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Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran
Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012 edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/us-afghanistan-korans-idUSTRE81K09T20120221 Sorry if there is another thread on this. I went back two days and didn't see one. I can never understand what makes some Muslims think that the whole world should honor their holy book while at the same time, they have less than zero regard for the religious sensitivities of non-Muslims. If you want respect, you have to give respect.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by italianstallion* on Tue Feb 21 18:48:39 2012, in response to Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Devout Muslims are at about the same stage of development and awareness regarding the primacy of their religion as devout Christians were about 600 or more years ago. Considering their religion was founded 600 years after Christianity, it's not surprising. (BTW, this is not meant as an excuse.)
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Olog-hai* on Tue Feb 21 22:03:36 2012, in response to Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d I went back two days and didn't see one Kinda hard to see one from two days ago when the story's dated 2/21 and you post it on 2/21, yes . . . ? I can never understand what makes some Muslims think that the whole world should honor their holy book while at the same time, they have less than zero regard for the religious sensitivities of non-Muslims. If you want respect, you have to give respect Well, if you can "never understand" it, then maybe you should read what's in the Koran that the Mullahs and other "scholars" quote over and over (context highly debatable) that justifies such an attitude for them.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by grand concourse* on Tue Feb 21 23:38:34 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 21 22:03:36 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Why is the US still there? after OBL was killed, the mission should've been over and let that place turn back to its '6th century state'. There's no hope for people like that going apeshit nuts over a fucking 'holy book'. Other than the really backwards people in the south that might get as crazy if the bible was burned, no civilized people should ever react violently over 'a book'.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by LuchAAA* on Tue Feb 21 23:42:07 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Tue Feb 21 23:38:34 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Other than the really backwards people in the south That makes no sense.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by grand concourse* on Tue Feb 21 23:49:48 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Feb 21 23:42:07 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Maybe it's not very extreme as the radical muslims, but there are radicals: KKK, neo nazis, etc. Maybe not just the south, but that's where they tend to be.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by LuchAAA* on Tue Feb 21 23:54:21 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Tue Feb 21 23:49:48 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d the bible and Jesus are mocked constantly and no one does a thing about it. Not the KKK. Not the radicals.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Olog-hai* on Tue Feb 21 23:58:53 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Tue Feb 21 23:38:34 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Why is the US still there? after OBL was killed, the mission should've been over and let that place turn back to its '6^th century state' You mean let the Taliban have a moral, military and political victory and take over the country again?
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Train Dude* on Wed Feb 22 00:09:06 2012, in response to Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d I think that you can very loosely compare their attitudes to the Christian attitudes of the 11th, 12th and 13th Centuries. The Crusades were a very brutal time and the soldiers had the blessings of the Pope. Of course, that was 1,000 years ago and we would have hoped the world has progressed beyond that but the radical Muslim still lives in the 14th Century, mentality-wise. Hopefully they too will evolve in time.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by grand concourse* on Wed Feb 22 00:09:24 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Feb 21 23:54:21 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d I'm just covering my basis about radicals of the religion. I did also say the radical muslims are probably the worst because of news like this. Burn a Koran and the world is set on fire literally.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by grand concourse* on Wed Feb 22 00:13:09 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 21 23:58:53 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Better that than spending billions keeping the 'infestation' at bay. All the US is doing is acting as the dam holding back the taliban. Eventually the US will have to cut its financial losses and just give up. I get it that it's not always great to admit defeat, but that area is basically a wasteland with opium as its main export. Nothing to gain by staying there. At least Iraq has oil, but the US already cleared out of there.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Feb 22 00:19:39 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Wed Feb 22 00:13:09 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Better that than spending billions keeping the 'infestation' at bay How about spending millions and crushing the Taliban once and for all? It's the libs holding the troops back.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Feb 22 00:20:50 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by Train Dude on Wed Feb 22 00:09:06 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d That would take them abandoning certain passages of the Koran and many Hadiths. Since most of them believe that they were revealed by Allah, that won't happen too soon.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Feb 22 00:21:17 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Wed Feb 22 00:09:24 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Then it's not just the "radicals".
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by SelkirkTMO* on Wed Feb 22 00:24:28 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Feb 22 00:19:39 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d But then we'd have to raise taxes ...
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by GP38/R42 Chris* on Wed Feb 22 03:43:19 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Feb 21 23:42:07 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d No it doesn't, but somehow radical Muslims always have to try to be compared to them....don't know why, as as annoying as Southern religious nuts are, they aren't nearly as nuts as radical islam.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by GP38/R42 Chris* on Wed Feb 22 03:44:26 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Wed Feb 22 00:09:24 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d And the same doesn't happen in the case of the Southern religious nuts, so don't know why you felt the need to drag them into the discussion.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by SelkirkTMO* on Wed Feb 22 03:44:30 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Feb 22 03:43:19 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Unless you're a gynecologist. :(
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by SelkirkTMO* on Wed Feb 22 03:45:36 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Feb 22 03:44:26 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Have you ever lived in the Carolinas or elsewhere in the south? You ARE what church you attend, and woe be ye if it's not one they approve of, or if they don't see you there. :(
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Feb 22 03:48:48 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Feb 21 23:42:07 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d No, it actually doesn't.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Mitch45* on Wed Feb 22 08:08:12 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 21 22:03:36 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d "Kinda hard to see one from two days ago when the story's dated 2/21 and you post it on 2/21, yes . . . ?" The story was dated 2/21 but that doesn't mean the event occurred on 2/21. The news outlet could have posted the story a day or two after it actually happened and one of the sharpies on this site could have posted it from another source right after it happened. Just didn't want to run afoul of the bandwidth police around here.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by Mitch45* on Wed Feb 22 08:10:26 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by italianstallion on Tue Feb 21 18:48:39 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d The difference now is that Christianity is a lot more well-organized today than Islam was in the Middle Ages, when the Christians were burning people at the stake for heresy. This isn't going to end well, especially for Jews. We always get caught in the crossfire. When the First Crusade was set up to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Crusaders killed every Jew they saw on the way up.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by JayMan* on Wed Feb 22 09:03:22 2012, in response to Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d They're simple people, what do you expect?
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by JayMan* on Wed Feb 22 09:08:16 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by italianstallion on Tue Feb 21 18:48:39 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d More like 1,000-1,500 years ago. At least 600 years ago most Christians were already fairly outbred...
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by JayMan* on Wed Feb 22 09:09:56 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Feb 21 23:42:07 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Actually, it does.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by JayMan* on Wed Feb 22 09:11:40 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Feb 21 23:54:21 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Really?
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by JayMan* on Wed Feb 22 09:13:55 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by Train Dude on Wed Feb 22 00:09:06 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d A long time. Let's just say that they don't seem to taking steps in the right direction right now.
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by JayMan* on Wed Feb 22 09:15:55 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by grand concourse on Wed Feb 22 00:13:09 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Very good point. I think we should retain a small presence there so we can easily rout out any serious terrorist organization that tries to get going, but as far as the futile "nation building" effort, we should let that go...
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Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran
Posted by grand concourse* on Wed Feb 22 11:04:07 2012, in response to Re: Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran, posted by JayMan on Wed Feb 22 09:15:55 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Agreed.
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New, more suitable "apology" (Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran)
Posted by Olog-hai* on Sun Feb 26 12:34:56 2012, in response to Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Much better.
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Re: New, more suitable ''apology'' (Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran)
Posted by trains61* on Sun Feb 26 14:27:48 2012, in response to New, more suitable "apology" (Afghans Riot Over ''Desecration'' of Koran), posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 26 12:34:56 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d +1000
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Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning
Posted by Olog-hai* on Mon Mar 5 21:16:38 2012, in response to Afghans Riot Over "Desecration" of Koran, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Feb 21 18:19:45 2012.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Yeah sure. (Figured it's better to post this before some lib starts in with it . . .) Al-Reuters al-link More than half of Americans back Obama's Koran apology By Missy Ryan Mon Mar 5, 2012 6:42pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) — More than half of Americans support President Barack Obama's apology for U.S. troops burning copies of the Koran, an incident that triggered a spate of bloody protests and attacks on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, 56 percent of those surveyed backed Obama, who has been criticized by U.S. Republican presidential candidates for apologizing to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Twenty-three percent disagreed. While the spasm of violence that erupted following the incident on a NATO base in Afghanistan does not appear to have significantly altered Americans' perspective on the war, 66 percent of those polled also said Washington should bring its troops home immediately. Obama's formal apology and the debate that decision created have underscored the delicate course the president must tread in his campaign for re-election in November. Afghanistan and other foreign policy issues are sure to take a backseat to the economy in the campaign but Obama is loath to give Republicans more ammunition in the crucial months before the elections. The poll, conducted from March 2 to March 5, showed that far more Democrats supported Obama's apology, with 76 percent of them saying Obama made the right decision. Only 37 percent of Republicans backed the apology, and almost half said Obama was not right to do so. Some 53 percent of independents supported the apology. In keeping with calls from Capitol Hill, Democrats surveyed professed even less support than Republicans for a continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Some 76 percent of Democrats said U.S. troops should be withdrawn immediately, compared with 53 percent of Republicans. Seventy percent of independents favored an immediate withdrawal. The poll included 1,143 Americans interviewed online. The poll had a credibility interval of 3.4 percentage points. Obama cannot allow the outcry over the Koran incident and other NATO missteps to undermine tentative security gains, weakening his ability to point to a series of security successes such as the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, or worsen tensions with the mercurial Karzai government. His decision received extra scrutiny when, several days later, two U.S. officers were shot dead by an Afghan inside the Afghan Interior Ministry, one of a spate of so-called 'insider' attacks on NATO forces since the Koran burnings took place. The Koran burnings could be behind the death of up to six American soldiers. On Monday, a suicide bomber killed at least two civilians at the gates of the base where the Korans were burned. The Taliban said the attack was an act of 'revenge. Underlying the debate over Obama's apology are even larger questions about the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, where over 10 years after the Taliban government was toppled the militant group remains a potent enemy. Obama plans to pull all of the 33,000 troops he deployed in 2009-10, credited with turning around the long-neglected campaign in Afghanistan, by this fall, leaving around 68,000 U.S. troops. Most foreign combat troops are due to withdraw by the end of 2014. (Editing by Warren Strobel and Eric Walsh)
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Re: Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning
Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Mar 5 21:40:16 2012, in response to Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 5 21:16:38 2012. edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d America is a very leftist nation so I'm not surprised.
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Re: Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning
Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 5 21:40:39 2012, in response to Re: Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Mar 5 21:40:16 2012. edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d This is the leftist media. Take it with a grain of salt.
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Re: Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning
Posted by italianstallion on Mon Mar 5 23:21:24 2012, in response to Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 5 21:16:38 2012. edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d We don't need some poll to show us we are right.
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Re: Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning
Posted by orange blossom special on Tue Mar 6 19:54:35 2012, in response to Re: Al-Reuters poll claims that over half of Americans support Obama apology over Koran burning, posted by italianstallion on Mon Mar 5 23:21:24 2012. edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, the same majority that are atheists ad think religion should be banned want an apology for burning already desecrated by muslims korans. You people are so coherent. No wonder you are converting to Islam in mass numbers.
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