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2011-11-12 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 ...like when they hosted and Televised Samir Kuntar's Birthday Party ? ( Oh wait , in the long view that worked well for ' Infidelity ' ). It identified the enemy .

Posted by Preptile 2011-11-12 07:29|| Preptile.com 2011-11-12 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a difference between people fighting for freedom and people fighting to force their religion down everyone's throat.

Posted by Creregum Glolump8403 2011-11-12 08:25|| 2011-11-12 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 CG, that's not true, they are both the same in a post-modern, relativistic, it's all about perspective sort of view, right?

Posted by AlanC 2011-11-12 10:26|| 2011-11-12 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a difference between people fighting for freedom and people fighting to force their religion down everyone's throat.

Sometimes that is, indeed, true. But sometimes the freedom being fought for is the freedom to force one's religion - whether a certain branch of Islam or Communism or whatever it is that the Occupy Wall Streeters think they're on about -- down everyone's throat for their own good. The question on is, is freedom defined as being left alone to rule themselves, or becoming the top dog instead of the underdog? In both cases freedom from rule by others is the first step, but after that the differences between the American revolution and the French revolution is very stark -- not to mention the Iranian revolution...

Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-12 13:46|| 2011-11-12 13:46|| Front Page Top

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