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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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To: F14 Pilot
Kristoff does some very nice reporting here - and some very idiotic commentary at the end. Perhaps his one good column for the year?
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:43:39 AM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: F14 Pilot
"America is only Baby Satan. We have Big Satan right here at home."
LOL!
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:47:20 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ...( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: ovrtaxt
Agreed!
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posted on
05/12/2004 5:23:41 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: Bahbah
Hey, we could get rid of Islam completely in 25 years... just let the Islamic world have Islamic government in the meantime!
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posted on
05/12/2004 5:30:20 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(This comment was witty and interesting up until the moment I hit "Post")
To: thoughtomator
LOL, that's a very good thought, omator.
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posted on
05/12/2004 5:31:41 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: Paul_B
"Kristoff does some very nice reporting here - and some very idiotic commentary at the end. Perhaps his one good column for the year?"
No. He's pretty much a left-wing idiot. I've never read even one of his columns that was truly worth reading. Kristoff replaced the NYT's Anthony Lewis (who's "At Home Abroad" column was simply a piece of crap) about two years ago. I'd say that Kristoff is even worse than Lewis.
To: Poundstone
I don't disagree, based on what I've read by Kristoff, but this column was refreshingly good for him until he added tried to apply the situation in Iran to the situation here. Islamic culture in many ways is the mirror image of the West, and very generally what's bad there is good here and vice versa - a distinction the brain-dead post-modernists fail to make.
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posted on
05/12/2004 5:52:24 AM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: F14 Pilot
"This regime is the very opposite of Islamic government."Think again, Ashkan.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:04:15 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(My parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents were all Democrats. My children are Republicans.)
To: F14 Pilot
"We had reports here and there that people of Iran, mostly youth generation, are converting to Christianity or Zoroastrianism."That, of course, is what Iran needs--a powerful, sweeping religious counter-revolution. Anything would be better than what they've got now.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:09:55 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(My parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents were all Democrats. My children are Republicans.)
To: Savage Beast; RaceBannon
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:15:45 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: Savage Beast
This is my take on what that guy, Ashkan, said above.
Islamic form of government is not good for sure and it is a theocratic thing but to some people there in the Middle East, real Islam is different with what their governments offer now.
I think, he meant that Islamic Regime of Iran is far away from real Islam.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:19:26 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: F14 Pilot
Taken in this context, "real Islam" is not Islam at all but some other religion--perhaps Christianity.
The Islamic regime of Iran is Islam. The goal of Islam is the establishment of a world-wide theocracy with the Koran as the only constitution and the shariah as international law, i.e. the Islamic regime of Iran on a global level.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:31:15 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(My parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents were all Democrats. My children are Republicans.)
To: Savage Beast
I was talking about the Middle East and how they believe.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:45:25 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: ovrtaxt
The author is a jerk. But even jerks can be right sometimes.
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To: F14 Pilot
Iran is starting to resemble Cuba. We keep hearing "pretty soon" and all we get is status quo.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:47:22 AM PDT
by
ThanhPhero
(Ong lam hanh huong di La Vang)
To: ThanhPhero
You're right - in fact it may take 5 years or more, but it'll eventually happen - no one knows how or when but it will.
No one is doubting the will part, but the when part is the question.
And it better be before the Mullahs get a hold of the nukes - otherwise they're there to stay.
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