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Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map
hypnosec writes "Google has indirectly walked right into one of the Middle East's most obstinate conflicts by labeling Palestine as an independent nation — wiping off the term 'Palestinian Territories' and replacing it with 'Palestine' in its localized search page. Google's move is more or less in line with the UN's October decision to name Palestine as a non-member observer state. The status given to Palestine will allow the state to join UN debates as well as global bodies such as the International Criminal Court, in theory at least. Up until May 1, anyone visiting http://www.google.ps were shown the phrase Palestinian Territories. This change is definitely not a huge one but, it has attracted criticism from politicians in Israel."
We all have our roles to play I suppose.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
He just removed "territories" from the "Palestine territories" google picture because he thought it looked better. Now every major news outlet is carrying this (non)story.
Good. It's about time.
EOM
If they don't like what you've done, you've probably done the right thing.
After much deliberation, they thought "Palestine Beta" would cause yet more controversy.
the rothschild family and the queen of england are just trying to use their proxies (including google) to spark conflict in the middle east to trigger world war 3, collapse the US dollar and invoke the new world order... in preparation for the nazis to return from the dark side of the moon with their army of rock spiders
Google typically defers to self-identification, even where names or status are disputed. For example, google.mk is taglined "Google Macedonia", not "Google FYROM".
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Actually, quite contrary to that. The world goes to great lengths not to notice the daily war crimes perpetrated against Israeli civilians.
Or Syrians. Or Rwandans. When a favourite hobby (any, really, not just Israel-bashing) becomes an all-consuming obsession, it is time to see a doctor.
So, world, make an appointment. There are medications that can remedy the "dos darn juice shat in my pants" syndrome.
And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green? Everyone now!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
An organization that wants any other group wiped from the face of Earth deserves just that.
I assume you're talking about the Israeli government? Or do they not count, because they actually are systematically wiping Palestine off the map, instead of just wanting it?
Annex?
Don't you mean occupy? Or are you admitting that Israel is taking land by force?
I have no problem with Israel occupying Palestinian territories from which rockets are fired. They can do for as long as it takes for the attacks to stop as far as I am concerned. But its not their land to settle.
The Sinai was returned to Egypt as a condition of a peace treaty. And the Golan Heights will be returned to Syria based on the same.
Have gnu, will travel.
I was so pleased when the UN finally told the US and Israel what they thought of the nice little Ghetto Israel had created for the Palestinians to slowly be eradicated in.
Frankly, I agree with Sir Gerald Kaufman of the UK in his views that Israel is no better than certain German Fascists in their treatment of the Palestinians.
“The current Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians,” Sir Gerald Kaufman, a veteran MP of the governing Labour Party and a long-time critic of Israel, said Thursday in parliament.
And before some butt-hurt heeb starts pulling out his "you disagree with Israel, you therefor are an anti-semite" card...
Sir Gerald Kaufman is himself a Jew.
I hope that someday more land can be given to Palestine and both sides can learn to live in peace -- but considering this dispute seems driven by ultra-conservative religious wing-nuts on all sides, I don't think that will happen without total annihilation of the region.
It is about time! And with respect to any Israelis or Jews who might be offended by Google's actions today. I have just one thing to say to you: fuck you.
Google is responding to the reality of the situation on the ground today. The Palestinians people lived in a place called in English Palestine by everyone else including the Jews until 1948 when Israel was created. While it is true that they and other Arab neighbors did cause some problems by deciding not to bow to the reality of the political situation then and agree with the two-state solution created by the UN back then and to fight the Jews who through the UN legally stole half of Palestine from the Palestinians the fact of the matter is that there is a nation that is bottled up within the borders of the current state of Israel that do not want to be a part of Israel and would like some of the land back that the Israelis stole from them in 1967 not so fair and square.
Israel as it currently exists as a Jewish state is doomed because of the unsustainable situation it is in. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now. The nation is quickly losing the moral capital the Holocaust granted it by tacitly creating ghettos for the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza, regularly depriving these people of commerce, jobs, food, water, and electricity, and then expecting that the people they victimize will simply put up with it. Google's actions today are just another nail in the coffin of the Jewish state.
Ok, ok, I'm getting off my soap box now.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
Individuals launching rockets is not the same as Israel as a whole committing those crimes. Also I don't remember the Palestinians using white phosphorus on civilians, do you?
What, give both parties nukes and let them hash it out once and for all?
Actually, quite contrary to that. The world goes to great lengths not to notice the daily war crimes perpetrated by Israeli military.
FTFY. You are quite welcome.
The UN is saving its energy for the vi/emacs dispute.
Have gnu, will travel.
And the Golan Heights will be returned to Syria based on the same.
Don't hold your breath on that one.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
As an Israeli, all I can say is:
* It's about time.
* Don't worry about the yelling from certain Israeli politicians. They look just as dumb to most Israelis as they do to the rest of the world.
DNA has shown that Israelis and Palestinians are the same people. Either they both have an ancestral claim to the land or neither one does.
That their holy book says all infidels must convert or die doesn't give them any moral high ground.
That Israel ignores all the parts of their holy book demanding just treatment of foreigners (leaving only the parts about conquest and oppression and exclusion) nicely levels the moral playing field.
If you think it is "individuals" launching rockets you have a seriously flawed understanding of the situation.
If you're outraged about the use of chemicals against "civilians," do you have any to spare?
Suicide Bombs Spread Rat Poison, Disease
Is a Palestinian Arab launching a rocket aimed at an Israeli town innocent?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I do not see the PA or even Hamas advocating the launching or rockets lately. If there are such criminals, then they can be prosecuted. Demolishing hospitals is obviously not proportional response.
JIDF pls go
Two counterpoints:
#1: Poor people are usually religiously backward. Israel has kept Palestine poor. If Palestinians were free to trade, and grew wealthier, they might become a bit more progressive.
#2: Even if Palestinians are backward hicks, that doesn't justify Israel's treatment of them. A Palestinian state may not be an ideal solution, if it has a high chance of turning into a theocracy, but is there any other way of preventing Israel from further mistreating them?
In what twisted reality is it a badge of honor that Israel only uses explosives at no risk to their operators? Israel is perfectly okay with killing innocent civilians, so there's not much to distinguish it besides it showing less resolve/desperation on their part.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics" - Mark Twain
I assume you're talking about the Israeli government?
No, that would be Hamas. Their charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
Or do they not count, because they actually are systematically wiping Palestine off the map, instead of just wanting it?
There seems to be some defect in your understanding of genocide as the number of Palestinian Arabs has long been increasing. You also don't give credit where credit is due. The brother Arabs of the Palestinian Arabs told them to leave their homes and villages while they slaughtered the Jews in 1948. It didn't turn out that way, and now the other Arabs treat the Palestinian Arabs like scum.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
As far as I'm concerned, Israel is one of the most belligerent and violently oppressive regimes on the planet. I couldn't give two squirts of piss if they're "upset" about Palestine being properly named.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
That's a very simplistic view. Consider the situation where militants enter an area they don't like - such as the Christian quarter, fire their rocket and go home. An Israeli military response, be it firing back or occupation, at the source of the rocket is pretty much a win-win for them. This is not a hypothetical situation. It happened repeatedly and probably will again.
I don't know why you guys defend one over the other. Both sides hate each other and have done outrageous things. It's like a fight between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Yup, having cruel, warmongering neighbors who like to murder children and indiscriminately level the shanty-infested `cities' tend to make people a bit resentful. That applies to both sides of this conflict.
Also, do you keep this kopipe in a text file to post quickly? Also, are you in that JIDF program where they pay people to shitpost on websites with pro-Israel propoganda? I'm not accusing you, It's just the feeling that I'm getting.
Citation Needed.
Have gnu, will travel.
Did you miss the news that it took the Israeli Supreme Court to (finally) protect female Jews from being harassed or arrested at the Western Wall by the Ultra Orthodox? How about opinion surveys of Americans on how it's acceptable to drone bomb the shit out of other countries?
Beam, motes. And if you want to bitch about the problems of fundamentalist islam, start with the nearest mirror, as it's usually:
1) In response to western imperialism. Yeah, you're pissed about the 911 attacks that killed 3,000. They're kinda pissed about American sanctions that killed 500,000 children in Iraq. And your overthrowing their secular democracy in Iran to be replaced by a brutal dictatorship from the Shah.
2) Financed by client states like Saudi Arabia. You know, where the hijackers were from, but was never on our blow-shit-up list. Huh.
3) Financed and supported by the CIA. The Mujahideen in Afghanistan, rebels in Libya and now Syria, and MEK in Iraq. Then there was that triffle of "buying" the services of young boys in Afghanistan to be raped by tribal warlords.
Bullshit. The entirety of Israel is built on land stolen from the native population. First in 1948, when a bunch of immigrants from Europe decided they had a greater claim than those who had lived there for thousands of years. And then in 1967, when they started a war of territory expansion yet claimed to be the victims.
ALL of the occupied territories ALL of the settlements and ALL of East Jerusalem are illegal.
I didn't realize the CIA defined international law. They might want to, though! ;-)
Here is the UN's list of member states.
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I saw this posted around as a general trolling before. Never does anyone state actual sources. Let alone having been down there and observed things himself.
I, for one, *was* down there. And both "sides" are bursting with good and kind people! Exactly as you'd expect it. Only some nutjobs who want to rule (religious "leaders", "governments" & co) spread such extremist shit. In essence saying all people down there are like he says, is like saying all Americans are like the WBC.
Ridiculous bullshit...
It's built on land stolen from the native population by a bunch of immigrants.
Will you? Jews were less than 10% of the area population in 1900. When Zionists "declared independence" they were only 31% of the population, the vast majority just off the boat or first-generation. When they started the 1967 war and illegally seized the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, they settled the stolen land with....more immigrants.
History and facts have a well known anti-Zionist bias.
You need to read some history if that's what you think. Mark twain's trip is a particularly good account, the entire region was composed of malaria ridden swampland and ghost towns with the occasional temporary habitation by desert nomads. Multiple prominent leaders of the "palestinians" have admitted that the existence of any "palestinian" people is a complete and utter myth, invented solely as a political tool and populated by illegal immigrants from the surrounding arab nations. There are written accounts from governors who describe virtually their entire city's population sneaking into the british mandate to try and displace the jews.
Even the persona of "Yasser Arafat" of the PLO is a myth, a false name used by the nephew of the Grand Mufti Al-Husseini because (at the time) anyone who knew his real name would have immediately recognized that he was doing nothing other than continuing the goals of his uncle's closest political ally: http://i.imgur.com/NZ5DGwk.jpg?1
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Am I supposed to believe that these poll results distinguish Palestine or Muslims from the rest of humanity negatively somehow?
Let me tell you, being transgendered, from over here all the Abrahamaic religions look pretty much the same and pretty much all equally morally bankrupt. Those survey results don't look much different from what I'd expect one would obtain by interviewing local Christians around here. Including things you've identified to attempt to make Islam look regressive by way of being misogynist. Christians around here believe the same things, although they have different clothing than hajibs they believe superstitious things about.
Misogyny runs rampant in Abrahamaic religions. Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam just have different ways of expressing it. At least the one thing all three can agree on is that, drawing from the ancient Greek myth, that it must be a woman who's responsible for all the evils of the world.
Guess what. Most of the world, at different times, has been ruled by different people. What do you think the native inhabitants of this continent [The Americas] might think about their Christian conquerors? At least, the ones that are left to speak.
I'm going to get modded flamebait for this, but I honestly believe it, and I've got the karma to burn. Israel couldn't have done better to take plays out of feminism's playbook. They're always history's perpetual victims. They're always morally perfect. It's all completely bullshit. It's a passive-aggressive appeal to white, male, and German guilt.
Israel has no right to exist. Yes, what happened during the holocaust was terrible, but the answer to evil isn't more evil.
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Part of the problem is Israel got Palestinian government classified as terrorists, so we never hear there side. Only Israels extreme version of their side.
You sir, disgust me, really. What Israel is doing is *actions* not words, and it results in a huge number of deaths each year.
Disgusting murderers.
Do you think it's a coincidence that all 3 of the countries you've listed are countries that have been fucked the hardest by more powerful countries? So, when someone invades their land, people get mad at them and become radicalized? Boy, what a fucking shock.
I looked up "Palestine" on Google Maps and still didn't see any of the boundaries determined. Could Google figure that one out for us too? I'm sure there's got to be an algorithm for that. (And before anybody says anything, yes, the word "algorithm" is derived from Arabic, so it might be biased.)
News at 11.
Ah, I see you're spamming the "legal case for Israel" propaganda. Problem is, reality has a well-known anti-Zionist bias, and Israel has zero legal justification for it's formation or land grabs.
First, it was formed by a bunch of immigrants stealing land from the people already living there. Jews were a tiny minority - less than 10% of the population - in 1900. The Zionists "declaring independence" in 1948 were almost entirely just off the boat or first generation immigrants.
So, it's no different from Manifest Destiny: a sense of entitlement to other people's land.
That's always been slight-of-hand. Israel wants land, and peace gets in the way of their land-grabbing.
And rightly so. The British Mandate of Palestine was going to give 56% of the land to 31% of the population, almost all of whom were immigrants. It's like if the minority Cuban immigrant population of Florida up and laid claim to most of the state - think the rest of the population might reject such a proposal?
When did Zionists negotiate with Palestinians on the formation of Israel?
Another poster already called you out for that nonsense, but such hypocrisy deserves to be highlighted again.
Ah, the "continuing presence" propaganda. Again. So if the surrounding Arab nations were to militarily wipe Israel off the map - something you guys have been yelling about for decades - to form an independent Palestinian state, you'd be just fine with it it, right? Because Palestinians have had a "continuing presence" in the area? Like most Zionist propaganda, this talking point doesn't stand up to two seconds of scrutiny.
Did the fact that sub-Saharan African countries were majority-black mean Apartheid was okay? Two seconds of scrutiny...
You mean the international law that has always held that ALL the occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem have always been illegal and should be returned to the Palestinians? That international law?
Feel free to do just that at any time.
Looks like we need to add more facts for the uninformed:
Hamas says still seeks Israel's destruction
(Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by al Qaeda's second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel's destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction.
"We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine," Hamas said in a statement, in a clear reference to Israel as well as to the occupied West Bank. . . more
Who Are the Real Nazis?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
And the Likud charter lays claim to the occupied territories and denies any Palestinian state. Funny how the Zionist apologists never talk about that. Or the inconvenient fact that Hamas was created by Israel to undermine Fatah.
There seems to be some willful obtuseness in your comment, as you're swapping out the elimination of a country with the elimination of a people.
Depends, do you have any sense of proportion? How about when it's Israel violating the cease fire and then killing hundreds of Palestinians a la Cast Lead? How about the fact that even the IDF admits that the rockets are a psychological and not a military threat? Or the fact that an Israeli is more likely to be killed in a car accident with a bus - not car accidents overall but car accidents with buses - than by a Palestinian?
And who created Hamas again? And the Likud Charter, again?
Who Are the Real Nazis?
By the racist Jonah Goldberg? More like Who Are the Real Shitbags.
The "reality of the situation" is that the proposal was to give 56% of the land to 31% of the population. And of that 31%, the vast majority were just off the boat from Europe. Of course the natives rejected such a deal, you would too.
Riiiight. And I bet you switch from that denial of Palestinian history to the "continuing presence" canard to justify Zionist land grabbing with a straight face, don't you? You know, the one that pretends that 5% of the population means that a bunch of immigrants can come in and take all the land within 50 years?
Cars? Heck, bathtubs and home furniture are a greater risk to Americans than terrorism.
Not really, when you look at the real underlying motivations. In Israel, it's to forestall any real peace process because any real peace would involve them returning illegal settlements. In America, the underlying motivation is profit. Those porno scanners and hellfire-equipped drones make someone a pretty penny.
That someone just isn't you or me.
There are no atheists in the trenches.
jh
If by continuing presence you mean the fact that the jews are the only group to maintain any significant and continuous permanent habitation of the region for the last three thousand years then yes that's also part of what I'd mention, although it's neither a "land grab" nor a canard.
Your arguments on the other hand fit that definition handily, and your reference to the specious "canaanite" canard in another comment is a pretty clear giveaway that you're just here to shill for these guys: http://i.imgur.com/fVa0Nxq.jpg
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Israel launched a sneak attack on the Egyptian Air Force in 1967, supposedly because Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran, an important shipping route to Israel.
This presents a bit of a quandry for Zionist apologists: if that was a justified action, than all attacks from Hamas on Israel are justified in response to the total blockade of Gaza.
Hardly. Madeline Albrecht is even on record saying it was worth it.
How bad does that zombie canard smell? It was bad enough when Bushies were using it in 2003. How many people Saddam had killed does what to justify the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children? Unless you were an Iraqi citizen of the time, how were your elected representatives engaged in said attacks?
Moranic wingnut deflection is moranic. But since you went there, the CIA have a proud history of being some of the biggest assholes on the planet. Now, before you get all butthurt and vomit up some other zombie winger canard (torture and rape rooms?), go ahead and tell us how many democracies Saddam had overthrown during his time in power compared to the CIA.
So yes, you will brazenly engage in hypocrisy with a straight face.
Awww, did someone get butthurt that another canard went up in flames, so you had to try and project your racist shitbaggery onto someone else? Has that ever worked for you in the past? In any case, say hi to Francisco Pizarro and Bull Connor on your way into hell.
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The "reality of the situation" is that the proposal was to give 56% of the land to 31% of the population.
56% does not really tell the whole story either. It is not the American Mid-West, where one plot of land is just about as good as any other plot of land (and now I'll probably get someone from the Mid-West telling me it isn't like that there either. Sorry.)
The 56% awarded to Israel is better land than the 44% given to the Palestinian reservations, and that divide has only increased as Israel has occupied more land.
Finally! A year of moderation! Ready for 2019?
Or the inconvenient fact that Hamas was created by Israel to undermine Fatah.
I think you'll find the truly inconvenient fact to be that your claim is wrong, a misreading of the facts. The facts are more subtle, and it is more a study in the law of unintended consequences. And please don't bother throwing this back at me from the article below since it will show you apparently either didn't read the article, comprehend the article, or both: ""Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. " That sentence from the article is more hyperbole than fact.
This is more informative:
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and '80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity. It allowed Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools. Crucially, Israel often stood aside when the Islamists and their secular left-wing Palestinian rivals battled, sometimes violently, for influence in both Gaza and the West Bank.
"When I look back at the chain of events I think we made a mistake," says David Hacham, who worked in Gaza in the late 1980s and early '90s as an Arab-affairs expert in the Israeli military. "But at the time nobody thought about the possible results."
Israeli officials who served in Gaza disagree on how much their own actions may have contributed to the rise of Hamas. They blame the group's recent ascent on outsiders, primarily Iran. This view is shared by the Israeli government. "Hamas in Gaza was built by Iran as a foundation for power, and is backed through funding, through training and through the provision of advanced weapons," Mr. Olmert said last Saturday. Hamas has denied receiving military assistance from Iran.
Arieh Spitzen, the former head of the Israeli military's Department of Palestinian Affairs, says that even if Israel had tried to stop the Islamists sooner, he doubts it could have done much to curb political Islam, a movement that was spreading across the Muslim world. He says attempts to stop it are akin to trying to change the internal rhythms of nature: "It is like saying: 'I will kill all the mosquitoes.' But then you get even worse insects that will kill you...You break the balance. You kill Hamas you might get al Qaeda."
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And the Likud charter lays claim to the occupied territories and denies any Palestinian state. Funny how the Zionist apologists never talk about that.
I take it then that you must be truly baffled by the fact that successive Likud Prime Ministers have ceded territory to the Palestinians, including withdrawing from Gaza? How is that possible if the charter is as you say? Perhaps there are subtleties to Israeli politics unaccounted for by the claims you post? Will you be including notice of the Likud concessions of territory in future posts about the Likud charter?
Likud
The third Likud premier was Benjamin Netanyahu, elected in May 1996, . . .
In 1998, Netanyahu reluctantly agreed to cede territory in the Wye River Memorandum. . . .
. . . early elections for Prime Minister were called for March 2001. Surprisingly, Netanyahu declined to be the Likud candidate for Prime Minister, meaning that the fourth Likud premier would be Ariel Sharon. Sharon, unlike past Likud leaders, had been raised in a Labour Zionist environment and had long been seen as something of a maverick. In the face of the Second Intifada, Sharon pursued a varied set of policies, many of which were controversial even within the Likud. T
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
There are no atheists in the trenches.
Nothing could possibly convince me more firmly of the nonexistence of god or gods than being sent to war.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Select results from a new Pew survey of Muslims worldwide show that Palestinian Muslims are among the most "religiously conservative" and intolerant of all Muslim-majority countries.
Given their experiences with western democracies, I can hardly blame them. The right way to get these people to open up is to show them the benefits of democracy.
Those who pretend that a "one state solution" would respect the rights of a Jewish minority are knowingly lying
This is what constitutional guarantees are for.
Furthermore, never in history has there ever been a single Jewish suicide bomber.
They don't need suicide bombers. The state of Israel is more than willing to do the killing itself.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm no different. But looking at religious behaviours in contended and violent regions is, in my own opinion, quite difficult to analyse. It might make you think that religious fanatics went to war in WW1 for example.
jh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_dispute#Reasons_behind_the_dispute
Casteism
Since my post was censored (because Muslim extremists and Leftists are afraid of the truth and can't debate - so they remove my post), I have reposted my thread. "F*** the Jews", "Israel has no right to exist", and racial slurs against Jews seems to be totally fine to say here, but not this? Unbelievable and sickening. What's wrong Slashdot? Can't debate the facts? So censor me? I had a 5 mod "Informative"!
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Select results from a new Pew survey of Muslims worldwide show that Palestinian Muslims are among the most "religiously conservative" and intolerant of all Muslim-majority countries.
Many of the questions showed that Palestinian Muslims rated behind only Afghanistan, Iraq and sometimes a handful of others in their levels of fanaticism.
Here are some of the survey questions with how Palestinian Muslims answered:
Please tell me if you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree, or completely disagree with this statement: Members of your religion have a duty to try and convert others to your religious faith.
"Completely" or "mostly" agree 82%
Some people think that if a man engages in premarital sex or adultery it is justified for family members to end his life in order to protect the family honor. Do you personally feel that this practice is:
Often or sometimes justified: 33%
Some people think that if a woman engages in premarital sex or adultery it is justified for family members to end her life in order to protect the family honor. Do you personally feel that this practice is:
Often or sometimes justified: 37%
Which comes closer to your views? "Islam is the one true faith leading to eternal life in heaven" or "Many religions can lead to eternal life in heaven"?
Statement #1 89%
"Women should have the right to decide if they wear a veil" 53%
"Women should not have the right to decide whether to wear a veil" 35%
"Sharia law is the revealed word of God" 75%
"Sharia law is developed by men, based on the word of God" 16%
"Sharia law should be open to multiple interpretations" 42%
"There is only one, true understanding of sharia law?" 51%
Do you ever participate in inter-faith religious groups, classes, or meetings with Christians or not?
Yes 8% No 91%
"A wife should have the right to divorce her husband" 33%
"A wife should not have the right to divorce her husband" 57%
Agree or disagree? "A wife must always obey her husband"
87% "completely" or "mostly" agree (46%, 41%)
"Do you favor or oppose making sharia law, or Islamic law, the official law of the land in our country?"
89% favor 8% oppose
For those who answered "favor" - should Sharia apply to non-Muslims?
39% yes 43% Muslims only
"Who should have a greater right to parents’ inheritance – sons or daughters, or should both have equal rights?"
Sons 51% Daughter 1% Equal 43%
Is polygamy morally acceptable?
Yes - 48% No - 20% Not a moral issue - 17%
Is drinking alcohol morally acceptable?
Yes - 1% No - 92%
Is homosexual behavior morally acceptable?
Yes - 1% No - 89% Not a moral issue - 5%
Some people think that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies... Do you personally feel that this kind of violence is:
Often or somewhat justified 40% Rarely or never justified 49% (highest percentages justifying suicide attacks of all countries surveyed)
Do you favor or oppose the following: the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion?
Favor - 62% Oppose - 29%
Do you favor or oppose the following: punishments like whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery?
Favor - 72% Oppose - 23% (behind only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Niger)
Do you favor or oppose the following: stoning people who commit adultery?
Favor - 81% Opp
Fine. But how does moving Jewish settlers into the land help out with that scenario?
Have gnu, will travel.
Actually that would be you that's engaging in bald faced lying and hypocrisy with at this point a blatantly obvious troll face. I mean you don't get much more openly absurd than calling historical documentation of the Grand Mufti's alliance with Hitler, and his Nephew's continuation of their shared goal under the false name Yasser Arafat "racist shitbaggery".
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Normally that would just be obvious trolling, but here it's actually relevant, so I will comment: it's not the "Jews" that are the problem, merely the hardline Israeli nationalists, anymore than all "Muslims" are a problem, rather than just the extremist terrorist groups. Both sides are a problem; both sides *claim* to be representing a much larger, much more diverse, and generally much more moderate population, but don't actually represent them very well.