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Islamic world has impressive history of nonviolent resistance
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 07/10/15 | Stephen Zunes

Posted on 07/11/2015 6:09:37 PM PDT by artichokegrower

On these pages and elsewhere, commentators have periodically fed Western prejudices that Muslims are somehow inherently more violent than those of other faiths. They ignore the fact that, both historically and in recent decades, armed forces of the United States and European countries have killed far more Muslims than Muslims have killed Americans and Europeans. They also ignore the fact that virtually all the arms used in predominantly Muslim countries are manufactured in the United States and Europe and are transferred to the region by U.S. and European governments.

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To: artichokegrower
And... entertaining Christian Children who have lost their parents...


21 posted on 07/11/2015 6:36:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: artichokegrower
Just googled Steve....was *shocked* to find evidence strongly suggesting that he's a disciple of Saul Alinsky.
22 posted on 07/11/2015 6:36:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Secession;It's The Only Answer)
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To: artichokegrower

I got as far as “Santa Cruz”.


23 posted on 07/11/2015 6:38:19 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: UCANSEE2
Such nice people....


24 posted on 07/11/2015 6:44:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: artichokegrower

Yeah.

I think the last time a Muslim tried that was about 680 AD when Muhammad’s grandson Hussein ibn Ali surrendered after the Battle of Karbala.

Didn’t turn out too well for him.


25 posted on 07/11/2015 6:46:30 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: artichokegrower

Yeah cuz the russians never sell any weapons in the Middle east...or something.


26 posted on 07/11/2015 6:48:46 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: artichokegrower

Nice try.

Another in a large line of proofs that not much is required of modern newspaper reporters.

Islam is the definition of evil.


27 posted on 07/11/2015 6:57:06 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: artichokegrower

Ignoring history and especially ignoring current history means that this fellow is both ignorant and illiterate.


28 posted on 07/11/2015 6:57:12 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: artichokegrower

Santa Cruz Sentinel? Wow, I wonder how this paper of record, could have produced such an opinion? Amazing. The Santa Cruz Sentinel, right?


29 posted on 07/11/2015 7:01:23 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: VeniVidiVici

HO NOES!! Hes standing in front of Non Native....EUCALYPTUS TREES!!!
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a trraitor to the greenies!!

to me just another bay area dipstick


30 posted on 07/11/2015 7:15:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: artichokegrower

Interestingly enough the flapping of the good professor’s jaws as he mouths endless platitudes about “The Religion of Peace” won’t interfere with the decapitation process.


31 posted on 07/11/2015 7:32:04 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: artichokegrower

Remember that video from that Professor that said that over history Muslims had taken a million European Christians as slaves?


32 posted on 07/11/2015 8:06:24 PM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: DesertRhino

Even freakin Ghandi had to segregate away from them. Moslems suck, always have, always will.....................

Muzzys killed how many 100s of 1000s of Ghandi’s countrymen...albeit 100s of years b4 Ghandi.....

How many died building the Taj for the Muzzy ruler a few centuries ago?


33 posted on 07/11/2015 8:16:50 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: artichokegrower
have killed far more Muslims than Muslims have killed Americans and Europeans

Americans have more range time obviously.

The muslims have probably killed more people if you count other muslims. But islam is like that, religion of peace....a cemetery peace.

34 posted on 07/11/2015 8:25:25 PM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: artichokegrower
They ignore the fact that, both historically and in recent decades, armed forces of the United States and European countries have killed far more Muslims than Muslims have killed Americans and Europeans.

These idiots manage to ignore that the reason is that the US and European military haven't been in direct contact with the muslims for very long, and thankfully, don't believe in the idiotic belief that we should fight our enemies "fairly."

Something they are hiding in plain sight by carefully selecting their words is the fact that muslims have been happily slaughtering each other in muslim, african, and european lands for milenia.

Mark

35 posted on 07/11/2015 8:27:34 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: artichokegrower
They also ignore the fact that virtually all the arms used in predominantly Muslim countries are manufactured in the United States and Europe and are transferred to the region by U.S. and European governments.

Uhhhhhh, a question from the back of the FEMA re-education camp?

If mooselimbs are so peaceable, why do they buy so many arms from The Great Satan and Europe?

I'll see myself to the de-lousing shower.

36 posted on 07/11/2015 9:48:00 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: artichokegrower
Islamic world has impressive history of nonviolent resistance.

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37 posted on 07/11/2015 10:49:57 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: BenLurkin
United States and European countries have killed far more Muslims than Muslims have killed Americans and Europeans.
It wasn't for lack of the Muslims trying, Mr. Zunes.

And at Thermopylae The Greeks killed many more Persians than the Persians killed Greeks! Shame on those vicious Greeks!

Astounding insanity. Strangest of all, mental deficients like this fruitcake Zunes have yet to grasp the difference between offensive war and defensive war. The muslims have always been universally offensive, in every sense of the word.

38 posted on 07/11/2015 11:10:11 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: Crim
Yeah cuz the russians never sell any weapons in the Middle east...or something.

Most anarchists believe that the world's most common killing device, the AK-47, is manufactured in Alaska.

39 posted on 07/11/2015 11:16:47 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: artichokegrower
From the Bible about the seed of the muzzies:

He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Seems to back up the accuracy of the Bible and rebut Mr. Zunes' faulty recollections...

40 posted on 07/12/2015 3:51:23 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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