The West is conquering the Islamic Culture?? GOOD!!!

[PuppetMaster]

Hand a teenage raghead a Brittany Spears Poster and he'll throw his Koran like a Johnny Unitas 50 yard pass into the read sea.

If Christianity gets an 8 on a ten-point stupidity scale, where does Islam fall? Off the charts??

The Dictators of the MiddleEast are basically Dark-Skined Westerners pretending to be Islamic.

They use Islam to control the masses.

But try explaining this to Sean Penn....

[GWB]

This sounds like a veiled argument for pornography.

Not gonna happen - not on my watch.

[spamuell]

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If Christianity gets an 8 on a ten-point stupidity scale, where does Islam fall? Off the charts??


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What values are you using to measure "stupidity"? Not your Western values, surely?

Your scale is as meaningless as a fascist giving everything that's not Nazism a low score on a "stupidity scale".

[Rushmore]

Please stop. You're hurting the credibility of those of us who believe even a small measure of what you were trying to say.

[MMMMMM]

"What values are you using to measure "stupidity"? Not your Western values, surely?"

Yes, just "Western" values like: equality of rights for people regardless of their religion; equality of rights for women; that the country's Constitution should not be an ancient religious text; that religious "crimes" should not be punishable by state law; that religious clerics do not possess the highest legal authority in matters civil and criminal; that it is not a crime punishable by death to apostatize; and oh, a handful of other not-so-important "Western" values. After all, if everything is relative nothing can be any better than anything else and every value system is of equal intrinsic value, right? NOT

Also, as for measuring "stupidity" itself: I should think one's proclivity to blow himself up in blind belief of what his religious leader tells him, and that it will lead him straightway to Paradise and 72 virgins, should be a rather telling measure of stupidity by any account.

[Gamblor]

Also, as for measuring "stupidity" itself: I should think one's proclivity to blow himself up in blind belief of what his religious leader tells him, and that it will lead him straightway to Paradise and 72 virgins, should be a rather telling measure of stupidity by any account.

That culture is not inherent in these people's beliefs, nor do all people consider the 72 virgins promised by the Koran to be the singular reason why they do it.

The organizations that bring these people to commit such acts are necessarily political in nature. They have certain ideas that they want implemented. They have determined that the only way to achieve their goals is through terrorism, and to convince people to commit such crimes, they must convince them that it is the only way to achieve the goal.

I don't think Arabs are born with the desire to kill themselves and as many innocents as they can, but only after a lifetime (in some cases, 15 years) of hearing how

1) the only way to achieve your goal and be happy is to kill the enemy, and

2) and the only way to kill the enemy is to take yourself with them

they are happily strapping bombs to their chests.

What makes the situation so abominable is that they are murdering innocent people, not the death cult in and of itself. After all, a suicide bombing in and of itself is no worse or better than opening fire in a Colorado high school. The difference is that there are people actively recruiting the former, while the latter worked themselves.

The goal itself may or may not be valid (I tend to think the latter), but it is the method that makes the organizers and perpetrators sub-human.

[Bill Murphy]

[ThaSaltCracka]

Bush, I love your location. So you have been taking a hiatus from poker while you work on your re-election campaign. So all you do is play poker and campaign? no wonder everything is so screwd up.

[GWB]

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Bush, I love your location. So you have been taking a hiatus from poker while you work on your re-election campaign. So all you do is play poker and campaign? no wonder everything is so screwd up.

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I thought you knew that Dick, Rummy, John, and Condaleeza run the country. But I get to give the speeches.