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Sticky wicket in Koran story
Washington Times ^ | 5/23/2005 | Steyn

Posted on 05/23/2005 7:40:59 AM PDT by worldclass

Christians don't riot over derogatory references to Christ and other provocations by incontinent "artists." Jews take it in their stride when they're described as "a virus resembling AIDS," which is what Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris said a week ago in his sermon on Palestinian state TV, funded by the European Union. Muslims can dish it out big-time, so why can't they take it, even the teensy-weensiest bit?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: carrotnstickputindia; india; islam; israel; newsweek; pakistan; steyn
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"In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar: two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes isolated from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs "

That about says it for me.

1 posted on 05/23/2005 7:41:00 AM PDT by worldclass
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To: worldclass

Well said! LOL


2 posted on 05/23/2005 7:43:59 AM PDT by raivyn (I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you're running from them -George Carlin)
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To: worldclass

All from single terrorist parent households.


3 posted on 05/23/2005 7:46:33 AM PDT by mict42
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To: worldclass
Muslims can dish it out big-time, so why can't they take it, even the teensy-weensiest bit?

Could it be that deep down they realize that Muhammad's role as savior of mankind is bogus?

4 posted on 05/23/2005 7:50:24 AM PDT by Marauder (Politicians use words the way a squid uses ink.)
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To: worldclass; Cornpone
Muslims can dish it out big-time, so why can't they take it, even the teensy-weensiest bit?

Why can't they take it? Well I'll tell you why- because we suck up to them big time. Look at all the apologies rolling out already. When we placate these devils, we reap what we sow.

The old saying goes- Spare the rod, spoil the child.

Dhimmitude is real. Let's fight it.

5 posted on 05/23/2005 7:51:23 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: worldclass

What came to mind was that these people need very little to "start a riot", and the reason is that they are uneducated. Women obviously will be decades behind in establishing themselves in Muslim society, and the uneducated masses use a magazine article as a reason " to kill each other" However, what would they do if you built them some schools? Blow them up of course.


6 posted on 05/23/2005 7:53:25 AM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: worldclass

It's pretty simple:

Hold a BOOK with unwashed hands = Rioting.

Slice someone's head off = Crickets.


7 posted on 05/23/2005 7:57:15 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: raivyn

I really wonder if there was true freedom of religion and thought in the Arab/Muslim world.....how many would remain Muslim. Fear and ignorance is par for the course in this part of the world.


8 posted on 05/23/2005 7:57:16 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (Catholic school survivor and proud of it.)
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To: worldclass

"Watching the media circle the wagons around the beleaguered Mr. Isikoff this week, Martin Peretz of the New Republic described them as "a profession that is complacent, self-righteous, and hopelessly in love with itself." "

How true!


(I had no idea the part that Imran Khan played in this.)


9 posted on 05/23/2005 7:59:27 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: worldclass

ROTFL!


10 posted on 05/23/2005 8:01:27 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: nuconvert

I loved the AlGore envir-friendly toilet comment. That would have taken at least 950 flushes to get that book down.


11 posted on 05/23/2005 8:02:40 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (If you can read this thank a teacher... since it's in English, thank an American Soldier!)
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To: worldclass
The best line in the article, if you ask me:

In October 2001, Faizal Aqtub Siddiqi, president-general of the International Muslims Organization, warned that the bombing of Afghanistan would create 1,000 bin Ladens. In April 2003, Egypt's President Mubarak warned the bombing of Iraq would create 100 bin Ladens.

So right there you had a 90 percent reduction in the bin Laden creation program — just by bombing a second country.

LOL.

12 posted on 05/23/2005 8:04:47 AM PDT by Pete
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The whole defense of the korappy koran is based in hysteria and fanatical outburst and only demonstrates the weakness of the philosophy of its cult. The korappy koran is simply the muzzie's justification of their abuse of women. They are such weaklings they cannot control their women without the korappy koran. It justifies their cowardice, their deceit and dishonest. The korappy koran is the drivel which supports a death cult. I've got a copy of the korappy koran which I use to urinate upon. When it rots from the acid and the heat of the sun I'll replace it with another.

I fully support our troops adding bacon bits to each filthy muslim corpse.

13 posted on 05/23/2005 8:08:24 AM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: worldclass

so why can't they take it, even the teensy-weensiest bit?


Because deep down they know that while their religion doesn't bring them any closer to God, it has kept them slaves for centuries and that is a bitter pill to swallow.


14 posted on 05/23/2005 8:11:27 AM PDT by freedomfiter2
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To: worldclass

And in Western, civillized scoiety, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. In this case, they resell it as oil.


15 posted on 05/23/2005 8:38:49 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: CIDKauf

"Women obviously will be decades behind in establishing themselves in Muslim society..."

Women civilize men. These women are powerless, so their men remain uncivilized.


16 posted on 05/23/2005 8:48:45 AM PDT by keats5
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To: CIDKauf

"However, what would they do if you built them some schools? Blow them up of course."

We ARE building schools for them. When you hear of them blowing them all up, let us know. (I expect a terrorist elements might do so, but not the majority of people)


17 posted on 05/23/2005 8:51:15 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: keats5

Good thought, Keats. And true, too.


18 posted on 05/23/2005 9:04:47 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: worldclass
why can't they take it, even the teensy-weensiest bit?

History's biggest inferiority complex?

That whole honor/guilt tribal thing?

19 posted on 05/23/2005 9:05:14 AM PDT by siunevada
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If you are still dealing with "Klans and Tribes" there seems to be little hope for any advancement. Stoneage society mentality??


20 posted on 05/23/2005 10:02:28 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (tor)
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