.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-30 7:22:48 PM|| 2003-11-30 7:22:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 AP - I've had many rather nasty thoughts about how to deal with the Soddies over the last few years, most of which were brutal, ugly, and mean. Problem is, I don't think any of them would have any lasting effect except on the immediate victim. The problem is going to be to change the hearts and minds of not only the Soddies, but of most of the Arab world and its border provinces. Unfortunately, we can't build a wall (a la Israel) to contain them all, so we have to be more inventive. To date, I haven't come up with anything that would work on a large enough portion of the population. In the meantime, we'll just have to be content with the tried and true methods of just blowing the living sh$$ out of them. I'm open for ideas and suggestions for other approaches, but they have to at least be equally as effective as "eliminating the mind eliminates the problem".

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-30 8:42:28 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-30 8:42:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 OP, the royals need to undergo a pogrom against the learned clerics that, up till now, have held sway. Once that process is done they can remake the religion into one that is less radicalized. But the current generation is lost. Ignorant people are easily lead. They will believe anything. Off the current leadership and the followers. The royals can save their asses not with the status-quo.

Posted by Lucky 2003-11-30 9:18:44 PM|| 2003-11-30 9:18:44 PM|| Front Page Top

plans to partition the region

One can only hope! Soon.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-11-30 11:34:26 PM|| 2003-11-30 11:34:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 this guy wants the nasty clerics put on trial. Sounds like a guy with a sense of cause and effect - is he one of the more sensible royals, I ask the Saudi experts here? And it sounds to me like he is seizing on the partition threat as a club against those royals who think the status quo is acceptable.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-12-1 11:07:41 AM|| 2003-12-1 11:07:41 AM|| Front Page Top

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