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Sri Lanka rejects Israel rescuers
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Posted on 12/28/2004 11:01:55 AM PST by JeffersonRepublic.com

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To: monkeywrench

Don't count on it... No virgins to be had...


41 posted on 12/28/2004 11:55:42 AM PST by Almab
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

This is the day in 81 we flew into Colombo's airport, about 30 miles outside the city itself

42 posted on 12/28/2004 11:57:20 AM PST by RaceBannon (Jesus: Born of the Jews, through the Jews, for the sins of the World!)
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To: Howlin
Doesn't Israel have a crack search and rescue team?

Yes -- the very same one that had planes on the tarmac and ready to fly here on 9/11, but were turned down for fear of offending our Muslim "allies."

43 posted on 12/28/2004 12:01:56 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

We such, too, then.


44 posted on 12/28/2004 12:03:53 PM PST by Howlin (Annoy a liberal; tell everybody you see Merry Christmas!)
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To: Howlin

Yes, we do. I'd like to believe it's the State Dept's fault.


45 posted on 12/28/2004 12:05:03 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: Howlin

Well, as someone with whom I was on the phone a few minutes ago pointed out, we didn't need them anyway, as we had more than enough people here to do the job.


46 posted on 12/28/2004 12:09:36 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com
A lot of people are forgetting that heads were being chopped off and Christians terrorized in these very same countries that are now begging for aid earlier in the week of the quake.

Probably had to move the weapons out of the same mosques they are now using as shelter just to make room.

47 posted on 12/28/2004 12:18:18 PM PST by EUPHORIC (Right? Left? Read Ecclesiastes 10:2 for a definition. The Bible knows all about it!)
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com
Sri Lanka Ambassador Diffa Digeratna is quoted by Jerusalem Post as saying that the change was due to the "the lack of accommodations in Colombo".

Did they make all the other countries that are sending aid send "skeleton crews" because of "the lack of accomodations in Colombo"?

48 posted on 12/28/2004 12:21:34 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

This reinforces my theory about some Muslims. Like far left CRATS, some are brain dead.


49 posted on 12/28/2004 12:25:48 PM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Publius6961
what is the religious composition of Sri Lanka?

Sri Lanka has been involved in a religious civil war for over twenty years, Hindus vs Buddhists. You have to figure that this is one hellish place to have militant Buddhist.
50 posted on 12/28/2004 12:28:49 PM PST by redheadtoo
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To: lormand
"Good point. I'm willing to bet that all countries hit by this disaster will reject Israeli help."

Not Thailand or India. Funny how most of the countries involved are Muslim, but most of the donors are non Muslim. That pretty much sums up all anyone needs to know about the Muslim religion.
51 posted on 12/28/2004 12:57:38 PM PST by monday
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To: redheadtoo

The Sri Lankan Hindus basically invented the suicide bomber, and were then copied by the Palestinians.


52 posted on 12/28/2004 1:08:55 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

MILITANT BUDDHISM may sound like a contradiction in terms, especially while Islamic holy war is hogging the headlines. Nevertheless, in one of its periodic flare-ups in Sri Lanka, extremist Buddhist nationalism is threatening both the physical safety and the legal rights of that nation's Christian minority.

For purposes of comparison, consider: Sri Lanka is witnessing attacks on Christians at a rate far higher than the much noted wave of anti-Semitic violence in France. While church burnings and assaults on pastors and congregations have been mounting since the late 1990s, they apparently reached a crescendo early this year.

In the first four months of 2004, there were 44 assaults on churches in Sri Lanka, according to the tally maintained by Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Compass Direct, a wire service specializing in news of Christians who are persecuted for their faith, reports similar figures. Since Sri Lanka has about the population of Texas (20 million), this is the equivalent of 44 minority houses of worship--say, 44 mosques--being fire bombed or vandalized in that state in the space of four months.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/468rruhe.asp


53 posted on 12/28/2004 1:54:11 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Logical me
This reinforces my theory about some Muslims. Like far left CRATS, some are brain dead.

What are you talking about? What Muslims?

54 posted on 12/28/2004 1:56:56 PM PST by steve86
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To: Peach

you have mail


56 posted on 12/28/2004 2:03:48 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Jimmy Carter: Minutiae expert.)
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To: prairiebreeze

You too.


57 posted on 12/28/2004 2:14:40 PM PST by Peach
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To: NYC GOP Chick

"Doesn't Israel have a crack search and rescue team?

Yes -- the very same one that had planes on the tarmac and ready to fly here on 9/11, but were turned down for fear of offending our Muslim "allies.""

They weren't turn down for fear of offending our "Muslim allies" bozo. If you don't remember, we didn't need their medical teams because there was NO! surviors on 9-11.


58 posted on 12/28/2004 2:16:39 PM PST by JeffersonRepublic.com (The 51st state is right around the corner.)
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To: Betaille

Looks like God hit Islam right up side the head. Now they are asking for more.


59 posted on 12/28/2004 2:37:31 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
That's compassion for you! Ideology blinds better than pitch black!
60 posted on 12/28/2004 3:46:52 PM PST by Chieftain (Thank you Swift Boat Veterans/POWs/Vietnam Veterans for Truth - you did it for ALL your brothers!)
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