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2004-02-29

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Posted by Steve White 2004-02-29 01:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 typical AP headline
should have said, 'Nigerian Muslim slaughter Christians'

Posted by mhw 2004-2-29 9:37:59 AM|| 2004-2-29 9:37:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Strange Kofi Annan logic...

Israel builds a wall, less Jews are being killed, U.N. goes ballistic...

'Nigerian Muslims slaughter Christians' (I like mhw's headline better)...nothing but the sound of crickets...

Posted by Dripping sarcasm 2004-2-29 9:50:50 AM|| 2004-2-29 9:50:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 What's the exchange rate between Christian lives and Palestinian lives?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-29 10:23:36 AM|| 2004-2-29 10:23:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps it is time to aid in the division of Nigeria (and Sudan, and Ivory Coast, and ...) into a Muslim north and a Christian (and animist) south. The country is disfunctional as it is. Also, any new state of Southern Nigeria would have ALL the oil. In 1967, SE Nigeria (the oil land) did opt for independence (as Biafra), and was then starved into submission. The Biafrans didn't get much help from anyone, the consensus being that geopolitical stability was needed in Africa. Do we still believe that?

Posted by closet neo-con 2004-2-29 11:42:28 AM|| 2004-2-29 11:42:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 closet-neo-con

Good idea but I think it has to be generalized. No longer allow Muslim states to get the oil belonging to Christian minorities (eg split Nigeria, Sudan), no longer allow Arabs to get the oil belonging to non-Arabs (ie the Algerian Berbers, the Irqui Kurds), no longer allow Wahabis stealing oil from non-Wahabi territory (ie split Saudi Arabi)

Posted by JFM 2004-2-29 1:13:23 PM|| 2004-2-29 1:13:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Nothing's going to change until the world finally understands that Islam is a terrorist organization, and Wahabbi Islam is the worst flavor of that group of nutcases. There will be this kind of violence as long as Saudi Arabia (and a few other select, rich countries) provides the money for it. The first stop needs to be made in Riyadh, followed by a total smashing of Mecca and Medina and the end of the Mohammedan Death Cult.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-29 1:56:25 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-29 1:56:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 JFM -- I tend to agree, at least in the case of Saudi Arabia. It might not be that hard to break up. The oil-producing areas in the east have lots of (brutally oppressed) Shi'ites (and if we could arrange a regime change in Tehran, Shi'ism might even become our ally in this struggle). Mecca and Medina are in the Hejaz, an area that had been ruled by the Hashemites (our sometimes friends in Jordan) before Ibn Saud conquered it in the 1920s. Same with Asir in the SW -- the only part of SA with decent rains. That would leave the Saudis and the Wahabbis with the rock and sand of central Arabia and not much more.

Old Patriot --- I can understand why you say that, but I don't think that it would be good strategy. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and they are not all terror supporters. Much better to exploit the cleavages in the world of Islam to our advantage. We did this on the Cold War, after all, even to the extent of subsidizing Marxoid Social Democratic intellectuals in western Europe.

Posted by closet neo-con 2004-2-29 2:17:35 PM|| 2004-2-29 2:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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