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Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank
forand writes "Using screen shots of a customer's Facebook profile, owners of a West Bank internet cafe helped Palestinian intelligence forces capture a man accused of heresy." According to sources quoted in the story, residents of both Gaza and the West Bank face ongoing scrutiny of their online activities; in Gaza, "Internet cafe owners are forced to monitor customers' online activity and alert intelligence officials if they see anything critical of the militant group or that violates Hamas' stern interpretation of Islam."
The only deals we need from those people are natural gas and oil, sooner or later we may not need those either, let them rot in their own religion, it's their worst enemy. Incidents like this one are the kind of thing that makes me despise their culture altogether.
Really? Where did you get that standard?
So International laws only apply after you make peace with yourself? Israel doesnt have to define its borders, can control 4 million refugees lives in every respect without giving them any rights, though they have to obey the Israeli (thats called aparthied btw) all because the Palestenians haven't according to you made peace with themselves?
I can assure you have a lot to learn about Palestine. Seriously, start here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDgiE9aRmBo
Of course, we don't really worry to much with "heresy", but damn they want us to narc on our neighbors, report any "suspious" activity we see.
That's the start, of course. Soon we'll be just like them.
Be seeing you...
The crime rate in America is higher than any other developed nation on earth, certainly any muslim country. We, the US also distribute and have more weapons than any nation on earth.
As far as killing people for idealogy, consider we killed 3 MILLION people in Vietnam because they didnt view property and free markets the way we wanted them to.
Who has the violent culture, really? Muslims? nah.
... than a Westener who thinks cultural diversity is exists only because the West hasn't given them the right culture yet.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Brother, you just said a mouthful. If I had a nickel for every time I heard some radio loudmouth talking about how we are "defending our freedom" by using a Predator drone to incinerate 20 people on the other side of the world in order to (maybe) get one guy who might be involved with another guy who wants to blow up some oil company contractor for turning his country into a toxic dump, I'd have enough nickels to pay for one of those drones.
Especially with "Veterans' Day" last week, we were constantly hearing about how every GI stationed in Germany is a hero and the best and brightest and how we need to thank then for "defending our freedom".
Fact is, there's only a small percentage of the people in our armed services who joined with some great noble vision in mind. Most of them were just making a decision that seemed like a good idea at the time. When we started sending our state National Guard troops over to Iraq, and hiring "contractors" at inflated wages to do jobs that GIs used to do, I realized the whole thing was a scam to keep the money flowing back and forth from (usually GOP) congressmen and military contractors, including the largest one, Haliburton, that's not even a U.S. company.
We tell this pretty fairy tale about "defending our freedom" because it keeps young men and women from having to deal psychologically with what they're actually doing. When an actual "threat to our freedom" arises, you'll know it because Republicans will start talking about how we should just worry about our own country and let the rest of the world work out their own problems, like they did in 1939. As long as they're the ones cheerleading these military actions, you can be pretty sure they're just a dodge.
You are welcome on my lawn.