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but a large minority of Americans voted for Donald trump for no other reason than he promised to get rid of all the Muslims.

Interesting, my impression was that they voted for him because of their hatred for Hillary, you do recall all those chanting "lock her up"? It wasn't "kick em out", although that was a second line you could assign to the "build the wall" chant which amazingly also wasn't related to muslims but very specifically illegal aliens which for 99% of the Trumpsters meant Mexicans, even though a good portion are non-Mexican Latin American ancestry. But why bother with facts?

Please not that the Evangelicals *support* Donald Trump, even today in spite of the fact that nearly everything he has done in his personal life is directly antithetical to their professed beliefs.

Religion as a concept *is* the true root of evil. It is, at its essence, one group of people claiming they are better than everyone else because God said so.

That, however, is absolutely true. Look at any society where 1 specific form of religion has taken hold, and you'll see naked evil. I used to think Buddhists were the one religious group that were above this, preaching harmony and peace, but that was merely another case of hypocritical lip-service, again proving the point that the more idealist one claims to be, the bigger a hypocrite one is.

No they're really not. No more than the US is a place you can get shot for just walking down the street -- you can make the case that it's true, but there's a lot of hyperbole in it that other people won't pick up on. If you haven't been there, or don't know people from there, stop trolling. It perpetuates myths about the world that just aren't true.

Complete rubbish. Things like politicians being shot for opposing blashpemy laws,Kidnapping of Christian and Hindu girls for forced marriage and conversion don't happen in the West. I suggest that unless you have never lived in an Islamic majority country you shut up about "it being just the same in the US".

Go crawl back under your rock, racist.

You don't understand what a racist is, do you? I can see that as Hitler was rising you would have been calling the critics racists. Do you call people who criticise the Westboro Baptists racists? While, I have news for you - Islam is like the the Westboro baptists plus a violent army of thugs and suicide bombers. White converts to Islam become terrorists. Black Muslims in the Sudan are terrorists. Brown Muslims are terrorists. The one unifying factor is their war-like belief.

My brothers are the Coptic Christians in Egypt, who are being killed by the Muslims. My sisters are the young Hindu women in Pakistan who are kidnapped and forced to convert and marry Muslims. So hold on to your supremacist Muslim beliefs, that all others are for you to subjugate or kill. If a Muzzie were to crawl under a rock it would be an insult to the rock.

Here's one good link about American Muslims, but you can find similar elsewhere: Pew Research polling on American Muslims

I get the distinct impression you're hearing about Rauf from a less-than-objective source. Rauf believes in American freedom of speech and is patriotic, I don't know where you thought otherwise. If you're ever in New York City, I can take you to his mosque downtown at Masjid Farah. His congregation is sufi; very wonderful and loving people.

I've heard of churches using space inside a mosque, both 1400 years ago and more recently when a church burned down in the South. Clearly the Pope doesn't agree with the church letting Muslims use the space, but heck.

Well, I'm not saying I believe the war for minerals bullshit. Iraq had plenty of oil to sell anyone who wanted to buy it under Hussein, after all. The US was voluntarily not buying it as a sanction. Good job the coalition invaded then. Now they don't need to worry about that.

Well, there's lithium mines out the as for batteries

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/More-than-US$-3-trillion-in-rare-earths-and-precious-metals-under-Taliban-feet-20817.html

I'm sure the Taleban would have sold us lithium and used the money to murder their own people and refuse education to women if that's all we cared about.

Well, that's not ALL we cared about. Embedding US mining companies in a country not only hostile to the West but harbouring an arsehole like Bin Laden was always going to be tricky.

Do I have to do everything for you?

without making any value judgement, 117 male births for every 100 female probably isn't chance.

China’s problem has become the world’s problem. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides spewed by China’s coal-fired power plants fall as acid rain on Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo. Much of the particulate pollution over Los Angeles originates in China, according to the Journal of Geophysical Research.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26china.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

so the only thing that can be done is for korean volunteers and goverment agencies have to take the initiative in reforestation efforts in Inner Mongolia to at least abate the sand

Seoul launches reforestation of China’s Inner Mongolia region by Joseph Yun Li-sun The city of Seoul signs a US$ 49 million tree-planting agreement to reforest the Kubuqi, the seventh biggest desert in the world. The goal is to block sand blown by spring storms towards the Korean Peninsula.

Seoul (AsiaNews) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has decided to plant 72,000 trees in the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, which is the source of severe sandstorms that sweep across Asia. The aim is to prevent the so-called "yellow dust", dense clouds of fine, dry soil particles kicked up by high-speed surface winds in intense storms that block ventilation and irrigation systems on the Korean Peninsula and create health problems for the population. The city signed the deal on Tuesday with Future Forest and the All China Youth Federation to plant 72,000 trees and will invest about W50 million (US$ 49 million) in the tree-planting project.

The plan calls for members of the All China Youth Federation, which is affiliated with the Communist Party of China, to plant trees in Inner Mongolia.

NGOs will provide technical leadership and logistical support to planters, who might have problems in creating small oases to guarantee the survival of the saplings.

The 72,000 trees include poplar and desert willow, the only trees capable of growing with shallow roots.

According to some studies by Seoul University, if the tree-planting project is completed as scheduled, a green ecosystem in the desert will come into being by the end of next year, and will be capable of stopping the sand when winds blow from the West.

The Kubuqi is located some 600 kilometres west of Beijing and is seventh largest desert in the world.

Covered in forests until the late 19th century, it lost its vegetation as a result of early industrial development and overpopulation.

The region is known to be the source of 40 per cent of the yellow dust, which affects the Korean Peninsula every spring.

The South Koreans decided to launch this initiative because dusty thunderstorms have worsened over the past decade.

Sand can provoke serious respiratory problems and affects especially vulnerable groups like children, women and the elderly.

It can also clog air conditioning, an essential service for South Koreans during hot humid summers.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16776

One report from 2008.

I guess that's pretty ancient in today's world. If it was last done in 1020, I wouldn't have bothered you.

Perhaps you should read my previous posts?

If thats the case why were the Muslim countries ten times more liberal then its western counterpart 1000 years ago?

Actually, Christianity was quite liberal 1000 years ago — before the crusades, before the Inquisition (and the worst abuses thereof). The priests were allowed to marry. Even the "great schism" separating Roman (Catholic) and Byzantine (Orthodox) Churches has not happened yet.

The fact that there are thousands of different law school should be an indication of that.

Well, the anti-cartoon riots were world-wide, from the Wahhabist Arabs, to the moderate Pakistanis, to the perfectly "liberal" Indonesians.

Surely, Christians would've been upset and hurt by a disrespectful depiction of Jesus. But they don't go to hundreds-of-thousand demonstrations, nor issue death threats — much less follow-up on any...

But my suggestion — that the relative age of Islam may be the explanation of its adherents absurd behavior — was only a guess anyway... I just can't think of a more charitable explanation, unfortunately.

"But, if more Chinese students go back, it could damage the US's technology lead.", the Chinese PH.D's are all going home to the middle kingdom. Yup, that confirms it. Not another new invention will be created, and the secret of making fantastic Pork Bun's will weaken this country into chaos. Maybe I can get a job as a steel worker over at the middle kingdom?

*That* might not confirm it, but this pretty much does.

WTF? Seriously? Have you not read the news - eight year old girls filing for divorce in Saudi Arabia, & Imams throughout the world fighting Governments that are trying to introduce minimum ages of consent?

A few seconds' Googling turned up this gem:

Sanaâ(TM)a (AsiaNews) - Some Yemeni religious figures have launched a "fatwa" against the law recently approved by Parliament that sets the minimum age for marriage at 17. The statement, signed by the rector of Al-Eman University, Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, and by representatives of the party Islamic Islah, is aimed at eliminating the minimum age limit.

The question of the minimum age for marriage in Yemen was brought to the attention of world public opinion last April, following the case of Nojud Mohammed Ali, an 8-year-old girl who requested and obtained a divorce after being forced to marry a 30-year-old man.

I fear you've been drinking the 'moderate Islam' kool-aid, Mart.

You know there is a reason those muslims you know live in the west.

Some do. They came here for the same reason Catholics from Mexico or Buddhists from China did: economic opportunity.

Some of the Muslims I know are from South Africa and still live there; my karate school has several branches there. Islam in South Africa is rapidly growing; it is seen as an alternative to Christian churches that supported apartheid. (Does that mean that all Christians supported apartheid? Of course not.)

Why don't you seek out the truth ?

Why don't you? I'm sure it saves on mental exertion to assume all Muslims think and feel the same way, but bigotry is no way to get to know the world.

Google "asma bint marwan" for an introduction, but she's hardly alone.

Whether true or false - at least some contemporary Muslims say the story is an outright fabrication - the story is utterly uninformative of the attitudes of any given contemporary Muslim.

I suggest you go read some Rumi and relax.

quran 5:51 any muslim who is friends with any infidel is himself an infidel, unless this is for deception...this rule implies that "true" friendship between a muslim and any non-muslim carries the death penalty in islam

Exodus 22:18: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Does this mean all Christians and Jews want to kill Wiccans? Thankfully, no.

Some Hindu use "cow protection" as an excuse to murder non-Hindus who eat beef, and Hindu fundamentalists have managed to get "anti-conversion" laws passed.

During WWII, Japanese Zen monasteries raised money to build fighter planes.

Name a religion, and you can find incidents of violence in it. That does not mean that all followers of that religion support those teachings; to think otherwise is nothing more than bigotry.

Dang, I wish I had mod points.

Interestingly, the Christian Missionary Churches in India are by far the most casteist, with upper caste priests dominating the churches and segregating the lower caste Christians. Which is why just last month some 5000 Christians reconverted back to Indian religions.

http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/1,000-dalit-christians-reconvert-to-hinduism-in-tn/2653.htm
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12011&size=A
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58117

translated into English

"I beleive this is like the 3rd article on /. that covers the global warming problem, yet I don't remember reading a solution for the the problem yet. So what are the solutions?"

How about the Kyoto protocols?. A dandy solution. To stop global warming caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, the protocols have countries like India and China increase such emissions. That should solve the problem, right?

This details how China and India get to increase greenhouse gasses. In reality, the Kyoto Protocols are all about politics, and not about science. Why else would they be written so a CO2 molecule from the US is evil and one from China or India is good?

0.000000153% of the total world's population.

10/48,422,644

0.000020651% of the South Korean population.

So, yes, compared to the total deaths in S. Korea from cancer (~65,000 in 2004) or suicide (~12,000 in 2004) [source] I would say it is rather insignificant.

I mean, "every day, 37 Korean children under the age of 14 are killed or injured as pedestrians in road traffic accidents." [source] These people were playing video games too much.

Sure, Genisis has God taking away their legs. All that was lacking was the proof. It's no coincidence the proof is the Sacrum now is it? Dummm, deee dummb dumb!

You can also prove the Sun is smaller than a quarter by holding the quarter up in the sky and blocking your view of the Sun entirely! This trick should be good for the quarter of US citizens who think the Sun revolves around the Earth. Ironically, things are worse in Japan, but the Catholic Church is on the case! The two fifths of US citizens who have no curiosity are probably beyond redemption.

The world is weird but consistent. People are more so because they are not but they do not know it and do not care.

We all know that female infanticide doesn't happen in China, especially not in any significant numbers.

China? Female infanticide? What a racist thing to say! That post was almost as ignorant and egregiously false as denying the Holocaust. You tell him, pomo, set that China hating fool straight!

How about this article in Asia News? The article was written in January, 2005. It refers to the rising crime rate that results from increased male-related gang activity.