Posted on 07/11/2002 7:46:13 PM PDT by kattracks
Sounds like Republicans when the RATS rip and shred vouchers, expecially the NAACP RATS.
The islamic fundamentalist view of life as a perennial battle
Not Friend or Foe (Great posted comments too.)
Nonsense. He engaged in, and encouraged Islam's spread through warfare and imposition by the scimitar from its very beginnings. The Quran compels sharia through jihad throughout.
Fear leads to anger
Anger leads to hate
Hate leads to suffering.
Hmmm...Yoda may be on to something.
Bookshops in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, for example, sell a 1,265-page souvenir tome that is a kind of "greatest hits" of fatwas on modern life. It is strewn with rulings on shunning non-Muslims: don't smile at them, don't wish them well on their holidays, don't address them as "friend."
A fatwa from Sheik Muhammad bin Othaimeen, whose funeral last year attracted hundreds of thousands of mourners, tackles whether good Muslims can live in infidel lands. The faithful who must live abroad should "harbor enmity and hatred for the infidels and refrain from taking them as friends," it reads in part.
Saudis in general, and senior princes in particular, reject the notion that this kind of teaching helps spawns terrorists.
"Well, of course I hate you because you are Christian, but that doesn't mean I want to kill you," a professor of Islamic law in Riyadh explains to a visiting reporter.
People who believe in such religious-based xenophobia and justify behavior like this toward others not of their faith are the most rigid and dangerous of bigots and should not be allowed out of their hellhole countries. They are not fit to associate with civilized people.
I know we freepers have all been deeply distressed by the widespread enabling of terrorism, even in the supposedly civilized West: the disgusting messages of moral equivalence, the craven failures to embrace and defend classically liberal values that are supposedly shared by both conservatives and (non-collectivist) liberals. But the admittedly shameful incompleteness and slowness of the response shouldn't blind us to the fact that the worm is turning. Even a few in the Kingdom of Hate are beginning to notice.
News Flash: The infidels have got The Bomb now....
Well, it's a start, even though they need license to speak. This sounds amazing… "license to speak" but, the royal family has started to encourage limited discussion, and that's good.
When a devout muslim smiles at you, he is thinking of Danny Pearl.
Not really, it's just driven by the politics of the day. The same kind of "license to speak" was often given, and then taken back in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba etc.
Solzhenitzen was able to publish "A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch" (about the horror of the Gulag) around 1958 under Kruschev. The "license to speak" was soon snatched back. Ditto "Let A 100 Flowers Bloom" period in China in the 50s.
I really took this article with a bag of salt.
The hardliners in every country better take a close look at what the youth of Iran are doing.
After being the sole true Theocracy in the middle East, after 25 years of oppression, they are ready to throw off the bonds. It may come to a REAL revolution, and soon. Given a taste of real freedom, they will spread this to other countries, if that happens. IMHO
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