Posted on 07/02/2007 7:39:44 AM PDT by pacelvi
"More Moslems came, and soon a small mosque was built, which attracted yet others. As long as Zoroastrians remained in the majority, their lives were tolerable; but once the Moslems became the more numerous, a petty but pervasive harassment was apt to develop. This was partly verbal, with taunts about fire-worship, and comments on how few Zoroastrians there were in the world, and how many Moslems, who must therefore posses the truth; and also on how many material advantages lay with Islam. The harassment was often also physical; boys fought, and gangs of youth waylaid and bullied individual Zoroastrians. They also diverted themselves by climbing into the local tower of silence and desecrating it, and they might even break into the fire-temple and seek to pollute or extinguish the sacred flame. Those with criminal leanings found too that a religious minority provided tempting opportunities for theft, pilfering from the open fields, and sometimes rape and arson. Those Zoroastrians who resisted all these pressures often preferred therefore in the end to sell out and move to some other place where their co-religionists were still relatively numerous, and they could live at peace; and so another village was lost to the old faith."
Boyce, A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, pp. 7-8;
“If you don’t want Zorro all over your ass, don’t mess with Zoroastrians.”
Hmnh. Guess it didn’t work.
And thanks to Bill Clinton, he is well entrenched in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Nappy headed Mo’s?
When do we start playing “Cowboys and Muslims?”
I would call Turbanex.
Ouch...
Doesn't Detroit now allow the 'call to prayers' broadcast? Mosques springing up all over the country?
Think it's already happening right here on US shores...
LOL!
We’re too concerned with being nice. Remember the numerous people who say that we shouldn’t torture terrorists even to save our citizens from an imminent attack because then we’d be lowering ourselves to their level? I think the feminization of the US could lead to the end of us....and I’m a woman - albeit one who would have NO remorse killing these demons.
“.... These Democrats need to be locked up for treason. “
.. instead Libby is going to prison
I said before we need little pig sweat water mists that you have to walk through to get on a plane... or plane/bus/train airbags full pig piss etc... defile them before they die.
“Does anyone here really think that Iraq is going to become a peaceful democracy?”
What answer are you begging for?
We can’t live Iraq.. is your question a rhetorical way of saying we need to leave? It’s hard to tell what you’re trying to say.
Only rumors of our guys committing atrocities get reported. Something like this is not good for the 'leave Iraq now' template.
It also took El Cid, lots of bloodshed, and the Spanish Inquisition before Spain was free of the Muslims. Best to avoid the infiltration in the first place.
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This is a bit of an exaggeration but I think the default female response is to conform to the world around her, and to seek concilliation with aggressors.
Muslim jihads are another act of Stupidity that has plagued man since the beginning of time. I have seen little done on the subject of investigating why “Mankind” is mostly “Stupid”? It is very hard to bring up “Stupidity” without it becoming “Insulting” so people need to get over it and Deal with it!
We humans sometimes think of ourselves as all equally Intelligent, In a perfect world that might exist?, but here on earth it does not, as 99% of the population has an average I.Q. of 101 or less, To simplify and not get into the complexities of bell curves, data shows 90% has an I.Q. of 81 and below (an I.Q. of greater than 130 would be preferred), Forest Gump character had an I.Q. of 70 but he was a nice person, (so being not so smart but nice, I am OK with). (But being stupid and a “Bonehead”, I am not OK with). When about 90 out of 100 people you meet are “Gumpish” and when personalities (Good & Bad) are mixed in, so we all seem to be surprised when people do and say “Stupid” things, statistically it’s to be expected, and we all would like to believe that 90% of people are all equally smart, but that’s just not true, and there are the exceptions of high I.Q. people doing evil stupid things.
Everywhere I go there is someone doing something stupid, on TV or on the road, it’s everywhere.
Almost every TV show has an idiot that we make fun of and laugh at, the “Gilligan” of the show that we are aware of but at the same time oblivious too, We have most TV shows written at a 7th grade level.
The only ones who don’t know or could ever are the “Stupid” people. I know it’s not “politically correct” and many of you will be upset by my statement, but it will not change the truth of it all. (We all know that I.Q. is a rough measurement and not precise) but even if it gives you some basic numbers to work with, we can see we have a long way to go before we evolve into something on the high percentage of “Intelligence”. That is why the masses can be so easily swayed by the media.
It is why we have people that are so easy to believe in these farfetched theories that these terrorist are freedom fighters, I myself don’t believe everything my Government tells me, but if it makes sense and there is a reasonable amount of proof, Chances are that it is True.
90% of the people you meet on the street are genetically incapable to reason out the obvious and believe, they keep trying to fit the square peg in the round hole and argue the fact that its suppose to work that way, to them it is a big challenge in which they employ theories that make them feel better such as that 911 was an inside job, a false sense of superiority of discovering something without proof so as to make it seem like they are an intellectuals.
I know that that the main response is going to be that an IQ test does not really measure Intelligence?, you could also give the “Gasoline can and matches test” to weed out a good majority, but if you think about it, I.Q. testing gives you something to work with and as time goes by there will be better test to give more accurate results, no matter if you are educated or not, although for someone with a low I.Q. it definitely does not hurt to be “Educated” but with the truth not with leftist ideals.
My personal belief is that if we are to have any chance of surviving in this world we need to educate and somehow find a way to have us mere mortals to have “common sense” even if it’s by training through “Education and for the more severe hardheaded ones they need to be put in a special place.
I would think most if not all of our mistakes of this kind throughout history have been made out of the combination from fatal stupidity aligned with sheer ignorance. Statistically we sometimes are plagued with evil that lurks in each one of us and causes us to do harm and destruction. Examples of these atrocities are documented endlessly since the beginning of time, yet we are still oblivious and naive.
Our “Only” chance of survival is to train and educate and filter the evil ones from our human society, it is something we all have to do together and make intelligent choices of our leaders.
It is almost an impossible challenge in itself considering all the different cultures, religions and languages we have to deal with which makes the odds are against us,
I could list an endless set of examples but hopefully you get what I am trying to say. It’s the impossible task of joining together for the whole of humanity. Hopefully we have enough strength and ability to do just that.
We all have to figure out where we are on the Intelligence scale, and some soul searching as to our moral and ethical values is very much needed to make the right and hard choices for our future together in that the majority can agree on to make life here on Earth as it should be. We need to make it rewarding in every aspect so to fulfill every avenue that we embark upon, Intellectually, Morally and from a financial point a positive return on our money invested.
Remember 90 out of 100 are not odds the few will gamble their life with. But I am more frightened that the 90% will continue on their oblivious trek!
Remember if you base your opinions and beliefs on “Emotion” instead of “Logic” more than likely you will be wrong! And it’s a common thing for the 90% to operate their life as such.
Its just genetic stupidity!, you just have to be smart enough to make the choices stupid proof, and of course statistically speaking the odds are against that!, just look at the history books for the list of stupidity of man.
I am trying to be fair but blunt, I sometimes think this politically correct world we have made has masked the truth of what we should be able to see. But I am afraid that sometimes “You just can’t fix stupid”.
Stupidity has just not gotten the attention it deserves and understanding it will help the fight.
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