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| | | (...) I'll make my point below. (...) I don't watch CNN-- heck, I don't watch network news either because as you correctly point out, they are agenda-driven. (...) I agree, and here is my point. *Sensible*, rational Arabs need to SPEAK OUT against (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: What about the first? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: Why bring Islam? (...) Problem is, you're not going to. Not saying there aren't lots of repressive regimes in the non Muslim world, mind you, but there sure aren't very many NON repressive ones in the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: What about the first? —Pedro Silva
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| | | | | | | (...) Hard to argue with that. Yet I call you attention to the fact that the Algerian dicatorship is on the anti-islamist side, making it a whole more complicated matter. (...) If you were getting paid, wouldn't it be "tribute" to the ruling empire? (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: What about the first? —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) Buying allegiance is not restricted to the "Muslim world". Right now I expect Bush is horse-trading all over. His case is that strong. (...) Part of the problem is that the USA did not pay what it said it would last time around. Bush should (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: What about the first? —Pedro Silva
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| | | | (...) Worse: even when the agenda is not there visibly, all we get is a snapshot of a detail and not the panoramic view. (...) And again I pick my comparison: what happened to dissidents in the 1500's? they went to the stake. The modern day (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: What about the first? —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Agreed. <snip> (...) Okay, but what about the vast Muslim population in free societies such as the US, or even, say, France? (...) Okay, I see your point. But realize that even within Christianity itself there are *vast* differences, to the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: What about the first? —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | (...) Have you even looked? From Aug '98 [ie before the USA woke up to terrorism]: Fight terrorism, but not through Draconian laws (URL) Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said the British Muslim community has no sympathy whatsoever for any act of (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: What about the first? —Pedro Silva
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| | | | (...) Regarding the US, I have no insight. Regarding France, two things take place: a) the vast majority of the muslim citizens has a feeling of distance towards politics (to which a number of explanations concurr); b) the extremists who do exist (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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