From: T Wake on 3 Oct 2006 12:56 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:f373i2do0954oud9eabnj30o1jcav9n0iq(a)4ax.com... > 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 >>news:qsh2i2drpinua4j4gbg6utio5ap565jm4q(a)4ax.com... >>> >>> --- >>> 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 3 Oct 2006 12:57 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 3 Oct 2006 12:58 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 3 Oct 2006 13:00 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:grs2i25e29m02qt6takp6sfpoi0snt838s(a)4ax.com... > 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 3 Oct 2006 13:00
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 |