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"Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become one of their number. Allah does not guide the wrongdoers." (5:49, Quran)

"Mohammed is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another." (48:29, Quran)

"When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and pay the alms-tax, let them go their way. Allah is forgiving and merciful." (9:4, Quran)

1 posted on 10/19/2001 9:47:09 AM PDT by Pericles
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About 90 percent of Indonesia's 210 million people are Muslim. Islam in Indonesia is generally moderate and peaceful

The second statement is a contradiction of the first, apparently.

2 posted on 10/19/2001 9:50:11 AM PDT by browardchad
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You can quote barbaric passages from the Old and New Testaments too.

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." and "If a child shall curse his mother or his father, then that child shall surely die." are from Exodus.

The Judeao-Christian-Islamic religion has a dark side. No reason just to pick on the Islamic strain.

3 posted on 10/19/2001 9:58:13 AM PDT by Commie Basher
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Indonesians do not appear to be very grateful for the American boys who died freeing them from the Imperial Japanese Army.
4 posted on 10/19/2001 9:59:53 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
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''our blood is boiling,''

Not yet. But that can be arranged... you mignt not like it, though...

AB

6 posted on 10/19/2001 10:06:41 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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Wow, their women get to show their faces!
11 posted on 10/19/2001 10:14:44 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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Rueters/Yahoo appear to really be keen on this moslim protest stuff, although I do not know why.

I doubt Americans care much about the uninformed opinions of a bunch of ignorant water buffalo jockeys.

12 posted on 10/19/2001 10:15:48 AM PDT by skeeter
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AGAIN AND AGAIN, indivual mulims in vastly overwhelming numbers and all their nutty cleric demonstate that a "them versus us" philosophy is the product of the Koran, regardless of what their governments attempt to achieve.

By their actions they are demonstrating that a line exists in the sand between the Islamic evil-doer and his non-Muslim victim.

Bring back Richard Coeur d'Leon!!

13 posted on 10/19/2001 10:16:06 AM PDT by ZULU
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Whooo boy, was I ever a dumbass for wanting to take a consulting job there a few years back. Glad I didn't.
15 posted on 10/19/2001 10:19:52 AM PDT by Looking4Truth
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Do you think they'd like a few hand grenades to play with?
17 posted on 10/19/2001 10:23:18 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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Like it or not, the allegedly highjacked Islam of Bin Laden appears to have quite a following. They have decided, no matter what our President will say, that this is a war against Islam. Fine. Our enemies are defining the battle. We ignore their statements at our peril. We cannot put our heads in the sand and pretend that since we don't dislike them, they must reciprocate. THEY HATE US! We are facing hundreds of millions of angry Muslims. How do we intend to approach the problem? Placate them? Wage war? This problem is not going to go away on its own. We must face it head on.

I would put the Indonesian government on notice. Reign in your crazies or face our wrath. If not, we can expect Indonesian suicide bombers too.

18 posted on 10/19/2001 10:23:29 AM PDT by rebdov
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More than 10,000 Muslims, some singing ''our blood is boiling,''

Islam means "peace".

19 posted on 10/19/2001 10:24:07 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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``If we continue demonstrating, our country will become a poorer country,'' he warned. ``Many foreigners have left the country and the impact has been felt by our hotel industry and business community.''

Duhhhh!!!!

Civilized people generally don't go in for the shouting in the streets kind of stuff when they want to do business or take a holiday.

20 posted on 10/19/2001 10:24:15 AM PDT by Looking4Truth
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If their "blood is boiling," they need to take a cold shower.

As for all these so-called Clerics, they are nothing but fascist rabble rousers operating under the cloak of religion, and should be dealt with accordingly. Nazism, Communism, and whatever the hell the Japanese were smoking in the last century were "religions," and we had to obliterate them.

If the noise Osama and the other "radical fundamentalists" are preaching isn't Islam, fine. But whatever it is, we're going to kill it.

30 posted on 10/19/2001 10:43:16 AM PDT by agave
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There have been many reports of Christians being murdered in Indonesia for years

Have you studies the Quran? I ask because I don't know the context of the passages you referenced. As another poster demostrated you can paint a very dark picture of the Bible if you ignore the wider context, the big picture. So to understand those passages, you must understand the context in which they appear.

Personally speaking I don't think that the Quran matters. Even if it taught Muslims to be loving, forgiving, and tolerant. The plain truth is Muslims are brutal to non-Muslims, when they are in power.

31 posted on 10/19/2001 10:44:49 AM PDT by Sci Fi Guy
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"... Vice President Haz, who has said the attacks on the United States should help cleanse Washington of its sins.."

That's an interesting line. Every American administration since JFK has poured military and financial aid into Indonesia. We supported the Indonesian military--populated mainly by Muslims--in their brutal putdown of leftist "elements"--mainly buddhist, christian, animist and atheist.

Washington stepped up financial and miliary aid in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indonesia was, of course, a favorite resting place for Wall Street money. American businesses, with the full blessing of Washington, flocked there in the 70s and 80s in search of extremely cheap labor.

In the midst of one of the routine anti-christian, anti-chinese pogroms Clinton made a State visit and dressed up as a memeber of the Indonesian bowling team. A few weeks later, while some of the churches were still smoldering Madeline Albright--the mad bomber of Belgrade--showed up to shore up our continuing friendship with the great Nation of Indonesia.

I wonder if that's what he means by "Washington's sins"? If so I'd like to thank him for the honest assessment of our foregn policy. I wonder if anyone in Washington will be willing to speak of "Washington's sins" in the next few years? So far, it doesn't look too likely. George W. Bush trotted over to the CIA to deliver an affectionate, supportive pep-talk even before he visited the smoking ruins of the World Trade Towers.

And Americans seem more willing than ever to offer themselves up as human sacrifices on the altar of globalism in atonement for "Washinton's sins". Can a People survive long on self hatred masking itself as "patriotism"?

32 posted on 10/19/2001 10:46:54 AM PDT by LaBelleDameSansMerci
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The Jihadist Fascist Movement International.
36 posted on 10/19/2001 11:02:17 AM PDT by Lent
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I guess some women like having their clits chopped off and wearing tarps and being beaten etc.
41 posted on 10/19/2001 11:12:19 AM PDT by biblewonk
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IMHO, I think it is time to tell the Muslins: tone down the rhetoric, or Mecca will disappear........
44 posted on 10/19/2001 11:14:40 AM PDT by thinking
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Didn't their economy tank several years ago and investors pull out? Because of the political turmoil. Maybe these radicals want to live in poverty forever. If they do fine, but don't blame us for their lunacy!
45 posted on 10/19/2001 11:17:48 AM PDT by LaGrone
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They're all your's Aussies. I recommend neutron bombs for depopulation and subduement then colonization at will. Lots of juicy raw materials. Say, can we make a deal now. Got lots of neutron bombs ( making up some extras now) and we could use some oil and lumber. Thanks.
46 posted on 10/19/2001 11:18:08 AM PDT by mercy
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