um, There's been an outlook client on the Mac since forever. The Exchange group has been maintaining it but hasn't been advertising it. If you have an exchange setup, the client disk has a hidden mac partition on it that only shows the mac client. A large number of exchange admins don't even know it exists.
The majority of the people support growth, social stability, and getting on with their lives. CCP corruption holds back growth, promotes social instability, and has a better than even chance of returning the days of massive migrations of homeless fleeing calamity. The CCP is teetering on the edge of doing the jig and that's why it's running scared at the sight of a bunch of religious whackos.
The CCP oligarchy is mainly interested in not ending up doing a final public jig at the end of a rope attached to a lamp post. This is the secret behind why they repress Falun Gong. The FG actually got 10k people to show up at the homes of the major CCP figures and stage a protest as a complete surprise. If they had brought some rope and a bad attitude, that would have been the end of the regime, right there in a single, low-tech, decapitation strike.
Once you understand that this is the basic impulse driving the oligarchy, understanding the PRC becomes much easier.
I'm not fond of PRC censorship. I'm only a little less appalled at EU censorship. Alternatives to US control that reduce freedom of speech are *not attractive*.
For a lot of people, they can afford to be isolated from the PRC. The higher the barriers the CCP puts in place, the more people will be able to afford to be isolated because this sort of thing increases "the China price" and thus makes alternatives more attractive.
Walmart, if it wanted, could by itself shave off a point or two of PRC GDP. If the PRC pushes too hard, they will.
Or do you imagine that anybody is in the PRC because they like brutal asiatic dictatorships?
Straight line projections don't take into account that the PRC has demographically crippled itself. It's going to get old before it gets rich. I wouldn't worry so much about them taking over the world. I'd worry much more about them collapsing into 5-6 nuclear armed warlord states with unstable governments.
I would expect that my domain registrar will have arrangements with any decent sized root and register my company with any system that matters. If that means that they have to register once, twice, or even with five competing systems, I'll write a check and they'll do the work.
If you can run, you can escape a government. That is, unless it's the 1 world government and there's no space colonies. How do you escape that?
As a young child I escaped a government that believed in a whole laundry list of oppression. If one government came into being and fell into corruption (as every other government has done eventually) there would be no escape, just a nightmare of a Big Brother too big to ever overthrow.
No, it isn't a simple problem. Religion is like that. Inside my own faith, I engage in internal debate to reign in inappropriate conduct. All major faiths do this. When we fail, external discipline is applied by secular government and we're chided about failing in our duty.
Muslims should not be exempt from this process. As long as there are Islamist suicide bombers and terrorists all out of proportion to their population on the planet, there is going to be criticism because, objectively, whatever you are doing simply isn't working.
A for effort is just not enough. The pressure will ease off when the bodies stop falling. Is this really unreasonable? Do you really want muslims to be a "special case"? That's just setting yourself up for trouble over the long haul.
Look what happened to the jews. For centuries, christian kings would invite them in, use them as their tax collectors, the "outsiders" who did their dirty work and when they became inconvenient, they were killed and/or expelled. It's an awful bit of history. You don't want to fall in the same trap of being the outsider, the "special case". It can be a nice ride if you happen to be born at exactly the right time. It always ends up being very, very bad over the long haul.
There's a good case to be made that Pixar just bought Disney in much the same way that NeXT bought Apple. Look at the commanding heights of Apple Computer these days. Do you see the same crew that bought NeXT with a few NeXT survivors integrated into the management team or do you see the reverse with NeXT veterans dominating?
Why shouldn't Steve Job's *other* company try to replicate that success? Who cares what the nameplate says out front? If the technology, the management style, and the personnel shift to make Disney a Pixar writ large, who really bought who?
Seriously, there is a term of art "war" and a common use term "war". We're in the common use term "war" but not in the technical "war" state because we've set that particular word up for quick use in case of nuclear attack. We *are* at war.
Who is a civilian? How do you determine the justice of a particular killing? Osama bin Laden could read that document and, applying certain definitions of civilian (see US and state codes on what constitutes a militia) would likely declare that those people were not civilians and thus were legitimate targets. Attacks on Israeli targets that would normally be called civilian are similarly justified.
This isn't to say that the CAIR fatwa is disingenuous. It is merely loose enough that some definitional clarification is warranted.
As to the second one, I can't get at the article so I'll have to take you at your word that the 2nd link points to a fatwa that declares that excommunication is impossible. That is unilateral disarmament and disadvantages moderates far more than the extremists. Extremists will continue to excommunicate and pass sentences of death against moderates and the moderates will... what exactly?
If you have 5 admins adopting your system, that's 5 extra machines that are just sitting their as safety margin. If you have an administrator for the group, he can just take 1-2 machines and make them central "loaner" machines that might not have every possible tweak but will get the basic job done while your machine is being worked on. This way you have near zero downtime, your main machine can be moved to an empty workbench, and you can get your job done all while saving desk space and three machines.
This way you don't have to have any significant down time as you're only down when you're swapping hardware and that's just a few minutes, easily explained to users.
The fact that there are any Muslims -- no matter how statistically insignificant their numbers -- who consider these acts to be religious acts is in and of itself shocking. And therefore we as Muslims have to ask the question, 'How is it that our religious leadership has failed to reach these people with the true message of Islam?'' Because the acts of these criminals have indicted an entire religion in the hearts and minds of millions. Ultimately, this is a result of the bankruptcy of these type of people who claim to be adherents to the Islamic religion. These people are so bankrupt that all they have to offer is destruction.
It sounds noble and great but entirely misses the point. It's easy to condemn the bombers compared to the harder task of formally and persistently issuing fatwas against those who preach that hate and categorize themselves as true muslims. Attacking the preachers who conceive and spread the salafist memes used to justify these attacks is the heart of the Muslim duty to fight these extremists and he passes on a few opportunities to do it.
Just a few days ago, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the highest and most respected Islamic authority in the world, who resides in Egypt, also made this clear. The Grand Imam said that the Koran specifically forbids the kinds of things the Taliban and al-Qaida are guilty of. He said the jihad Usama bin Laden has called for against America is invalid and not binding on Muslims. He said that "Islam rejects all of these acts." He called terrorism un-Islamic. In fact, he says, "Killing innocent civilians is a horrific, hideous act that no religion can approve."
The condemnation is again of the acts, not the underlying theology, a theology that is making great strides in the muslim world carried far and wide via petrodollar donations to build mosques and fund imams.
Third link: This one is better but it's been three years since that conference discussed in the story and there seems little evidence that the imams have even made much of a dent in impressing on muslims the difference between commendable jihad and sinful irhab. You'd think all those moderate muslims might persuade Sheikh Hamad of Qatar, who funds and protects Al Jazeera to hold some religious instruction training for the news staff at Al Jazeera to impress upon them that they are promoting irhab on a regular basis. No go, apparently. Converting the commanding heights of muslim communication to a channel that properly uses irhab and jihad apparently not important enough to get done, maybe next year.
In the light of this evidence, the Taliban had no justification for continuing to protect bin Laden. Why protect him? Is he a saint or a prophet? He is a man who himself has admitted arranging car-bomb attacks on U.S. embassies. He is no saint."
But it misses the point that there was an infrastructure of teaching that produced OBL and the actions that he did. That, however, did not come in for the same condemnation. This is like pulling dandelion stems out but leaving the roots in. You know that you're not really attacking the problem, just today's symptom.
Fifth Link: You're quoting a Hezbollah imam as part of the solution? You've got to be joking. Hezbollah is part of the problem as their pimping for Syria after the Hariri assassination amply demonstrates. When Hezbollah and Al Queda fri
Congress has decided to abuse the plain english language and add a whole lot of legislative autotriggers to a declaration of war that actually uses the word "war" in it. Unless you think that wage and price controls are appropriate for the current hostilities (hint: they're not), Congress behaved appropriately when it didn't use that term in its declaration of war.
After WW II, Congress set up a legal structure that rolls into place the moment that we declare war. It includes things like price and wage controls and other drastic alterations to US SOP that are relevant when you're in a WW II type of situation. This is why the US never uses that language anymore. It triggers all sorts of legal changes that are inappropriate for lower levels of warfare.
Now I think that this stinks and is a linguistic abortion but it certainly explains why we find ourselves at war without an explicit use of the term war in the enabling legislation.
It was part of the negotiated transition out of the occupation and was meant to guard against a subsequent palestinian government backsliding on prior commitments. Sound familiar? Withholding the money means the system is working as it was designed to do. Israel already negotiated and gave concessions to get that in the interim agreements. They have a right to pull the trigger if Hamas refuses to abide by those agreements.
I do hope you realize that George Bush is a Methodist. That is not and never was a fundamentalist brand of christianity. It's not my cup of tea (I'm romanian byzantine catholic) but if you're going to make the methodists into an unreliable sect that also knocks Hillary out as she belongs to the same Church.
George Bush was elected by a lot of people. You can bet that if he was really in the pocket of the fundamentalists we wouldn't have 5 Catholics on the USSC, the first time that's happened. Christian fundamentalists aren't known for being fond of us papists.
President Ahmadenijad is undertaking physical preparations for the arrival of the Mahdi in a way that is clear and unmistakable. Contrary to your fantasies, this is unique on the political world stage today.
I was answering one point and you take me to task for not answering another? That's just bogus. The relationship between Jordan and Israel is probably more comfortable than the relationship between the US and France. Whether they're a republic or not has nothing to do with it. They do not wish Israel's destruction, especially Israel's nuclear destruction (check wind patterns). This makes them significantly different than Iran.
The justification for Israel is that England was in charge and they decided to draw the lines that way. The jewish zionists convinced England to do it with a number of lines of argument including that they had a multi-thousand year attachment to the place but the reason the lines were drawn as they were in 1947 was strictly colonial whim. Israel's 1948 and subsequent borders were established conventionally, by force of arms and treaty brokered territory concessions.
The millenia of occupation and connection is a very nice national myth but it wasn't the reason the lines were drawn that way. Jewish majority neighborhoods got included in Israel. The rest was supposed to be arab Palestine. Then there was a war...
I think they call that 24 hour propaganda station Al Jazeera.
As for war being officially declared, the US adopted a bunch of legislation right after WW II that puts us straight into a "emergency war for survival" legal regime. For instance, the Congress declares war and we immediately have price controls. It's automatic.
I think that this regime is incredibly stupid and would support reform so that we can officially declare war without triggering all that stuff but it's the real reason why we're not in a state of war today. The war we're in is not WW II style drop everything and mobilize the country.
Why would it surprise anyone that the elected President (yes, unlike our "allies" in the region, Iran is a functioning republic) would voice the widely held sentiment of his countrymen that Israel should be wiped from the map? Why is that even considered worth mentioning? Who in the region, except Israel, *doesn't* agree with that?
Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, for starters.
Turkey's Israel's military ally. Lebanon has ok relations with Israel, Jordan and Egypt both have peace treaties.
The myth is that Israel doesn't have friends in the ME. It's just not so.
Jesus' way is love and mercy. If you've given up on your lying, thieving, drunkard, glutton of a son, well, sure put him out of society's misery as an object lesson so that all may hear and fear. It's better than expelling the entire family to the desert without possessions so that they all die. The point of christianity is that you are never to run out of love and mercy so that you've given up on the guy. Forgive, forgive, and forgive again, not seven times seven but seventy times seven times.
The old testament has a lot of lifeboat survival rules in it. There's also a section on urban hygiene, if you look for it (I think Deuteronomy or Leviticus). The point of the entire work is to provide the rules for the salvation of the soul and that's something that the whole, not any single part, accomplishes.
If you pull out one of the lifeboat rules sections and examine it in isolation, you just don't get it.
Hitler was baptised Catholic and objectively ruled as a pagan, creating a nazi-aryan mythology that has no place in christianity.
Stalin, otoh, was an atheist, as was Mao and Pol Pot. Read the Black Book of Communism. It puts the atheist death toll at >100 million peacetime dead. That's not counting soldiers falling in conflict from the enemy.
Atheism is better than theism? Pull the other one.
By that standard no border line in the ME is safe from being redrawn. None of them are legitimate by any standard other than we (the West generally) were on top and we drew the line there.
The Ottoman empire died. It fought one last losing war and instead of having the victors battle over the spoils the League of Nations decided to try to do something better with the Mandate system. Lebanon was supposed to be a refuge for christians, Israel a refuge for jews. Jordan was for the muslims as were the 40 odd countries carved out of the old Ottoman territories.
So should we have established christian colonies all over the ME as would have been the norm under the prior rules?
There are two branches of judaism, Sephardic and Ashkenazi. Sephardic jews are from the ME, have lived all over the region including the current borders of Israel for millenia. They're locals and always have been. Ashkenazi do mostly trace back to Europe if you go back two hundred years but go back to the ME if you trace them back a millenia or two.
The sephardim were expelled and expropriated all over the ME, after the creation of Israel decimating historic populations that date back long before the birth of Islam. Right now, they're generally in Israel and generally voting Likud, the hardline party. The Ashkenazim which you call interlopers still dominate Labor, the most accommodationist party.
President Ahmadinejad believes that the Shia predicted end times are coming soon within his lifetime. That means that there must be a world-wide genocide of the jews according to his particular branch of the theolgy. Doesn't it make you feel dirty making common cause with that?
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um, There's been an outlook client on the Mac since forever. The Exchange group has been maintaining it but hasn't been advertising it. If you have an exchange setup, the client disk has a hidden mac partition on it that only shows the mac client. A large number of exchange admins don't even know it exists.
I see I touched a nerve.
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The majority of the people support growth, social stability, and getting on with their lives. CCP corruption holds back growth, promotes social instability, and has a better than even chance of returning the days of massive migrations of homeless fleeing calamity. The CCP is teetering on the edge of doing the jig and that's why it's running scared at the sight of a bunch of religious whackos.
The CCP oligarchy is mainly interested in not ending up doing a final public jig at the end of a rope attached to a lamp post. This is the secret behind why they repress Falun Gong. The FG actually got 10k people to show up at the homes of the major CCP figures and stage a protest as a complete surprise. If they had brought some rope and a bad attitude, that would have been the end of the regime, right there in a single, low-tech, decapitation strike.
Once you understand that this is the basic impulse driving the oligarchy, understanding the PRC becomes much easier.
I'm not fond of PRC censorship. I'm only a little less appalled at EU censorship. Alternatives to US control that reduce freedom of speech are *not attractive*.
For a lot of people, they can afford to be isolated from the PRC. The higher the barriers the CCP puts in place, the more people will be able to afford to be isolated because this sort of thing increases "the China price" and thus makes alternatives more attractive.
Walmart, if it wanted, could by itself shave off a point or two of PRC GDP. If the PRC pushes too hard, they will.
Or do you imagine that anybody is in the PRC because they like brutal asiatic dictatorships?
Straight line projections don't take into account that the PRC has demographically crippled itself. It's going to get old before it gets rich. I wouldn't worry so much about them taking over the world. I'd worry much more about them collapsing into 5-6 nuclear armed warlord states with unstable governments.
I would expect that my domain registrar will have arrangements with any decent sized root and register my company with any system that matters. If that means that they have to register once, twice, or even with five competing systems, I'll write a check and they'll do the work.
If you can run, you can escape a government. That is, unless it's the 1 world government and there's no space colonies. How do you escape that?
As a young child I escaped a government that believed in a whole laundry list of oppression. If one government came into being and fell into corruption (as every other government has done eventually) there would be no escape, just a nightmare of a Big Brother too big to ever overthrow.
No, it isn't a simple problem. Religion is like that. Inside my own faith, I engage in internal debate to reign in inappropriate conduct. All major faiths do this. When we fail, external discipline is applied by secular government and we're chided about failing in our duty.
Muslims should not be exempt from this process. As long as there are Islamist suicide bombers and terrorists all out of proportion to their population on the planet, there is going to be criticism because, objectively, whatever you are doing simply isn't working.
A for effort is just not enough. The pressure will ease off when the bodies stop falling. Is this really unreasonable? Do you really want muslims to be a "special case"? That's just setting yourself up for trouble over the long haul.
Look what happened to the jews. For centuries, christian kings would invite them in, use them as their tax collectors, the "outsiders" who did their dirty work and when they became inconvenient, they were killed and/or expelled. It's an awful bit of history. You don't want to fall in the same trap of being the outsider, the "special case". It can be a nice ride if you happen to be born at exactly the right time. It always ends up being very, very bad over the long haul.
There's a good case to be made that Pixar just bought Disney in much the same way that NeXT bought Apple. Look at the commanding heights of Apple Computer these days. Do you see the same crew that bought NeXT with a few NeXT survivors integrated into the management team or do you see the reverse with NeXT veterans dominating?
Why shouldn't Steve Job's *other* company try to replicate that success? Who cares what the nameplate says out front? If the technology, the management style, and the personnel shift to make Disney a Pixar writ large, who really bought who?
Thank you Mr. Pedant.
Seriously, there is a term of art "war" and a common use term "war". We're in the common use term "war" but not in the technical "war" state because we've set that particular word up for quick use in case of nuclear attack. We *are* at war.
Who is a civilian? How do you determine the justice of a particular killing? Osama bin Laden could read that document and, applying certain definitions of civilian (see US and state codes on what constitutes a militia) would likely declare that those people were not civilians and thus were legitimate targets. Attacks on Israeli targets that would normally be called civilian are similarly justified.
This isn't to say that the CAIR fatwa is disingenuous. It is merely loose enough that some definitional clarification is warranted.
As to the second one, I can't get at the article so I'll have to take you at your word that the 2nd link points to a fatwa that declares that excommunication is impossible. That is unilateral disarmament and disadvantages moderates far more than the extremists. Extremists will continue to excommunicate and pass sentences of death against moderates and the moderates will... what exactly?
If you have 5 admins adopting your system, that's 5 extra machines that are just sitting their as safety margin. If you have an administrator for the group, he can just take 1-2 machines and make them central "loaner" machines that might not have every possible tweak but will get the basic job done while your machine is being worked on. This way you have near zero downtime, your main machine can be moved to an empty workbench, and you can get your job done all while saving desk space and three machines.
This way you don't have to have any significant down time as you're only down when you're swapping hardware and that's just a few minutes, easily explained to users.
It sounds noble and great but entirely misses the point. It's easy to condemn the bombers compared to the harder task of formally and persistently issuing fatwas against those who preach that hate and categorize themselves as true muslims. Attacking the preachers who conceive and spread the salafist memes used to justify these attacks is the heart of the Muslim duty to fight these extremists and he passes on a few opportunities to do it.
Second link:
The condemnation is again of the acts, not the underlying theology, a theology that is making great strides in the muslim world carried far and wide via petrodollar donations to build mosques and fund imams.
Third link:
This one is better but it's been three years since that conference discussed in the story and there seems little evidence that the imams have even made much of a dent in impressing on muslims the difference between commendable jihad and sinful irhab. You'd think all those moderate muslims might persuade Sheikh Hamad of Qatar, who funds and protects Al Jazeera to hold some religious instruction training for the news staff at Al Jazeera to impress upon them that they are promoting irhab on a regular basis. No go, apparently. Converting the commanding heights of muslim communication to a channel that properly uses irhab and jihad apparently not important enough to get done, maybe next year.
Fourth Link:
Now it's useful to condemn OBL
But it misses the point that there was an infrastructure of teaching that produced OBL and the actions that he did. That, however, did not come in for the same condemnation. This is like pulling dandelion stems out but leaving the roots in. You know that you're not really attacking the problem, just today's symptom.
Fifth Link:
You're quoting a Hezbollah imam as part of the solution? You've got to be joking. Hezbollah is part of the problem as their pimping for Syria after the Hariri assassination amply demonstrates. When Hezbollah and Al Queda fri
Congress has decided to abuse the plain english language and add a whole lot of legislative autotriggers to a declaration of war that actually uses the word "war" in it. Unless you think that wage and price controls are appropriate for the current hostilities (hint: they're not), Congress behaved appropriately when it didn't use that term in its declaration of war.
After WW II, Congress set up a legal structure that rolls into place the moment that we declare war. It includes things like price and wage controls and other drastic alterations to US SOP that are relevant when you're in a WW II type of situation. This is why the US never uses that language anymore. It triggers all sorts of legal changes that are inappropriate for lower levels of warfare.
Now I think that this stinks and is a linguistic abortion but it certainly explains why we find ourselves at war without an explicit use of the term war in the enabling legislation.
It was part of the negotiated transition out of the occupation and was meant to guard against a subsequent palestinian government backsliding on prior commitments. Sound familiar? Withholding the money means the system is working as it was designed to do. Israel already negotiated and gave concessions to get that in the interim agreements. They have a right to pull the trigger if Hamas refuses to abide by those agreements.
I do hope you realize that George Bush is a Methodist. That is not and never was a fundamentalist brand of christianity. It's not my cup of tea (I'm romanian byzantine catholic) but if you're going to make the methodists into an unreliable sect that also knocks Hillary out as she belongs to the same Church.
George Bush was elected by a lot of people. You can bet that if he was really in the pocket of the fundamentalists we wouldn't have 5 Catholics on the USSC, the first time that's happened. Christian fundamentalists aren't known for being fond of us papists.
President Ahmadenijad is undertaking physical preparations for the arrival of the Mahdi in a way that is clear and unmistakable. Contrary to your fantasies, this is unique on the political world stage today.
I was answering one point and you take me to task for not answering another? That's just bogus. The relationship between Jordan and Israel is probably more comfortable than the relationship between the US and France. Whether they're a republic or not has nothing to do with it. They do not wish Israel's destruction, especially Israel's nuclear destruction (check wind patterns). This makes them significantly different than Iran.
The justification for Israel is that England was in charge and they decided to draw the lines that way. The jewish zionists convinced England to do it with a number of lines of argument including that they had a multi-thousand year attachment to the place but the reason the lines were drawn as they were in 1947 was strictly colonial whim. Israel's 1948 and subsequent borders were established conventionally, by force of arms and treaty brokered territory concessions.
The millenia of occupation and connection is a very nice national myth but it wasn't the reason the lines were drawn that way. Jewish majority neighborhoods got included in Israel. The rest was supposed to be arab Palestine. Then there was a war...
I think they call that 24 hour propaganda station Al Jazeera.
As for war being officially declared, the US adopted a bunch of legislation right after WW II that puts us straight into a "emergency war for survival" legal regime. For instance, the Congress declares war and we immediately have price controls. It's automatic.
I think that this regime is incredibly stupid and would support reform so that we can officially declare war without triggering all that stuff but it's the real reason why we're not in a state of war today. The war we're in is not WW II style drop everything and mobilize the country.
Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, for starters.
Turkey's Israel's military ally. Lebanon has ok relations with Israel, Jordan and Egypt both have peace treaties.
The myth is that Israel doesn't have friends in the ME. It's just not so.
Jesus' way is love and mercy. If you've given up on your lying, thieving, drunkard, glutton of a son, well, sure put him out of society's misery as an object lesson so that all may hear and fear. It's better than expelling the entire family to the desert without possessions so that they all die. The point of christianity is that you are never to run out of love and mercy so that you've given up on the guy. Forgive, forgive, and forgive again, not seven times seven but seventy times seven times.
The old testament has a lot of lifeboat survival rules in it. There's also a section on urban hygiene, if you look for it (I think Deuteronomy or Leviticus). The point of the entire work is to provide the rules for the salvation of the soul and that's something that the whole, not any single part, accomplishes.
If you pull out one of the lifeboat rules sections and examine it in isolation, you just don't get it.
Hitler was baptised Catholic and objectively ruled as a pagan, creating a nazi-aryan mythology that has no place in christianity.
Stalin, otoh, was an atheist, as was Mao and Pol Pot. Read the Black Book of Communism. It puts the atheist death toll at >100 million peacetime dead. That's not counting soldiers falling in conflict from the enemy.
Atheism is better than theism? Pull the other one.
By that standard no border line in the ME is safe from being redrawn. None of them are legitimate by any standard other than we (the West generally) were on top and we drew the line there.
The Ottoman empire died. It fought one last losing war and instead of having the victors battle over the spoils the League of Nations decided to try to do something better with the Mandate system. Lebanon was supposed to be a refuge for christians, Israel a refuge for jews. Jordan was for the muslims as were the 40 odd countries carved out of the old Ottoman territories.
So should we have established christian colonies all over the ME as would have been the norm under the prior rules?
There are two branches of judaism, Sephardic and Ashkenazi. Sephardic jews are from the ME, have lived all over the region including the current borders of Israel for millenia. They're locals and always have been. Ashkenazi do mostly trace back to Europe if you go back two hundred years but go back to the ME if you trace them back a millenia or two.
The sephardim were expelled and expropriated all over the ME, after the creation of Israel decimating historic populations that date back long before the birth of Islam. Right now, they're generally in Israel and generally voting Likud, the hardline party. The Ashkenazim which you call interlopers still dominate Labor, the most accommodationist party.
President Ahmadinejad believes that the Shia predicted end times are coming soon within his lifetime. That means that there must be a world-wide genocide of the jews according to his particular branch of the theolgy. Doesn't it make you feel dirty making common cause with that?