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2003-12-18 Arabia

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-18 00:23|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is gonna be a really looooong War.

Posted by Mark 2003-12-18 6:47:38 AM|| 2003-12-18 6:47:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Shariah is the problem, not the solution.

This war will not be really won until Arabs have to look up shariah, fatwa, and jihad in a dictionary because the terms have fallen into disuse.

Yup, it's gonna be a long war.

Posted by Dave D. 2003-12-18 7:23:09 AM|| 2003-12-18 7:23:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Long ? How long DOES it take to drag a civilization kicking and screaming out of the iron age ?

Posted by eyeyeye 2003-12-18 7:56:50 AM|| 2003-12-18 7:56:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 How long DOES it take to drag a civilization kicking and screaming out of the iron age

A generation or more.

Posted by rkb 2003-12-18 8:21:41 AM|| 2003-12-18 8:21:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 At least their position is consistent: If all countries implement sharia, the Islamonuts won't be tempted to boom the infidels who insist on living free.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-18 9:38:12 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-12-18 9:38:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is a extremely belated and logical attempt to remake Islam from a horizontal helter-skelter mob of local loose-cannon Imams issuing fatwas all over the place and paying only lip service to the Grand Doodahs into a new sleek modern vertical power structure with consolidated power and control over their future and PR.

The con-man's version of Pyramid Power. Only took them 1400 years to figure it out. F**kin' Duh.

Posted by .com 2003-12-18 11:10:08 AM|| 2003-12-18 11:10:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 How long DOES it take to drag a civilization kicking and screaming out of the iron age?
First of all, you have to actually get them INTO the Iron age. Nothing the Arab states are using, including their religion, originates with them. Everything is borrowed (or stolen), down to the iron-age implements they stole from the Romans to wage their first "Holy Wars". Without the advancements of the Turks, they would STILL be wandering nomads, living in tents off camels and goats. Until the basic character of the nomad/herder "I can take anything I come across and use it" self-centered "our society needs to rule the world because our hearts are pure" idiots are purged from Islam, it will be a problem. As long as Islam is a problem, there will be war between its followers and people who have a different idea about how to live. That's very simplistic, very heavily edited to save Fred's bandwidth, but that's what we're up against. Two hundred years may not be enough. We may have to end up locking these people away in their own tiny little garrisons and leaving them to their own idiocies, because they are either incapable of changing, or unwilling to take the necessary steps.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-18 12:22:55 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-18 12:22:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, you gotta admit... they are the experts.

Posted by tu3031 2003-12-18 10:36:02 PM|| 2003-12-18 10:36:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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