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President To Nominate Muslim As UN Ambasador
Drudge Report ^ | 1/4/07 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 01/04/2007 1:20:23 PM PST by jamese777

PRESIDENT BUSH WILL NOMINATE ZALMAY KHALILZAD -- AN AFGHAN MUSLIM CURRENTLY SERVING AS AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ -- AS THE NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., ABC NEWS IS REPORTING... DEVELOPING...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ambassador; goodmuslim; ignorance; islam; khalilzad; kneedjerkers; nukemecca; pitchforkers; religionofpeace; rop; un
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To: CJ Wolf

see post 22


181 posted on 01/04/2007 2:38:14 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (doing the unexpected throws your adversary off)
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To: pissant

Excellent qualifications, and being a Muslim in our dealings with Muslim countries is a cherry on top.

My Bush opinion meter goes up a notch.


182 posted on 01/04/2007 2:38:50 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: You Dirty Rats

Jihad includes other methods besides terrorism.


183 posted on 01/04/2007 2:39:23 PM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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To: zimdog
Wouldn't the north be more probable to be Muslim (being closer to northern Sudan and Arabia), whereas the south is closer to Christian or animist southern Sudan and Kenya (though there is Muslim Somalia, too)?
184 posted on 01/04/2007 2:40:02 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( WND, NewsMax, Townhall.com, and Drudge Report are not valid news sources.)
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To: zook
Count me as one muslim terrorist hater!

Another lib professor who's a legend in his own mind it seems.

185 posted on 01/04/2007 2:42:08 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
The island was taken over to expand Spanish territory--though evangelizing to the natives did have a role.

It was part of the Reconquista's expansion of "Christian Spain":

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two

And Spain expelled each single Jew

And almost every Muslim too

186 posted on 01/04/2007 2:42:15 PM PST by zimdog
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To: Kathy in Calif
Intimidation is not terrorism? One of the main definitions of terrorism is intimidation. Terrorism doesn't have to be violent, often the threat of violence is terrorism. Do you think that an attack on our government computer systems wouldn't be terrorism?

True, intimidation is an ingredient in terrorism. But intimidation alone is not terrorism. Terrorism's unique aspect is it's random, extreme violence. The terrorist makes his point with actual violent acts (bombs, beheadings, hijackings, etc.) Those acts combine to create powerful intimidation, to be sure, but there are plenty of other intimidation techniques that are not terrorism.

If intimidation alone was terrorism, we would have to label most middle school gym teachers terorrists!

That said, I do think some of the KKK's crimes were terroristic. Burning churches and midnight lynchings would certainly qualify, IMO. But, again, even the KKK can't hold a candle to the number and frequency of Islamist attacks on innocent victims.

187 posted on 01/04/2007 2:43:04 PM PST by TChris (We scoff at honor and are shocked to find traitors among us. - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Wouldn't the north be more probable to be Muslim (being closer to northern Sudan and Arabia), whereas the south is closer to Christian or animist southern Sudan and Kenya (though there is Muslim Somalia, too)?

Perhaps, but that's not the case.

188 posted on 01/04/2007 2:43:10 PM PST by zimdog
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To: Last Laugh
It was SPAIN that did that, ie the Spaniards.

I never said it wasn't.

That is why the Mexican People speak Spanish and not English.

Because the Spanish conquest killed off the native population of "Hispañola"/Ayiti?

190 posted on 01/04/2007 2:45:20 PM PST by zimdog
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To: RockinRight

You have explained your views reasonably and calmly. I do not believe you are a bigot, you make excellent points. :)


191 posted on 01/04/2007 2:46:11 PM PST by Last Laugh (We the People are in charge, so let's act like it!)
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To: oneamericanvoice; CJ Wolf
comment 22 was to CJ Wolf.
192 posted on 01/04/2007 2:46:57 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( WND, NewsMax, Townhall.com, and Drudge Report are not valid news sources.)
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