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2005-08-18 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Steve 2005-08-18 10:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Strategypage doesn't acknowledge the ethnic cleansing that has taken place in Bangladesh since 1970. At that time about 30% of the population was non-Muslim. They have gradually been choked, beaten down, abused, oppressed, etc.

He also doesn't acknowledge the continuing oppression of the Ahmadiyas (who consider themselves Muslim but who aren't considered so by the Sunnis). This oppression has had, on occasion, govt. support.

Posted by mhw 2005-08-18 10:43|| 2005-08-18 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 At independence, Pakistan was 18% Hindu. Now it is less than 1%. Is their a pattern I detect?

Posted by ed 2005-08-18 11:08|| 2005-08-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The lands that make up Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Libyia, Morocco, etc. were once majority Christian.

Yeah, there's a pattern.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-18 12:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-18 12:53|| Front Page Top

#4 First the Sihks, Christians and Hindus, then the Ahymaddis.
The Shia will be next.
It will then be the turn of the Barelvi Sunnis.
Only the rabid Deobandis and Wahhabis will remain in the Lands of the Pure.

Posted by john 2005-08-18 13:23|| 2005-08-18 13:23|| Front Page Top

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