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2006-02-05 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-02-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hi Rantbuergers,
The first question, Why the Rantburgers are so quite about this Islamic outrage about the cartoos of Islamic prophet?
I have a few things to say.
Once in India I had to decide, as a group leader of a field trip of about 75 students, whether to stay for a week in the housing unit of a mosque which was reasonably comfortable or to reside in a rundown Hindu temple. Most of us were Hindus. It was a rainy season in north India and the rain water leaked every where in the temple. The conditions to stay in the housing unit of a mosque were two. Not to sleep with feet in the direction of Mecca (i.e. west) and not to cook and eat meat from animals which were beheaded. The only meat we intended to eat was chickens since no pork of beef was available in the open markets in north India at that time which is about 40 years from now. I decided to accept the conditions of staying at the Mosque since, we cared little about the direction we Hindu sleep and there is no guide line for Hindus whether to eat meat from the animals whether beheaded or not. The hospitality of the Muslim community was great for us. Unfortunately, about 10 people of high cast (Brahmins) in our group stayed at the rundown Hindu temple and were miserable since every night it rained and they were wet and sleepless.

The whole reason I mentioned my experience is very simple, If the western civilization need help from the Islamic countries, please respect their faith and culture, otherwise tell hell to them, destroy them to the inhalation if you dare to do so, other wise kiss their ass and be ready to have your daughters raped by these Islamists. It is as simple as I said.

Posted by annon 2006-02-05 00:48|| 2006-02-05 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Hello annon, and thanks for your contribution. Are you aware that the mosque you stayed in could have been built with the stone from Hindu temples and graveyards destroyed by the Muslims?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-02-05 01:08|| 2006-02-05 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I once made the mistake of showing the "Cartoon History of the Universe" to some Hindu's and Pakistanis.
Bad Mistake. Both couldn't deal with the cartoons and the relaxed viewpoint. They asked me why I didn't want to kill the author for what he said about Jews and Christians....
Told them I thought it was funny and they left shaking their heads....

Cartoon History of near everything

Of course I didn't tell them about the Gospel According to Biff

Posted by 3dc 2006-02-05 02:58|| 2006-02-05 02:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course my family underwent a forced conversion from Thor about 800+ years ago...

Posted by 3dc 2006-02-05 03:00|| 2006-02-05 03:00|| Front Page Top

#5
anon1,

40 years ago I had ambivalent feelings about Muslims and Muslim cultures. And it wasn't from lack of exposure, I had traveled or worked all across North Africa. To me their cultures were all similar, very fascinating on the one hand but depressing stuck in the past, with little prospect for change.

The idea of Political conflict between America and any Islamic county was of course possible because of the proxie wars going on between the USA and the Soviet Union.[eg. Algeria sort of]

That said, The alien idea that there could be a war with religious elements involved or a war over religious differences between the USA and another country wasn't even in the basic software of the modern American brain.

That stuff was all ancient history. right?

Suprise Suprise Today it seems possible, maybe even probable.

Another interesting note [maybe], as living is the best teacher, I can clearly see now, how religious wars are tangled up with political ones and visa versa.

Posted by RD 2006-02-05 05:09|| 2006-02-05 05:09|| Front Page Top

#6 And yet another poster comes to tell us our choices are conversion to Islam or to Naziism.

Could anyone check the IP addresses, to see if it lines up with any of the others?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-02-05 10:08|| 2006-02-05 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 it doesn't -- this one comes from Iowa FWIW.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-05 10:45|| 2006-02-05 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Iowa... isn't there a big Chassidic community somewhere out there? And the Amish, too....

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-05 11:22|| 2006-02-05 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Might be from the disturbingly large extremist Lutheran network at the university there.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-05 12:06|| 2006-02-05 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Crazed apple snappers. I've seen 'em. Drink the coffee, eat the cake or die!

Posted by 6 2006-02-05 12:18|| 2006-02-05 12:18|| Front Page Top

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