From: T Wake on

"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:56:02 +0100, "T Wake"
> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> ---
>>> Yeah, like: "If we give you this money will you promise to use it to
>>> feed your people and not to make weapons with it?"
>>> ---
>>
>>Or "If we give you this money will you promise to use it to buy weapons
>>and
>>fight [Insert Disliked Government of the Day] and promise never to fight
>>us - unless you really have to?"
>>
>>Can you [or anyone] remind me why the Irish Republican terrorist
>>organisations received so much in the way of donations from concerned,
>>caring, American private citizens? I've never been all that sure myself.
>
> ---
> Catholic VS Protestant?
>
> I don't know either.

The same reason unthinking Muslims support groups considered terrorist by
the west.


From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > T Wake wrote:
> >> "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
> >>
> >> > Good to see you Nederlanders are doing so well ;-)
> >>
> >> I assume I have just missed the joke here. Is this going to be used in
> >> your
> >> act?
> >
> > He has a thing about them. To him it's simply an insult to call someone a
> > Netherlander. He doesn't approve of their 'liberal' thinking.
>
> Oh right. Can I assume he has never been then?

That would seem to be quite probable. Mind you he says he's liked France but
hates the French even more than Netherlanders.

Graham


From: Eeyore on


John Larkin wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:21:16 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
> >John Larkin wrote:
> >> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:12:32 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
>
> >> >" he asks whether Muslims will be the victims of the next pogroms "
> >> >
> >> >See my post on this point.
> >> >
> >> >That's why I laugh when American try lecturing us about being blind to the danger
> >> >from Islam. Do you guys seriously think we'd ever let them get the upper hand ?
> >> >
> >> >Graham
> >>
> >> Upper hand? What does Europe plan to do about the exponents of
> >> population growth, negative for the traditional population and
> >> positive for Islamic immigrants?
> >
> >So, you're worried about a hypothetical something in maybe 1000 yrs ?
> >
> >Has it ever ocurred to you that most European Muslims don't want to live like backward
> >tribesppl ?
> >
> >Graham
>
> Has it occurred to you that there are different perspectives on
> "backward"? No, I guess not.

Has it occurred to you to ask any Muslims ?

Graham

From: T Wake on

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:56:34 +0100, "T Wake"
> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>news:45214B1B.7A9DD9AD(a)earthlink.net...
>>> Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've seen very few French tourists here in AZ... probably because
>>>> they'd be shunned ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> The ones I've met in Florida were quite rude, and about as ignorant
>>> as the donkey. They think we owe them a huge favor because they came
>>> here to harass us. :(
>>
>>All French people are rude. That is why no one likes them. Even the French
>>don't like themselves.
>>
>
> I drove around France for six weeks once. The people in cities were
> often rude, and the people in small towns and in the countryside were
> almost always cheerful and friendly. In the US, I find city and
> country people mostly friendly, without a big difference.

Oddly, I agree. I often visit the US and invariably people are polite and
friendly. I avoid rural France for fear of the Guillotine...

> I think the rudest place I've been was Moscow... glories of Socialism
> and all that.

Not been to Moscow, most Former Soviet countries tend to be quite polite
though. Maybe the Russians took the breakdown worse than the rest...


From: Eeyore on


Gordon wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:30:07 -0500, John Fields wrote:
> >On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:30:55 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
>
> >>The Bible says contradictory things too.
> >
> >What's contradictory about: "If you don't convert we'll cut off your
> >infidel head."?
>
> The really puzzling part of the Muslim religion is that in some
> Koran passages they regard Jesus of Nazareth as an apostle of
> God, but in other Koran passages they regard Jesus as a liar and
> a deceiver.

Reputedy Mohammed went a little ga-ga in his later years. Anyway, show me a religious text that*isn't*
riddled with contradictions.

Graham