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reply posted on 16-9-2012 @ 10:07 AM by Battleline
reply to post by Tw0Sides
I was affarid if I mantioned the messiah's name it would bring the "shills" out.

I guess you figure if the idiots before Obama were bad then its OK for Obama to be even worse and that makes it right. Why to befend your boss,....................whats the matter, your cubical closing in on you!


reply posted on 16-9-2012 @ 12:54 PM by beezzer
Originally posted by Battleline
reply to post by Tw0Sides
I was affarid if I mantioned the messiah's name it would bring the "shills" out.

I guess you figure if the idiots before Obama were bad then its OK for Obama to be even worse and that makes it right. Why to befend your boss,....................whats the matter, your cubical closing in on you!



Islamic extremists have been attacking and assailing the west for decades, centuries. One president didn't do this.

Although if a pesident shows weakness, the extremists will take advantage.


reply posted on 16-9-2012 @ 05:09 PM by Battleline
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by Battleline
reply to post by Tw0Sides
I was affarid if I mantioned the messiah's name it would bring the "shills" out.

I guess you figure if the idiots before Obama were bad then its OK for Obama to be even worse and that makes it right. Why to befend your boss,....................whats the matter, your cubical closing in on you!



Islamic extremists have been attacking and assailing the west for decades, centuries. One president didn't do this.

Although if a pesident shows weakness, the extremists will take advantage.
Thank you, my point exactly just not quite as eloquent.

i can't stand these people that think just because the past presidents were wingnut's that its ok for this one to be worse.......................how many wrongs(fails) before we get a right??..............no pun intended.



reply posted on 16-9-2012 @ 07:01 PM by ipsedixit
I've defended Islam numerous times in these forums. I think that much of the so called Islamic agression going on is a reaction to Western economic, military and cultural encroachments.

People have a right to their culture and ways of life. In North America over the last few decades there has been a resurgence of aboriginal North American culture among the so called "first nations". I'm all for that. It is a welcome development, in my opinion. I don't see the sentiment in the Middle East, among Muslims as being that different from the sentiment among the people of the "first nations" or the sentiment among Tibetans in relation to encroachments on their culture by China.

These various peoples are feeling the pinch of other cultures to varying degrees, but the underlying reactions are coming from the same point of origin, pressure to change to meet the requirements of expansionist cultures.

Maybe America is starting to feel the pinch of the "blowback". That is not necessarily a bad thing.

Behavior modification, when it is actually an improvement in behavior and not coerced, is a good thing, but having said that, people should be free to express themselves, no matter where they are. The idea that Salmon Rushdie should have to have police protection for years because he wrote a novel interpreted as criticizing Mohammed is deplorable.

Any religion that has to enforce its religious etiquette with military force has serious problems. Keeping people in a state of constant fear of the religious police has created a situation in Pakistan and other places where terribly unjust reprisals have been exacted from people, some of them very young or even mentally deficient, who were guilty of completely innocent lapses or minor infractions of Islamic "etiquette".

When a school teacher beats a 12 year old girl for what is essentially a spelling mistake and then her family has to move out of town for fear of their lives, you can bet that that teacher and that town are petrified of the religious police, petrified that if they are not as extreme as the religous police, that they themselves might be the next victim of of the police.

Living in a police state must be hell but living in a religious police state must be hell on wheels.



When American officials demonstrate sensitivity and good manners, they should be applauded. It takes strength of character to apologize for offense, especially when the one issuing the apology is not really at fault. That's diplomacy.
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