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Hatred and Violence: Other than oil, the Arab World doesn't produce much else.
National Review ^ | 09/30/2014 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 09/30/2014 6:48:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabworld; hatred; islam; violence

1 posted on 09/30/2014 6:48:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Which explains why Preezy Obola opposes oil exploration and production here in America.


2 posted on 09/30/2014 6:51:15 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even with oil, they can’t do that for themselves. They have to have Americans or Europeans come in and do the drilling, build refineries, etc.

Muslims are abject failures at everything except murder.


3 posted on 09/30/2014 6:53:18 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Islam does produce murder, terror, war, slavery, misogyny, child rape, and poverty.

So it’s not completely without accomplishments.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 6:58:11 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When Amnesty was granted 30 years ago, they promised to close the borders and enforce the law)
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To: stinkerpot65

The only thing they are talented at doing themselves, and perhaps a medical miracle, is in blood drives. They are able to produce thousands and thousands of pints of good quality blood. The Red Cross would be in hogs heaven in Iraq and Syria. Of course, they need some work in the collection process, getting it into plastic bags as opposed to on the ground, but hey... /s


5 posted on 09/30/2014 7:01:51 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: SeekAndFind

As I always say: If you take 50% of the population (females) OUT of the decision making process, your country will remain poor, backward, violent and vulnerable.


6 posted on 09/30/2014 7:10:11 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: SeekAndFind

bfl


7 posted on 09/30/2014 7:12:45 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: stinkerpot65

Exactly. I’ve always been amazed that they can’t even get oil by themselves. If it weren’t for the western world, they’d still be herding camels over unknown oil supplies.

As far as I know, its one of the easiest place in the world to extract oil - and they still need help with that.


8 posted on 09/30/2014 7:23:29 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: SeekAndFind

There are two major victim groups that practice hatred and live in substandard conditions. Both hate non-members. Both try to excuse their self-inflicted pathologies on non-members. Both practice a culture of anger, hatred and non-acheivement. Both are pitied and coddled by the left.


9 posted on 09/30/2014 7:29:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: lacrew

Yep, the oil is fairly shallow in the ground. I read once that it costs them only a couple of dollars per barrel to pump it out of the ground.


10 posted on 09/30/2014 7:30:50 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Consider why the US went from backwoods agrarian colonies to a world super power. It has everything to do with individuals having the freedom to pursue their dreams. We were the first nation of entrepreneurs. Look at the wealthy Arab states..they are all repressive societies where anything that some religious nut job might think is an insult to Islam is a crime


11 posted on 09/30/2014 7:33:06 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: SeekAndFind
It's important to note that the Arab world is *dying*. This all began during the 11th-12th Century with one man, who is today regarded as the second most influential Muslim after Mohammed himself. Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, better known as just Al-Ghazali or Algazel. He was a Persian scholar, which matters because Persia was intensely xenophobic, and this profoundly influenced him. He started by becoming very learned in classical Greek texts, before deciding that ALL knowledge outside of the Koran and its commentaries was false and just led men astray from their faith. That is, he was the first Muslim fundamentalist. His influence spread like metastatic cancer from Persia outward. And enormous destruction of scholarship, knowledge and learning followed in its wake. It took a while, of course, for Muslims to abandon secular learning and regress to a more primitive state, with the last gasp being the great libraries built in Muslim Spain, which they abandoned when they were forced to leave by the Christian Spanish. Which benefited the Spanish and Christendom immensely. Since then, the ummah has been paradoxical. That is, when Mohammed set up Islam, it was far more civilized than the barbarism that surrounded it. So it claimed the mantle of civilization and progress, which quickly petered out, because Mohammed had made the mistake of mandating technologies that soon became outdated. But more educated Muslims were able to work around this until al-Ghazali put an end to progress of any kind. The paradox is that Muslims still pretend that Islam is more civilized than, well, civilization, even though it runs circles around Islam's primitivism. It's been all downhill from there, punctuated with severe drops in recent times, from the likes of Wahhab (1703–1792), who created the extremely fundamentalist movement Wahhabism as a reaction to far more advanced and civilized European Christians, and then again with the Salafist movement in the latter half of the 19th Century. And these violent swine are not just barbaric, but demand primitivism to the point of acting like troglodytes, or violent chimpanzees. On the plus side, barbarism cannot coexist with civilization, and unless it can annihilate civilization, barbarism always loses. The reason for this is that unless barbarian leaders brutally force their subjects to remain on the side of barbarism, they will invariably "vote with their feet" to become civilized, because even uneducated people can eventually figure out that civilization is better. The last hope the Arab world had was in overpopulation forcing them on others. But even that is petering out, because few Arabs want more than two kids today. So there birthrate is stabilizing. Which will mean dropping, because they are an unhealthy lot. You know, medical science being bad and all. It's much better to fight infection through prayer and using a Koran as a pillow.
12 posted on 09/30/2014 8:04:24 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Arab world is mainly a Muslim world.

No further explanation required.


13 posted on 09/30/2014 8:35:22 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: SeekAndFind

Compare how much grain they import also, and where it originates. Their economies now depend on high oil receipts to subsidize their populations and retain stability. Anything to jeopardize shipping into the area could induce famine, a known factor to initiate civil warfare. Their own efforts feed only 25-50% of population.

AS an example, in recent years the Saudis floated a food purchase loan to Egypt, which had lost its tourist income. A population pegged at 84 million, self supporting 40 million with modern enhancements, but only able to subsistence farm for 4 million in the worst case scenario.

Not everyone has a Nile delta to work with thus are more dependent on the oil for food exchange to maintain control. Even the JV cannot rule effectively long term facing a starving populace, but in the short term could increase their support by favoritism.

In current news grain mills and storage were hit in air strikes recently, and though reported as mistaken targeting... I tend to wonder.


14 posted on 09/30/2014 8:39:06 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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“Islam does produce murder, terror, war, slavery, misogyny, child rape, and poverty.”

I believe you forgot the Muslim theological mandates regarding Muslim sexual intercourse with animals, and the assocaited Koranic commands regarding disposition of the animal once the Muslim is over its post-coital bliss and decides to dispose of the animal.

To the best of my knowledge, Islam is alone in its detailed theological treatment of this perversion.

Let us neither ignore, nor omit accomplishment, even Muslim accomplishments in actualization of theological aspects of Muslim indulging in goat/sheep/donkey sex.

Arguably, this is a unique Islamic accomplishment.


15 posted on 09/30/2014 9:34:52 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Ozark Tom

“In current news grain mills and storage were hit in air strikes recently, and though reported as mistaken targeting... I tend to wonder.”

I don’t.

Scorched earth works, with the proviso that it works slower in Muslim lands because Muslims are allowed by the Koran to cannibalize their enemies.

Once the grain is gone, the question is how long until the next to last Muslim has been eaten by the last Muslim?

Second question: After the second to last Muslim has been consumed, how long before the last one is sent to his 72 virgins, raisins, whatever?

Mr. Warthog wants to know.


16 posted on 09/30/2014 9:44:12 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: GladesGuru

“Muslim theological mandates regarding Muslim sexual intercourse with animals”

Do please document that, if you would be so kind. I would love to re-use it.


17 posted on 09/30/2014 9:56:50 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When Amnesty was granted 30 years ago, they promised to close the borders and enforce the law)
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