Posted on 12/02/2008 7:40:33 PM PST by GOPGuide
Name anyIslamic country where a Muslim can convert fromIslam to any other religion LEGALLY? Can you name any?
Thanks for posting. Very interesting thread. Thanks Robert Spencer. BTTT!
Islam is totally incompatible with Western civilization. Inviting them is only asking for trouble.
As has been pointed out Sharia law is far more widespread than you are suggesting.
In addition the idea that poverty has anything to do with terrorism is a flat out lie. Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world, and yet we see little international terrorism from them. The far more wealthy middle east is the epicentre of terror. The terrorists themselves are usually middle class or very wealthy. Osama Bin Ladin was a millionaire not a poor Afghan goat herder.
The UAE was the center of the financing of the 911 attack, and Saudi Arabia, NOT Banglasdesh, was the recruiting ground for most of the attackers. Consistently the terrorists come the well-to-do, not the poor and downtrodden.
Yasir Arafat said he “visited a lot of places on vacations” as a tourist. “I was once very rich,” he said. “I used to go to Europe. I visited Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria.”
In addition, he said, “I had a pocketful of money, like any tourist, and I enjoyed myself. I was well on the way to being a millionaire,” Mr. Arafat said, but “I gave all my wealth to the revolution.”
Mohammed Atta studied architecture and he received his degree from Cairo University in 1990. Atta went on to study urban planning at a technical university in Hamburg. Later, he piloted the first plane that hit the twin towers on Sept. 11. Attas family owned a posh beach-front property in Egypt, and his two older sisters are a university lecturer and a doctor. His father was a lawyer.
As has been pointed out by someone who has traveled throughout the ME, that point is incorrect on Sharia being widespread. It is in fact simply nonsense
Your second point is correct though. Terrorists do exist in all classes in the middle east, from the ignorant poor who can be talked into suicide bombings, to some rich fool who feels that if he commits “martydom” he will wipe away the sins of drinking alcohol and having pre marital sex with blonde women while studying in Europe
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