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W Balboos, GHB25-Aug-14 7:45
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You have to consider these hateful fiends in terms of business:

Those at the top, who never risk there own safety or comfort, stand only to keep their position if havoc is in play. Some do it with bloodshed (Yassir Arafat, while he looted US$ 2 Billion from "his people"); Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton: racial strife is their stock-in-trade; The middle east? The the Kings, Emirs, etc., can keep there populace accepting poverty (while they drown in wealth) by pointing to an outside enemy (Israel) as the cause: and in that case, the problem really is that it's the only state in the region with rights for women and minorities, investment in infrastructure, education, etc., and allows for defacto religious freedom. They set a bad example so they must be eliminated. There was, after all, no concept, certainly amongst the arabs states, of a palestinian state until Egypt made peace. Now they needed new cannon fodder. Add unrealistic goals and religious zealotry to the mix, and, ta-dah, you have Gaza under the brutal rule of Hamas.

As another on this thread noted, they real game at the top is always money/power. Invoking deity as the justification is a sure way of doing whatever you want to whomever you want. The poor and the desperate, always the most devout, can now take their frustrations out on "THEM".

In this century, Islam is leading the charge in barbarity. They've a long way to go to catch up to Christendom's history of atrocities, but they're certainly trying hard. Muslim-on-Muslim slaughters between the different sects is simply their tradition (everyone else is a heretic).


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