From: Eeyore on 19 Oct 2006 10:32 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> >Religious extremism is always the result of one of the following: > >> >> > > >> >> >A) Insanity > >> >> > > >> >> >B) Desire for power, control, and wealth > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> None of the above. Fear. Pure, simple terror. > >> > > >> >You think religious extremism is the result of fear ? > >> > >> Yes. Fear of losing control. > > > >Whose control ? > > I don't understand your question. In both religions, the > extremist leaders cannot have their followers think for > themselves; Both ? Which both is this ? > all critical thinking skills are dangerous > to their grasp of power. The Muslims who fear this loss > see Western civlization as the culprit (EMF media cannot > be blocked out). LOL. Muslims are quite capable of using electronic media themselves. > Notice what has happened in Somalia > recently. Can you be more specific ? > The residents in that area are now sorting > out which culture will exist. That is indeed for those who live there. > The US' religious right has similar fears. Note their > tactics. They chose a political tactic and targeted > schools. It's blowing up in their faces in most areas > (they're either getting fired or voted out). I don't > know what these types in Europe are doing. I only get > hints from Pope news. Religion doesn't have that much power in most of Europe. There is no parallel. Graham
From: Eeyore on 19 Oct 2006 10:35 JoeBloe wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:22:12 +0100, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us: > > >Britains colonisation of Africa did not "result in slavery." > > That's right. You referred to them as "servants". You haven't a clue what you're talking about. > The US is the most diverse melting pot of race, religion, creed, > and culture in the world. Rubbish. The UK is far more one of those. Graham
From: Eeyore on 19 Oct 2006 10:37 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > > >They gave their 95% confidence interval. > > The news said that the questions that were asked was if > anybody knew anybody who died. Adding these up will not > give a correct count. The 'news' was wrong then. In most cases ( ~90 % ) a death certificate was shown. Graham
From: Eeyore on 19 Oct 2006 10:40 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > People are forgetting that a lot of deaths > were self-inflicted but blamed on the US I'm sure 600,000 odd pl decided to commit suicide just in case someone came along to check the numbers so as to make the USA look bad. Very convincing ! > ; I'm thinking of the > ammo dumps that were stockpiled by foolish people who set them > off by accident. A lot of these were blamed on the US. Are you really this stupid ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 19 Oct 2006 10:43
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Oh, I see. I'm not supposed to be concerned when those Muslims > are a threat to my life and life style. Am I supposed to let > them act out, kill millions, if not billions of people What makes you think this will happen ? In another thread this site was mentioned. You ought to give it a look. Tell me how many calls for murder there are on it. http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage How about a critique of this article ? http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/74E4D099-8A63-4C3E-BF44-F1E13B3B7EBD.htm Graham |