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450,000 Christians Flee From Muslim Attacks in the Central African Republic

... when millions of black African Christians and Animists were massacred in Sudan (many forced into slavery and forcibly converted to Islam) you never had the threat of Western intervention. Likewise, the mainly Christians of West Papua are currently facing Javanization and Islamization in Indonesia but the world is turning a blind eye once more just like they did when the Catholic Timorese were massacred in vast numbers by the same forces.

African Christians Slaughtered by ISIS-Affiliates

"Islam isn't just at the heart of the terror threat posed by the Islamic State. The religion is also contributing to the other major crisis plaguing the globe: the spread of Ebola" link

Which would explain why it's so popular in Iraq ? In which part of Africa would you find Iraq?

My mother who grew up in Tehran went to school, drove a Benz and who's mother ran the grocery store that my parents owned. Then the Shah was overthrown and my entire family (aunts/uncles/cousins etc) left for the US. The Ayatolla regressed 100 years of progress.

An interesting pictorial:
Photographs of students at Cairo University. Pay special attention to the hairstyles/headdress that the women in the pictures have. In the first pictures, you could mistake this photo for any university in the mid 50s. While in 2004, you'd never confuse this for some university in the middle of Oklahoma.

These photos represent the gradual but steady Islamic radicalization invading the Middle East and the rest of the world in the last three decades. I lived in Egypt until the year 1978 and have never wore a head cover, neither did my mother or grandmother. And this is thanks to a feminist movement that started in Cairo in 1919 under the leadership of the famous Egyptian feminist Hoda Shaarawi.

Yes, China executes more, but in Iran they rape child girls the night before the execution so they'll spend an eternity in hell.

Clamour in your own country? Fine. That's the value system your society has decided to adopt. Quit judging other countries' value systems.

When the value systems of other countries result in things like this, and this, and this, and this, sure as hell I'm going to judge them as evil. Because that's what they are.

And yes, of course the West is not perfect. But cases like those are invariably seen with horror by the population at large whenever they surface, and steps are done to fix them. They are certainly not par for the course, as they are in Iran, or China, or Afghanistan, or Somalia...

Attacks against The Enlightenment (see also: Age of Enlightenment) say for example, upon the idea of freedom of speech, in the name of one religion or another (let's just stick with this one religion for now) have been ongoing since reason began to displace superstition.

More recently, you may remember the cartoon controversy? This faded from the collective consciousness after "they" (people whose minds are captive to superstition of the islamic brand) repeatedly threatened, and then killed Dutch Filmmaker Theo van Gogh , great grandson of the brother (also named Theo) of the famous painter, Vincent. Contemporary Theo was guilty in the eyes of islam of making a film which was critical of the treatment of women under islam.

The great clash between Islam (unwittingly and unstably allied, by the way, with fundamentalist Christian radicals who are working within the western democracies to undermine the same feared Enlightenment values and institutions in favor of their own brand of superstition) on the one side, against the cultures and nations descended from The Enlightenment on the other, is coming to a head in Europe. The demographic trends, and the inability of the European cultures to assimilate their immigrant Muslim populations (alternatively, those populations are disinterested in assimilating), cause concern that Europe's democratic institutions will be subverted as instruments in the religious colonization of those European countries that gave birth to the Enlightenment by Islam, and their eventual conversion to theocracies in fact, if not in name.

March 2006:
"If Europe continues as it is now, the rising Muslim tide will, one at a time, transform the members of the European Union into Islamic Republics under Islamic Shari'a law as Muslims become the majority population."

February 2008:
The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable".

It has been suggested that this problem is exacerbated by limited economic opportunity for young people in these countries.
An Economist Considers the Riots in France (from 2005, there were more riots last spring, March 2007)

The non-political nature of the riots in France

Because you know no Universities have had radical speaks without them being beaten up.

Well us formerly French hating Americans are now pleased to say we no longer hate France. You can thank Sarky for that.

On a side note, I laugh that all these groups who advocate democracy and peacful resolution riot when the wrong person gets elected.

I think something is not right. I doubt Assyrian inscriptions existed before 2400 BCE.

Perhaps it is the Sumerians? They inhabited Mesopotamia at that time.

Turkey has a few cultural and political problems that it needs to overcome in order to join the EU. One of the more pressing issues is its denial of the Assyrian, Armenian, and Greek genocide it perpetrated during WWI.

Anyone who discusses the above issue is immediately deemed as insulting "Turkishness" and inciting hatred. Turkey's reply to this insulting behavior is to prosecute Orhan Pamuk and murdering Hrat Dink.

Listing of Muslim leaders who Condemn Terrorist Attacks

Fiqh Council of America makes fatwa forbidding Terror (PDF)

Sunni and Shia clerics release joint fatwa forbidding sectarian violence

What is the Islamic stance regarding kidnappings killings in Iraq?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Recapturing Islam from the terrorists
Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad

Islamic Spirituality: The Forgotten Revolution
Shaykh Nuh Ha Meem Keller

Peace and Justice in Islam
Imam Zaid Shakir

Tolerance in Islam
Muhamamd Marmaduke Pickthal

Wahhabism: Imam Muhammad Abu Zahra Explains
Shaykh G. F. Haddad

Does Quran teach violence?
Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi

ISNA denounces terrorism in the name of Islam
Statement signed by 72 nationwide Imams, Muslim scholars, leaders and activists.

Against Terrorism and Religious Extremism: Muslim Position and Responsibilities
Fiqh Council of North America

Are Violence and Extremism an Islamic Phenomena?
Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

IslamDenouncesTerrorism.com
Harun Yahya

http://www.aina.org/news/20060106102431.htm

Getzen

Kosovo was NOT a unilateral UN move. Russia was hotly against it and was appalled at the action taken. Germany in turn was concerned at Russia's response.

We are *done* in Kosovo. When Clinton was selling the war to the American people, all the Republican congresspeople and right-wing pundits said this was going to be Clinton's Vietnam, that we were entering a quagmire, etc. etc. Guess what? Situation is peaceful.

It's not hard to have peaceful results when your goals are minimal. We didn't even send in troops. Fact of the matter is that Kosovo was strategically and economically unimportant, and the action taken was an inconsequential exercise of military effort. Clinton's touted "reason" for taking action was "humanitarian reasons". If this be the case, any number of other countries could be seen as similar targets. Why did he not go into any of them as well? Are they not similar arguments you see posted against Bush these days? (ala, "Why Iraq? Why not Country X?")

Read up on some 1999 public opinion of Clinton's military excursions here and here

The parallels are incredibly amusing. So much that people bitch about Bush about today they were bitching about Clinton back in 1999. There were virtually identical claims way back in 1999 that Kosovo would see a dramatic decline in European confidence in American leadership due to international outcry about the bombings.

We have had no combat fatalities in Kosovo. We are done and the war is over. Service people have died, but not because of enemy combatants and insurgents

True, but you're trying to compare a ground war + 3 year occupation to a FOUR MONTH PERIOD in which no ground force was present and our only intervention involved bomb dropping, much of which was done in unmanned vehicles. Kosovo wasn't a war, it was a skirmish.

Clinton never lied to the American people

Some would argue he was just a better liar. That's why people never recognized him as such.

Bush's team had absolutely no plan for reconstructing Iraq, and they have no plan to this day

Anything to back up this claim with?

2000+ soldiers have died, and there is no end in sight. The violence it getting worse, not better. The military is stretched to their limits. This cannot continue without instituting a draft

Say what? Now you're just trying to be sensationalistic.

1737 combat deaths so far (not 2000+), since that's the yardstick you're using with Clinton.
No end in sight? Every day, more Iraqi security forces are trained. For every Iraqi squadron that can be deployed effectively, a U.S. squadron can be pulled back. Some reports are here or here.

And of COURSE the military "can continue" without a draft. They're still fighting over there now, right? That's "continuing." Now, whether or not we could fight _another_ war is a different story, though I'm pretty sure we still could without a draft. But it wouldn't be pleasant on the economy. You act as if Iraq is a growing effort instead of the resource sink it actually is. The current alotment of soldiers we have there now is the MAX we will have there. If the numbers will go anywhere, they will go DOWN. There's already talk of limited pullout.

FDR packed the supreme court and installed himself for an unprecedented 3rd time. Talk about abuse of power. But, he got us in a good position to win WWII, and his New Deal programs modernized the US, so that now America is a modern industrial country

But from whom did the Islamic world receive their knowledge from?

During the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries the Assyrian Christians of the Middle East began a systematic translation of the Greek body of knowledge into Assyrian. At first they concentrated on the religious works but then quickly moved to science, philosophy and medicine. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, and many others were translated into Assyrian, and from Assyrian into Arabic. It is these Arabic translations which the Moors brought with them into Spain, and which the Spaniards translated into Latin and spread throughout Europe, thus igniting the European renaissance.

One of the greatest Assyrian achievements of the fourth century was the founding of the first university in the world. The School of Nisibis had three departments: theology, philosophy and medicine, and became a magnet and center of intellectual development in the Middle East. The statutes of the School of Nisibis, which have been preserved, later became the model upon which the first Italian university was based.

When Arabs and Islam swept through the Middle East in 630 A.D., they encountered a lively Assyrian Christian civilization, with a rich heritage, a highly developed culture, and advanced learning institutions. It is this civilization which became the foundation of the Arab civilization.

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