Posted on 07/27/2005 1:03:11 PM PDT by churchillbuff
"If this is the result it would have been much better to keep Saddam in place."
Someone jokingly suggested that we release Sadam, apologize for killing his kids and walking away from Iraq. That doesn't look too bad now. I guess some people just like living in the 8th century. I propose that we settle the issue this way. The Islamo-Troglodytes agree to sell us their oil at market prices. We agree to block all TV radio and satellite transmissions to their sand boxes. In addition no western countries do business in muslim countries thereby minimizing foreign influence. They agree to stop all terrorist acts and to prevent their citizens from emigrating to the west. If they want to live like cavemen, let them.
There's plenty of institutionalized rape in Islamic fundamentalist countries
Yeah, in those countries it's called 'marriage'
That's the way it was done in Japan and it worked.
Why they cannot at least adopt our Bill of Rights if not a basic copy of our Constitution is beyond me. Freedom of religion, press and assembly - its a good start you idiot Iraqis! The youngest, most powerful, most free nation on Earth - a good example just sitting there awaiting emulation.
A TAPESTRY OF DECEIT. (SNIP)
Past myths are claimed today as historical fact in the mill of Muslim historical Revisionism. For example, in 683 CE Caliph Al-Walid built "Al Aksa" Mosque over a Christian church located on the Temple Mount, the site of the Jewish Temple, built by Solomon - 60 years after the death of Mohammed. Caliph Al-Walid named his Mosque "al Aksa" after a mythical dream that Mohammed supposedly had that: Mohammed flew to a place called ‘al Aksa’ (which means the ‘furthest place’) on his great white horse with wings, the breasts of a woman and the tail of a peacock. The word ‘al Aksa’ (as the ’furthest place’) referred either to Medina or the courtyards of Allah in Paradise. This was the rationale offered by true Arab scholars in attempting to explain the basis of a mythical dream supposedly experienced by Mohammed.
In 685-705 CE the Umayyad Caliph Abd-el Malik built the Dome of the Rock, also on the Temple Mount, Mount Moriah. (It is now called the "Golden Dome" after it was covered with gold by the King of Trans-Jordan.) This Caliph, who lived in Damascus, wished to be viewed as Mohammed’s heir. He attempted to re-direct the Islamic compass away from Mecca towards Jerusalem and his sphere of religious/political power. The political thrust of all this was that Islam continued to ignore Jerusalem as a non-entity and continued to worship toward Mecca. However, the myth was created among the (uneducated) Muslim/Arabs, that, by right of conquest, they owned the Temple of the Jews which existed as Solomon’s Temple of the Jews for thousands of years before Mohammed and Islam. However, the myth took root among the Muslims - as history was pushed aside...read more
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2003/sept/win1.htm
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