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[Vlad Tepes] Islam Hates You all. Get used to it.: The New York Times (June 26, 2008) reported on the murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho, and how the Iraqi Christian population has been subjected to a return of dhimmitude, and re-application of the jizya, “the tax paid in lieu of being .
[HYPERCRYPTON] Christian Greek-Orthodox Martyrs: The treaty's terms changed not long after the ink dried as England, France and Italy each began secretly bargaining with Mustafa Kemel (Ataturk) in order to gain the right to exploit oil fields in the Mozul (now Iraq). Betrayed by the Allied Powers, the Greek military front, after 40 long months of war, collapsed and retreated as the Turks began again to occupy Asia Minor.
[American Armageddon] Separatism and Empire Building. The new tools.: US backed separatist movements follow a step-by-step process, beginning with calls for ”˜greater autonomy’ and ”˜decentralization’, essentially tactical moves to gain a local political power base, accumulate economic revenues, repress anti-separatist groups and local ethnic/religious, political minorities with ties to the central government (as in the oppression of the Christian communities in northern Iraq repressed by the Kurdish separatists for their long ties with the Central Baath Party or the Roma of Kosova expelled and killed by the Kosova Albanians because of their support of the Yugoslav federal system). The attempt to forcibly usurp local resources and the ousting of local allies of the central government results in confrontations and conflict with the legitimate power of the central government.
[Western Resistance] UK: Going To The Dogs Over Muslim Sensitivities?: Chinese Buddhists, Indian Hindus and Sikhs have migrated to Britain, and none are demanding that Britain's laws and status quo be abandoned to suit their particular demands. Admittedly many Muslims, such as the eminently reasonable and genuinely moderate Muslim MP Khalid Mahmood have argued that they do not wish for sharia law.
[Informed Comment] Arab World Concerned about Iraqi Constitution Ar...: The diction in the constitution is that Iraq is part of the "Muslim world" but then it says that "its Arabs form part of the Arab world." The Kurds objected to Iraq being called part of the Arab world, since they deeply resent the Baath Party's attempt to Arabize them. I figure Iraq is about 74 percent Arab.
[Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print] Theocratic Iraq Mirrors Old Theocratic West: Where are the right wing American Christians now that their own President is pushing for a legal document to make Christians in Iraq second class citizens? I wonder if American Christian fundamentalists really don’t care what religion is given power over people’s lives, so long the precendent is set that it is legitimate for religious authorities to hold legal authority over entire nations, including people who do not believe in their religious doctrines.
[Wasabisoft] Focus On Your Own Damn Family: or even “God Bless America” nudging “Save The Whales, Bomb Iraq”. Loads of fun. You normally only get juxtaposition of this level in detective novels and psychopath-style slasher flicks. Or VeggieTales, for that matter”¦ ...
[Dr Nasir Khan] The US war and occupation of Iraq: Part II: It was Charles Fourier, the French utopian socialist, who wrote 155 years ago, in a passage cited by Marx and Engels: “Social progress and changes of a period are accompanied by the progress of women towards freedom, while the decay of the social system brings with it a reduction of the freedoms enjoyed by women.” He concluded: “Extension of the rights of women is the basic principle of all social progress.”
[Counterterrorism Blog] Crossroads in History: The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist ...: But in the chorus of denial on the challenge of Islamic supremacism, there are many who (frighteningly) believe that the United Kingdom offers ideas and research that could be valuable in counterterrorism measures in the United States. In fact, if America continues to pursue an approach of denial on Islamic supremacism, comparable to that of the United Kingdom's, it could well go down its same disastrous path.
[The Latest Word] Wayne Laugesen Vs. Richard Baker: The Debate: But majorities can elect religious wingnuts to public office, and those wingnuts can say stupid things like "God made me president." This is freedom of speech and freedom of religion. What's great, however, is that you are free to grab a microphone, go on the radio, or publish a book to say Christians are evil, they need to shut up, and nobody should vote for them.
[Islamoscope] Crossroads in History: The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist ...: But in the chorus of denial on the challenge of Islamic supremacism, there are many who (frighteningly) believe that the United Kingdom offers ideas and research that could be valuable in counterterrorism measures in the United States. In fact, if America continues to pursue an approach of denial on Islamic supremacism, comparable to that of the United Kingdom’s, it could well go down its same disastrous path.
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