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International Burn a Qu'ran Day
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Worm squigglies, what else?
I'd love to see the Koran in Wingdings.
QuagmireMcGuire
Kinder and Gentler
I ain't got shit to add other than while reading through this thread, I got bombarded with ads availing me to suitable, respectful, and single Muslim women that I can make my wife. I wonder if she'd scrub my toilets.
Okay, great, he decided not to do it...so why were there protests and more planned? Two people killed in a protest in Kabul over something that didn't happen.
Those people confuse me.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/a.../index.html?hpt=T2#fbid=BXzugu0NOO4&wom=false
Those people confuse me.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/a.../index.html?hpt=T2#fbid=BXzugu0NOO4&wom=false
"Demonstrations against the plan began in Afghanistan before Jones made his announcement."
Plus, I doubt they were tuned into CNN....
FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
Because, like Uday and Qusay Hussein, even the "thought" of insulting them is cause for lethal retribution. A reporter asked them a question during an interview that offended one them, to which he responded, "I should have you killed right now just for having asked that..." That is all you need to know about those fucks.
Curious article. The idea of religious warfare. Not fighting against Islam with weapons but manufacturing religious incidents to keep the Middle East in a perpetual state of warfare and strife is downright diabolical. I'm curious if the Russians haven't tried it yet. Seems like their cup of tea.
^Guarantee they did their share of inciting the Arabs against Israel during the Cold War, probably assisted the anti-government factions in Iran prior to the Shah getting overthrown, and probably went back and forth in Pakistan vs India.
^Oh I know they did their share of inciting but the Soviets seemed to try to goad governments into action against other states when they tried to do that. It makes sense that the Soviets would try to play on old hatreds to get what they wanted but I don't think they really tried to create a schism within a religion to start a civil war. At least how I read how the Soviets operated they tended to stay with the political revolutionaries and shied away from religion. Castro, Mao, and Ho Chi Minh are all good examples of the Soviets sticking with politically motivated revolutionaries and being successful. They ran into trouble when religion got involved namely Afghanistan and Iran. In Afghanistan they ostensibly invaded to support a communist government there, never mindful that Islam held (holds) much greater sway than any political government there ever will. With respect to Iran, I think the Soviets stayed out of the way and wanted to see where the cards fell. They were involved with communist groups within Iran but pretty well kept to the sidelines.
When the Soviets did use religion to get what they wanted they played one vs. the other through the established governments in power. The Arabs and Israelis are a good example. They went to Sadat and Hafez al-Assad and helped convince them that they could beat the Israelis with their support. They didn't try to beat the Israelis by causing an uprising from within.
When the Soviets did use religion to get what they wanted they played one vs. the other through the established governments in power. The Arabs and Israelis are a good example. They went to Sadat and Hafez al-Assad and helped convince them that they could beat the Israelis with their support. They didn't try to beat the Israelis by causing an uprising from within.
" They ran into trouble when religion got involved namely Afghanistan and Iran."
Which is why I think they have been wary about getting involved in that context lately - and they need to be very cautious, because of their internal Muslim issues and large populations.
As far as the Arabs and Israelis, you can't separate government from religion in that region. Trying to get the Arabs to attack Israel is inciting religious warfare - just a different version than Muslim on Muslim.
"With respect to Iran, I think the Soviets stayed out of the way and wanted to see where the cards fell."
Anything replacing the Shah worked to their benefit. I would be very surprised if they weren't involved at all.
Which is why I think they have been wary about getting involved in that context lately - and they need to be very cautious, because of their internal Muslim issues and large populations.
As far as the Arabs and Israelis, you can't separate government from religion in that region. Trying to get the Arabs to attack Israel is inciting religious warfare - just a different version than Muslim on Muslim.
"With respect to Iran, I think the Soviets stayed out of the way and wanted to see where the cards fell."
Anything replacing the Shah worked to their benefit. I would be very surprised if they weren't involved at all.
Oh, I don't think they were hands off but I think they realized it wasn't particularly necessary to do anything and doing so may have been counterproductive. The Iranians, during and after the revolution, were so busy running around trying to find American and British conspiracies that the Soviets didn't need to do anything. Iran became such a big thorn in the side of the United States with the hostage crisis that the Soviets got way more bang for their buck by doing nothing.
As to the Arabs and Israelis, I agree that convincing the Arabs states to attack Israel was another form of religious warfare but I disagree that it's the same kind the author in the article is talking about. I think the author is talking about fomenting dissent among civil populations by manufacturing a religious crisis not convincing a government in power to go after another.
Here's a random thought...
Lets say some Hindu Indian dude gets reincarnated as a pig and then reincarnated as a tree, and that tree is cut down and turned into paper onto which the Quran is printed. Is the tree considered unclean, and if so, the paper? If so, is it then ok to burn that Quran since it is unclean and must be destroyed?
Lets say some Hindu Indian dude gets reincarnated as a pig and then reincarnated as a tree, and that tree is cut down and turned into paper onto which the Quran is printed. Is the tree considered unclean, and if so, the paper? If so, is it then ok to burn that Quran since it is unclean and must be destroyed?
#ref!
Annnnnnd my brain hurts. But my guess is that the printed Koran would be kosher. Or....halal.....whatever. It's good to go.