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2005-01-27 Caribbean-Latin America

Islam Gains Toehold in Mexico's Zapatista Country

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Posted by ed 2005-01-27 08:53|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yet another example of more anger converts to islam. The angry and disenfranchised will always take any alternative no matter what it happens to be. They swallow hook line and sinker the first alternative to come along. Such is the case here. If these folks had come in contact with Moonie missionaries or any other kind of missionary first, they would have converted to that instead of islam and would have claimed to have found complete satisfaction in those faiths too. The point is rebellion from the culture. As long as the convert feels they are sticking it in the eye of the culture they have rejected, they are happy. Although islam seems to be particularly attractive to the angry people of this world maybe thats because it is so angry at the non-islamic world all the time.

Posted by peggy 2005-01-27 11:30:13 AM|| 2005-01-27 11:30:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 No one has learned ANYTHING from the french revolution OR the USSR.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-01-27 12:20:02 PM|| 2005-01-27 12:20:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Founded by a Scotsman who turned to Islam during a stay in Morocco in the 1960s, the Murabitun are from the orthodox Sunni branch of Islam but have incorporated some mystical Sufi practices. They are highly critical of the charging of interest rates as un-Islamic and advocate scrapping currencies, taxes and the nation state, to be replaced with Islamic emirates trading in gold coins. "Our model is not ideological or utopian but is based on the life of our Prophet Mohammad," reads a statement on the group's Mexican web site.

Well that's all right then. I'm vastly reassured.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-27 12:45:00 PM|| 2005-01-27 12:45:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 No gold coins from Saudi Arabia by any chance?

Posted by True German Ally 2005-01-27 5:55:29 PM|| 2005-01-27 5:55:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Peggy, Islam differs from such cults as the Moonies and the CNN audience in that allegiance will bring a continuing flow of arms, money, trained terrorists, money, international status and, we shouldn't forget, money.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-27 7:56:23 PM|| 2005-01-27 7:56:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I almost mentioned the continuous supply of wide-eyed hippy activist chicks as another benefit of Islamo-fascist allegiance, but the Moonies and Chomskyites (though not CNN) can supply those as well.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-27 7:59:35 PM|| 2005-01-27 7:59:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think you understated the amount of money they can bring in by converting to Islam.

And, seriously, I'd rather they returned to their old gods. Less destructive, more civilized.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-01-27 8:01:20 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-01-27 8:01:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 With Islamo-fascist resources added to those of the established Zapatista guerrilla movement, the potential for widely expanded violence is very high.

In particular, the Zapatistas have an experienced and active support network among the usual suspects in this country (campus commies, lefty churches, ANSWER, etc.).

This is already cross-linked with the Islamic fifth column and would provide a very dangerous terror/subversion network once the two are fully integrated.

We are seeing more and more of this kind of alliance, not just the "Red-Brown" type, but increasing integration among various lefty causes themselves. The eventual result will be a kind of Grand Unified Moonbat (G.U.M.) network.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-27 8:26:48 PM|| 2005-01-27 8:26:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 During the initial Zapatista uprising in 1994, there were verified reports that several captured guerrillas had been beaten and shot in cold blood by Mexican troops. The global media made much of this, and there is no excuse for it, but they left out some background. During the initial counter-attack, the first army unit to reach the area was driven back. Unfortunately, a wounded soldier (a 19 year old conscript) was left behind and hideously tortured to death by the guerrillas. The army held back on orders from Mexico City. Their positions were close enough for the soldiers to to see the guerrillas taunting them with their comrade's mutilated remains. This went on for a couple of days before another attack was launched, the body was recovered and the young conscripts took revenge. Again, this is inexcusable but so was leaving out this background information.
My source for this is a former Mexican infantryman who was there, and it has been verified by others, including civilian witnesses.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-27 8:43:31 PM|| 2005-01-27 8:43:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing to fear here.Zapatistas will not convert to Islam,period.

Posted by crazyhorse 2005-01-27 11:04:53 PM|| 2005-01-27 11:04:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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