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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 5:32:07 AM   
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Wrong again Moonhead. He humiliated Netanyahu on two occasions - such as this event: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7076431.ece - furthermore, the friendly US was or is actually spying on Israel as wikileaks revealed. Barak refused recently to grant senior members of Obama's admin access to Israeli generals who they have been trying to influence for over a year now re. Iran and other issues. You also seem to be suggesting Israel kill Palestinians without regard for their status as civilian or combatant, when in fact they killed less civilians than combatants in quite densely populated areas where conflict was taking place according to Hamas's terms.

Sweetie, if that's a calculated diplomatic insult, then The Soviet Union (that was) would have gone to war with China over most of Gorbachev's itinery getting cancelled when they were having all that fuss over student protests during his state visit around the turn of the '90s.

And of course they're spying on Israel. That's how international diplomacy works, these days: everybody spies on everybody else.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 5:42:53 AM   
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I see the thought police have turned up am just wondering when the dog arrives, probably sniffing shit somewhere else.

I just wonder if this thread is also going to degenerate into another Israeli /Palestine whos'e right and whos'e wrong sitiuation.


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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 5:45:54 AM   
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It's heading that way, isn't it?
(That said, it'll be interesting to see how the changes in Egypt pan out regarding that, given there's no longer a US backed autocrat who's been warned off messing with Israel in charge...)

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 6:18:49 AM   
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Robert Fisk has an interesting piece in the Independent arguing the secular nature of the current upheavals in the Arab/Muslim world.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-these-are-secular-popular-revolts-ndash-yet-everyone-is-blaming-religion-2220134.html

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 6:47:27 AM   
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Robert Fisk has an interesting piece in the Independent arguing the secular nature of the current upheavals in the Arab/Muslim world.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-these-are-secular-popular-revolts-ndash-yet-everyone-is-blaming-religion-2220134.html


Yes, a very interesting perspective.

But on the subject of religion, is it that Islam is the new communist, the new bogeyman under the bed to fear, is that why Islam is to be feared so much ?

Relgiousity tends to fluorish where there is fear, oppression and degradation, with wealth and good living, it dies back until a point is reached where once tired of the trappings of wealth and good living the wealthy seek their religion again.

Islam I believe was first formed as an offshoot of Christianity, which at the time was degenerating into the same old, same old religious club that even Jesus was against, the Christians had defied their son of god and created what he did not want, the priests and pharasees in the temple and all the shit that comes with it. Islam that off shoot demanded a cleaner way, devotion that Christianity had lost. It is interesting that many in Islam still live their way of god, where with Christianity, god only seems to appear when it is politically or comercially expedient. Maybe that is the truth of the battle, true believer against those that only think they believe.


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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 7:15:06 AM   
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The types who flog said underage rape victims to death are the ones who are in power in Iran, were in power in Afghanistan, and are currently seeking power over the entire planet. Highly sexually repressed Muslim teenaged boys are taught that if they die trying to bring about a planet wide caliphate their reward will be mansions filled with sex slaves, which explains how they could so easily blow themselves up along with as many innocent women and children as possible.

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http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/02/07/bangladeshi-rape-victim-flogged-to-death/

Really?

When is the last time the US flogged to death a victim of rape?

I have absolutely no understanding or respect for that kind of crap.

I really have no desire to relive the 12th century. I am of the opinion, "evolve or be irradiated." Nuke these fucking back-assward countries. I have no desire to coddle. Especially if it means that more young girls will be raped.


"Nuke these fucking back-assward countries"  Seems an oxymoron in intself, wouldnt you say.

The point you miss, which was discussed on another thread, is that the flogging wasnt lawful and the perpertrators have been arrested. I cant see nuking the whole nation to be anything but an extremist reaction.


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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 7:30:29 AM   
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Wrong again Moonhead. He humiliated Netanyahu on two occasions - such as this event: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7076431.ece - furthermore, the friendly US was or is actually spying on Israel as wikileaks revealed. Barak refused recently to grant senior members of Obama's admin access to Israeli generals who they have been trying to influence for over a year now re. Iran and other issues. You also seem to be suggesting Israel kill Palestinians without regard for their status as civilian or combatant, when in fact they killed less civilians than combatants in quite densely populated areas where conflict was taking place according to Hamas's terms.

Sweetie, if that's a calculated diplomatic insult, then The Soviet Union (that was) would have gone to war with China over most of Gorbachev's itinery getting cancelled when they were having all that fuss over student protests during his state visit around the turn of the '90s.

Moonhead, you are just throwing examples out there that have no real relevance to the point. We are not talking about war in the slightest. You were saying Obama was being meek with Israel and that when he criticised the State over Gaza it was met with cries of anti-Semitism. That's wrong. His motives re. Israel were questioned before he got elected due to his association with the Rev Wright etc. The article I referenced, and there are numerous others by a variety of sources, say that this was a genuine diplomatic slight and characterised it as a humiliation. Obama did it again when he kept Netanyahu waiting for a meeting for several hours. It is cited as one of the examples of Obama and Israel becoming more distanced.

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And of course they're spying on Israel. That's how international diplomacy works, these days: everybody spies on everybody else.

Wrong again. There may be intel gathering about those a state is dealing with but as wikileaks memos show, a full scale intelligence effort was ordered on Israel in early 2009 for virtually every strata of Israeli civil and military infastructure.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 7:33:58 AM   
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sorry wrong thread

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 7:42:32 AM   
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Yep: Obama is taking the Palestinian side and picking on the poor oppressed Israelis something rotten.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 7:50:36 AM   
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I see the thought police have turned up am just wondering when the dog arrives, probably sniffing shit somewhere else.

How nice Anerin. That is probably a reference to me since you agree with Tweakabelle virtually all the time. The "thought police" is probably a reference to myself reminding him on occasion about how ugly his views regarding Jews are.

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I just wonder if this thread is also going to degenerate into another Israeli /Palestine whos'e right and whos'e wrong sitiuation.

I actually said that this thread was not the right place for such discussion. I then responded to Tweakabelle who wrote a long post with numerous contentions which in turn took me some time to refute.

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But on the subject of religion, is it that Islam is the new communist, the new bogeyman under the bed to fear, is that why Islam is to be feared so much ?

Islam I believe was first formed as an offshoot of Christianity, which at the time was degenerating into the same old, same old religious club that even Jesus was against, the Christians had defied their son of god and created what he did not want, the priests and pharasees in the temple and all the shit that comes with it. Islam that off shoot demanded a cleaner way, devotion that Christianity had lost. It is interesting that many in Islam still live their way of god, where with Christianity, god only seems to appear when it is politically or comercially expedient. Maybe that is the truth of the battle, true believer against those that only think they believe.

This post explains a lot about you. You regard Muslims as "true believers". You are quite clearly an apologist for Islam for we see how much esteem you regard Islam, which you regard as being better than Christianity as a faith in itself.

You accused me of being Islamophobic, whilst blathering on in a mantra about how any accusation of anti-Semitism is illegitimate, and "accusing" Luckydawg of being a Jew. You lambasted Catholicism on the last Israeli thread, attacked Judiasm repeatedly and you said you hated all religion. You stated "I was a Roman Catholic until I parted company with organised religion, as I see it as the root of all evil, but until the organised religions can learn to reign in those that commit physical or verbal violence against others in their name," which is absurd - the only faith engaging in violence throughout the world today is Islam - the major conflict zones in the world today regard Islam interacting with other faiths.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 8:02:01 AM   
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Yep: Obama is taking the Palestinian side and picking on the poor oppressed Israelis something rotten.

Moonhead you are misrepresenting my views yet again. It looks increasingly as if it is impossible to have an honest exchange of views with you. I did not say that Obama had turned on Israel but that "Obama and Israel [were] becoming more distanced" - to quote my last post.

In the article it states "The United States said its veto should not be interpreted as support for Israeli settlement construction, but that it did not believe the United Nations was the best place to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict." - Obama has repeatedly criticised Israel in forceful terms for settlement construction so again this point isn't particularly apt. Rather the veto was used because the UN as I said repeatedly, is an organisation that singles out Israel above all else, even above vastly graver issues like Darfur so the view is that it would aid demonisation rather than peace.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 8:05:48 AM   
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"Nuke these fucking back-assward countries"  Seems an oxymoron in intself, wouldnt you say.

The point you miss, which was discussed on another thread, is that the flogging wasnt lawful and the perpertrators have been arrested. I cant see nuking the whole nation to be anything but an extremist reaction.

You really think that it was an isolated incident? You think that it happened in a vacuum?

"It wasn't lawful." That may be true but it was societally sanctioned.

"Extremist reaction." Really? So what you are saying is that flogging rape victims is sane and an everyday occurrence?

I do not find honor crimes acceptable. I certainly am not going to attempt to justify them.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 8:10:41 AM   
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I think you've missed his point: the flogging wasn't recognised by the local law, and the people responsible are being prosecuted. The fact that they have a lot of honour crimes over there doesn't alter the fact that they're still crimes.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 8:45:14 AM   
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I think you've missed his point: the flogging wasn't recognised by the local law, and the people responsible are being prosecuted. The fact that they have a lot of honour crimes over there doesn't alter the fact that they're still crimes.

It was societally sanctioned. Nobody tried a jail break. Nobody tried to rush the guy with the flogger. Nobody called the police. It was accepted. The only reason that there was any outcry was because she died.

I think someone mentioned that the rapist's first victim had to marry him.

We call these things honor crimes. They call these things a way of life.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 9:10:37 AM   
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I have never defended Hamas military activities - in fact I have condemned them several times. I have no idea where you got this from - sounds to me like you made it up, much like the rest of your post.

Here you are suggesting I am a liar - I would like to ask what else have I made up? I assume nothing you can prove as you would have cynically jumped on it like you commonly do when you see a a weakness in any other argument.


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You were asked to produce evidence to back up your unqualified claim that I "defend Hamas". I am not calling you a liar yet. I note the absence of evidence thus far.

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Tweakabelle, talking to you is like talking to a wall that needs an exercise in sincerity. You said I had made things up. That means I am a liar according to your words.

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Well on this thread you actually represented Hamas in a pretty positive light as being better than Fatah "someone honest".

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It might be a bit more subtle than that. It's not that democracy per se is an issue - it's more that those pesky Ay-rabs have a habit of electing the wrong people. So obviously they aren't ready for democracy yet.

Look at what happened in Gaza. Those damn Palestinians went and elected someone honest (!), someone they thought might actually represent their interests instead of ours. Like, how dare they? As if anyone cared what they think! Look at all the trouble the poor Israelis had to go to just to put that mess right.

This is nothing new. On other thread I also stated that you represented Hamas and Hizbullah as pretty much being resistance fighters rather than terrorists in your early posts on this forum. However, people like Master NJ20 and others criticised that and you moderated your stance by stating you also considered what Hamas etc. do as war crimes. However, even taking that into account, you still make virtually 100% of your attacks against Israel as all the posts on Israel prove.

More dissembling. More fiction. No evidence.

Is this the best 'evidence' that you can find?

There is a world of difference between making an observation that Hamas were seen by the Gaza electorate as more honest than Fatah, (Fatah are generally seen as a by-word for corruption) and defending Hamas' policies or activities. Besides, the sentence is clearly what I suspect the voters of Gaza were thinking - not my personal thoughts.

So still no evidence nor retraction of your false claim. Pathetic.

You are unable to produce any evidence. Not a skerrig, not a whiff, not even a hint of evidence to back up your false claim. Why? Because there is no evidence to suggest I "defend Hamas" - I don't. I have condemned their war crimes, in particular the firing of missiles from Gaza into Israel many times. You know this perfectly well.

I'm afraid it is you that is "pathetic" and just trying to bluster your way out of this one. In the post I quoted, you spoke of Hamas in a positive light just a few posts back and actually brought it into the conversation on this thread. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason you do that other than to make a point that is actually pro-Hamas.

More bluster - "not a whiff" etc. of evidence. You said Hamas were more honest than Fatah, and that the Palestinians were acting in their own interests by electing Hamas. You mentioned honesty - Hamas are indeed more honest. They promised as part of their election mandate to continue conflict with Israel. You only mentioned honesty with regard to money subsequently. You say the Palestinians acted in their own interests so the question is what was more important to the Palestinians? Is it officials skimming off some of the immensely generous aid packages the Palestinians get (way more money than any other people BTW) or electing those that promise to continue conflict with Israel which led to the 2009 Gaza war? The latter is obviously the more significant issue relating to the choice Gazan's made. You endorsing that choice sounds very very much like supporting Hamas.

The contrast I made by making that point initially was how you previously criticised Israeli's for voting for Netanyahu on the other thread - that is more of your double standards.

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Any solution to the problems I have proposed has always included recognition, peace and security for Israel within its 1967 borders. I have made this point to you and others explicitly several times. To claim, as you did, the I defend Hamas or support it's military activities is totally false.

Furthermore as I have previously advised you of my position several times, I can only conclude you are being deliberately misleading. As you and I have previously agreed, that's pretty much the same thing as telling lies.

Then as you falsely demonise me, you have the audacity to call me a "hypocrite" for allegedly "demonising" Israel. Pure naked shameless HYPOCRISY.

Nothing alleged about you demonising Israel: Ms. Tweak "IsraeliWarCrimes" Abelle. The point will be illustrated below.

I also acknowledged on the other posts that you said you supported a two state solution. However, you have repeatedly made out that Israel has no real reasons to be worried and yet you then mentioned the threat from Iran. The point is as also illustrated below, that you chop and change your opinions but the one continual is your attacks on Israel.You can say in one breath that Hamas are also wrong, which I acknowledged repeatedly BTW but it seems reasonable to infer that that is only done to make you appear balanced for the one thing you continually do is demonise demonise demonise Israel, whilst offering some discreat support for Palestinian "resistance" - namely terrorism.
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So, I am now calling you a liar and a hypocrite, not hinting at it, not inferring it - I am stating it baldly: Anaxagoras you are a liar and a hypocrite. If you have any integrity, you will withdraw your baseless charges and apologise.

Didn't take you long to get to calling me a liar lol. I would like to apologise but not to you rather to others for disrupting this thread. I'll try to avoid even mentioning Israel in future.


Tweakabelle please don't expect me to run through all your old posts but I repeatedly made it clear on the previous thread that you in part defended Hamas and other hardline terrorist groups as "resistance fighters". You didn't seem to challenge the point then probably because you must have believed it yourself as you challenged a lot in those posts. Now you expect me to post up proof. Those posts are old and there are many. I'm not going to waste my entire day doing it but here are a few samples from an old thread I saved a link to with regard to another issue. However, t should be enough to prove (1) that you legitimised terrorists as resistance fighters and (2) that you really do demonise Israel.

Here is Post 87 where you go on about "war crimes", whilst saying Jews have no legal right to settle anywhere they want in Palestine. Anything to label Israel an intensely evil state while labelling Palestinian terrorist activity "rsistance". This should be enough but I have included a few extra posts below where you go on and on and on about "war crimes".
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Further, the IDF ruthlessly suppresses any local opposition to this colonisation process. Thousands of Palestinians have been murdered by the IDF since the Occupation began in 1967. As these killings occur in defence of an illegal occupation, they too are arguably war crimes. Resistance by the local indigenous population to the occupation and theft of its land is met with accusations of 'terrorism' and dealt with through almost daily killings of Palestinians by the IDF and collective punishments (yet another war crime) ...Is it any wonder that virtually the entire world (bar the USA Australia and one or two others) regards Israel as a rogue terrorist State?

We were talking primarily about the Gaza war on this thread so the above quote particularly represents a defence of Hamas in this context: http://www.collarchat.com/m_3457940/mpage_5/tm.htm but other terror groups as well.

I said in my response to your post on that very page: "I suppose by what you call “thousands of Palestinians” “resistance" to the “occupation” of land that was previously in a state of “occupation” before would be Hamas, Hizbullah and the PLO." to which you replied with a brief message insulting me and completely ignoring the above point: "Sorry Anaxagoras, your claim that you are a higher authority on Israeli policy than the Israeli Prime Minister is simply too stupid for words. To describe it as infantile would be to over state its intellectual content. I do not propose to waste any more of my time dealing with your gibberish. Enjoy your life." I note this was where your insults started. You also told an untruth about "almost daily killings". There are targetted killings occasionally but they are militants and often in response to attacks from Gaza etc.

Here is a sample of Tweakabelle's behaviour Post 81 http://www.collarchat.com/m_3457940/mpage_5/tm.htm - note repeatedly the use of "terrorists" in inverted commas. Obviously the quotes are used to denote sarcasm, which would be ill-fitting unless a person wanted to cast doubt on Hamas being terrorists:
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Of course, if Israel lets the 'terrorists' determine it's standards of behaviour, Israel is no better than the 'terrorists' it professes to despise. The nicest thing i can say about that is that it is pure undiluted hypocrisy. What a clear indication of the abject moral culpability of Israeli policy when the only thing separating it from war crimes convictions is a dubious legal technicality? Such a shame that a State that embodied such noble ideals upon its foundation has sunk so low.


And yet on the same thread, in response to MasterNJ20 who was critical of Hamas Tweakabelle replied regarding the Stern Gang etc. that helped found the "noble" State:
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Please exercise some caution about calling for the removal of "terrorists" from the scene. After all Israel was founded by terrorists wasn't it? To wit, the Stern Gang, The Hagannah and Irgun. Almost the entire world sees Israel's rhetoric about "terrorism" for precisely what it is - a subterfuge that allows it to delay and avoid a peace settlement while it increases its grip on the West Bank. Almost the entire world understands that the 'terrorism' Israel complains about is a direct result of Israeli dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland and its ongoing murderous Occupation. The few that did still hold some sympathies for Israel changed their minds after the last gruesome onslaught on Gaza. It was as near a re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto as i ever want to see.

Here we see a parallel drawn between the para-military groups that helped form the State of Israel and Hamas. Some of these groups were set up to actually defend Jewish people from repeated sectarian attacks prior to that time because the British were rarely willing to help as they wished to appease the neighbouring Arabs. Then you compare Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto. This is about the ugliest most dishonest pro-Palestinianism one can get. Over 100,000 Jews died in what was pretty much a tiny pen for a huge number of people, and were fed 186 calories a day in an effort to quickly starve them to death. Tweakabelle didn't express any explicit support for Hamas in this one post but she demonises Israel to such an extent that support for Hamas' position can be nothing but that. Virtually every single post is "war crimes", "war crimes", "war crimes" like she is a military expert.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 9:11:29 AM   
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Really? Isn't "honour crimes" is a muslim term, not a western one? Some elements of their society are very embarrassed and ashamed that this goes on, and are trying to do away with it for good.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 9:17:23 AM   
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Yep: Obama is taking the Palestinian side and picking on the poor oppressed Israelis something rotten.

Moonhead you are misrepresenting my views yet again. It looks increasingly as if it is impossible to have an honest exchange of views with you. I did not say that Obama had turned on Israel but that "Obama and Israel [were] becoming more distanced" - to quote my last post.

Obama and Israel are becoming more distanced because the Israelis are convinced that the current leader of the one western nation that always supported them uncritically whatever they did has turned on them.
I just thought I'd remind you that he's hardly taking the Palestinians' side either. Still, if you think it's impossible to have an honest exchange of views, I can only suggest that you stop talking to me.

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 9:43:27 AM   
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Really? Isn't "honour crimes" is a muslim term, not a western one?

The modern term of 'honor killings' came from a Dutch guy studying Turkey in the 70's.

It is not just a Muslim / Middle Eastern thing. It happens in South America as well.

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Some elements of their society are very embarrassed and ashamed that this goes on, and are trying to do away with it for good.


Especially those thousands of females that are killed each year by male family members for bringing "shame" upon their families. I would bet that they would really like to do away with it.

As I said, they don't call them honor crimes because they are not considered crimes. I know that in Jordon specifically it is completely legal. And many other countries have it as legal or at least a reduced sentence or even just overlooked when it happens.



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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 9:48:34 AM   
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Whats the penalty for a woman showing a little too much flesh, or for wearing perfume, or being out without a male relative in public in Iran or any of a dozen other Islamocentric places these days. Prison? Lashings? Stoning? 

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RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood - 2/20/2011 9:54:33 AM   
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The modern term of 'honor killings' came from a Dutch guy studying Turkey in the 70's.

Fine. I wasn't sure whether it was his coinage or one he'd picked up doing his research.

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I like to think he was eaten by rats, in the dark, during a fog. It's what he would have wanted...
(Simon R Green on the late James Herbert)

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