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2005-11-18 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-11-18 14:13|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of my favorite songs: "Duelling Fatwas" [cue the banjos].

Posted by xbalanke 2005-11-18 14:35|| 2005-11-18 14:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "Squeal like a pig ..." - No, that can't be right

Posted by Cleagum Cheagum1422 2005-11-18 14:44|| 2005-11-18 14:44|| Front Page Top

#3 whatever works.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-18 14:52|| 2005-11-18 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 The NU has instructed all of its boarding schools (pesantren) and preachers, as well as its affiliated groups, to explain to the public that terrorism is not a legitimate form of Jihad, because "the enemy and the victims are too random,"

This is just a way of saying "sometimes you kill Muslims, and that's bad". I don't see it rejecting violence in the name of Islam AT ALL.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-18 14:59|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-18 14:59|| Front Page Top

#5 This fatwa is useless and will happily be ignored.

This is popular myth gets repeated here uncritically.

".. a consequence of the American behaviour in Iraq and Afghanistan and the treatment of the Palestinians,"

Islamic aggression predated the existence of the US and Israel by centuries. You can't gloss over historical facts an blame the US and Israel for a single bit of Islamic agression.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-11-18 16:23|| 2005-11-18 16:23|| Front Page Top

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