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Overdosing on Islam
The NY Times ^
| May 12, 2004
| NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Posted on 05/12/2004 3:14:47 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
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Bush 2004 FOR A FREE MIDDLE EAST, FOR A SAFER AMERICA
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:14:48 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
To: All
Spread the word about our Pro-American friends in IRAN!
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:16:29 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: F14 Pilot
"It has made Islam unpopular."
There is a whole bundle of things that are making Islam unpopular.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:18:30 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: F14 Pilot
So the Islamic Republic is increasingly vulnerable to the most devastating accusation of all:
that it is un-Islamic and is alienating its youth from Islam. The mullahs have even made beards unpopular.
Well, that would be a start.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:21:17 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Rummy's job is winning the war, not micro-managing some damn prison.)
To: onyx; nuconvert; freedom44; McGavin999; AdmSmith
"How can you have hope for life any more?" said Abdullah Erfani, a plumber, adding, "If there were a free vote, 99 percent would oppose this system, and only the 1 percent within the system would support it." That is great!
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:23:15 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: onyx; SusanTK
We had reports here and there that people of Iran, mostly youth generation, are converting to Christianity or Zoroastrianism.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:24:53 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: F14 Pilot
Then they "can" make it happen.
I'm all for overthrowing the regime.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:25:06 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Rummy's job is winning the war, not micro-managing some damn prison.)
To: F14 Pilot
Ooh, that was weird. That last paragraph was pretty forced. I couldn't figure out where the author got that bizarre twist, then I scrolled up- NY Times.
Mystery solved.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:25:28 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(Forget ANWR -- Drill Israel!)
To: F14 Pilot
check out www.bibleleague.org . They smuggle Bibles into Islamic and Commie countries. A very cool ministry that I support, and many times you can designate the country.
I just paid for 100 Bibles to Iraq last month.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:28:35 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(Forget ANWR -- Drill Israel!)
To: ovrtaxt
LOL!
Mystery solved.
BINGO.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:29:03 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Rummy's job is winning the war, not micro-managing some damn prison.)
To: ovrtaxt
You might be true but no one has the right to force religious ideas into people's lives. And moreover Religion and State are divided apart from each other here and in any other free and democratic country, Right?
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:31:04 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: F14 Pilot
"How can you have hope for life any more?" said Abdullah Erfani, a plumber, adding, "If there were a free vote, 99 percent would oppose this system, and only the 1 percent within the system would support it." Frankly, this can be said about a whole lot of liberal "peoples'" government.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:35:20 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad.")
To: onyx
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:38:23 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: F14 Pilot
I know you care deeply about Iran.
I want to see it free too.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:40:07 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Rummy's job is winning the war, not micro-managing some damn prison.)
To: F14 Pilot
Growing up on the east coast in the '70s, there were a large number of moderate Iranians in college and industry.
Then the Shah fell, the Ayatollah took power, and things went to hell in a handbasket.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:46:31 AM PDT
by
djf
To: ovrtaxt
I did the exact thing. It seems the NYT just can't help itself. Thet print something 1/4-way intelligent and then ruin it with the most ignorant and idiotic "moral lesson" at the end.
I wish the NYT would send their reports back to school to learn something about Christians. Their complete lack of knowledge on such an old and important subject is incredibly embarrassing for them and a real turn-off for the reader.
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posted on
05/12/2004 3:46:52 AM PDT
by
whereasandsoforth
(tagged for migratory purposes only)
To: whereasandsoforth
I wish the NYT would send their reports back to school to learn something about Christians....
and American history....
What?? And have them lose thier "objectivity"?
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:08:49 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad.")
To: F14 Pilot
Right. But the author's attempt to equate Bush with an Iranian ayatollah is ludicrous!
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:23:42 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(Forget ANWR -- Drill Israel!)
To: ovrtaxt
Yes, Ayatollah George Bush, shoving Methodism down our throats.
What idiots these people are.
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:29:05 AM PDT
by
jocon307
(The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: F14 Pilot
One of the reasons for the unpopularity of the Islamic Republic is that the economy has gone down the sewer since the Shah was toppled. Even during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, they had a huge under- and unemployment problem -- about 25% unemployment and an equal number underemployed. This is comparable to what the US suffered during the worse years in the Depression. I don't know what the statistic is now, but I doubt that it has improved.
Ironically enough, one of the reasons for the popularity of extreme Islam in Saudi Arabia (extreme by even Saudi standards) is the same phenomenon of widespread under- and unemployment.
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