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Reply #240 - Jun 30th, 2013 at 10:42pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jun 30th, 2013 at 12:30pm:
Avram Horowitz wrote on Jun 30th, 2013 at 11:55am:
In the Golan when administration of Israeli law passed over to Israel from the army control, the Arabs had offers to be full rights citizens.
They refused and so are not citizens.

The Jews are citizens.

So to answer you Karnal, no they do not have same rights but this is their fault.

They have to understand that Golan is staying with Israel.
It is not going to be handed back.

So they make their choice.


It’s not Israeli land. This is the way the UN sees it, the White House sees it, the Council of Arab States sees it, and how a huge cross-section of Israelis see it too.

This land was seized in 1967. Essentially, you’re saying the rest of the world has to acccept theft - and the precedent of theft in international law.

Saddam used it in Kuwait, China mentions it when Tibet is raised, and Muslim states around the world use it as a genuine (or confected) dispute with Israel.

Israeli occupation causes Israel no end of grief. You know this - you’ve been forced to secure these areas.

They make their choice. And Israel makes a choice too.

From an international point of view, this choice should not be granted - to any country. Australia was recently involved in kicking Indonesia out of East Timor. The UN ruled, and justice was done.

Israel is no different, Y’s theories of the apocalypse notwithstanding.

Never ever. Ever. On stilts.

Good argument, PB. If they could just turn off the non-Muselman gene, everything would be ship-shape, eh?

Marvellous stuff.
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Reply #241 - Jun 30th, 2013 at 10:49pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jun 30th, 2013 at 1:42pm:
Israel is an occupying force, and this goes against its entire history, its culture, its reason for being.




Yes, that's the tragedy. Israel would NOT be an occupying force if it had not been attacked the day after it was proclaimed and then repeatedly after that.

Why don't you give us one of your long-winded dissertations on why it was necessary to attack Israel? Go on,  tell us why the Arabs can't abide by its existence. Go on, you can crap on endlessly about everything else, why not talk to the really pertinent point, PB?



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Reply #242 - Jun 30th, 2013 at 11:01pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jun 30th, 2013 at 3:30pm:
Any complexity in Middle Eastern or Central Asian politics comes down to Islam. Geopolitics, peak oil, the Cold War, globalization, capitalism, socialism, feudalism - none of this has mattered since Sept 11, when the Muselman appeared as historical arch-villain and all-time enemy of the West. We woke up one day, and there he was.


Here' complexity:

The ones who commit terrorist acts while shouting Allahu Akhbar - they ARE all the same, from Java to Turkey. Don't tell me you haven't noticed.

They are shouting the same thing when they fly planes into building, when the behead a British soldier in London, murder a Dutch film maker in Amsterdam, attack the Australian embassy in Jakarta, blow up bars in Bali, murder Thai or Burmese school kids and teachers, blow up trains in India, Moscow, Madrid.

Allahu Akhbaring IS the one thing they all do. And blow me down wiv a feavver if it is not the ONE thing you want us to ignore.

Allahu Akhbar - complexity for you, PB. Whassit all abou', pal, whassit all abou'? Islam has nuffin' to do wiv nuffing, shurely.

It's tricky, innit, when postcolonial queer studies is your only intellectual guide.



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Reply #243 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 12:45am
 
I hope that answers your question, Avram. He’s well educated. Apparently we’d be quite surprised.

Sex education, I believe. The Danes are pioneers in it.

If I ever need to learn how to get rid of piles, I know just where to go.

Thanks, old chap. Most educational.
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Reply #244 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 12:58am
 
You have both lost me about 5 posts ago I'm afraid to say.
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Reply #245 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 12:59am
 
But I assumed Soren and Yadda may have served militarily but if this is not the case so I apologise to them for confusion.

They gave strong views for sure.
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Reply #246 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 1:12am
 
Avram Horowitz wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 12:59am:
But I assumed Soren and Yadda may have served militarily but if this is not the case so I apologise to them for confusion.

They gave strong views for sure.


Yes, Yadda once attended a service at the Salvation Army.

Soren tried joining the scouts, but alas. Flat feet.

Still, they’ve read all the war comics. They’re experts on modern warfare. Well, Y’s more up on ancient warfare, but if you have any questions I’m sure they’re happy to answer.
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Reply #247 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:28am
 
Karnal wrote on Jun 30th, 2013 at 1:15pm:

Y, of course you’re mistaken.


All of your points have been calmly rebutted here with references. Surely you’ve read them.

Which is why you seek to up the ante by getting emotional.

What you don’t understand is that you alienate people with this sort of language. It doesn’t make them listen or come around to your point of view, it pushes them away. They listen to you even less, and it only proves their point of view correct.

You see this as a kind of victory, so you go on repeating the same point over and over again - for years. The more you’re ignored, the more self righteous you get. You believe you hold the
absolute truth
and anyone who calls it to question can
go to hell.


This way of thinking will always lead to error, Y. It can’t solve problems or work constructively with others. It can only attest to its own sense of despair, which is reinforced with every interraction.

The problem is not you, Y, it’s what you call the Moslem mindset. You’ve been fully indocrinated by it.

It’s good that you’ve acknowleged the problem. The next step is to fix it - if you chose to do so.

But if you don’t, you’re no different to any of the Islamicist knuckleheads you profess to hate.



Come with us, Y. You’re among friends. We’re all in this world together, regardless of our beliefs.

In the end, these matter squat. We shall be judged by how we treat and respect each other - what we hold in our hearts, not our heads.

You don’t need to worry about the Muslims getting the better of you. The only one we have here is G, and he’s very nice, as I’m sure you’ll agree.

We’re all friends.






K,

You are an appeaser.

You argue that there is no problem that cannot be overcome, if we just seek to to 'accommodate' those who are philosophically in conflict with ourselves.

And you argue that we should not be concerned, because those persons [moslems] are 'clearly' presenting a non-threatening face towards us.

That is true, K.

But how can we have a relationship with persons who are saying soothing and calming things to our face, but are always found [out] to be expressing an opposite view, when they speak huddled together, among themselves ?

How can we have a relationship with persons who [when they [moslems] come here to live among us] say soothing and calming things to our face, but then are engaged in the oppression and murder of people like ourselves [in those places where they [moslems] have political authority] ?

e.g.
K,

In your post, you claim that gandalf is the only moslem that we really know [in this forum], and you make the claim that gandalf is 'clearly' a "very nice" individual.

That is true, K.

gandalf is clearly a "very nice" individual, in this forum....

....in exactly the same way that a 'body' like the Muslim Council of Britain are being "very nice" to the people of the UK.


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The Muslim Council of Britain [which presents itself as the umbrella organisation representing all British 'mainstream' muslims] has declared that the moslem community of the UK, condemns extremism and violence....

Quote:

Rejecting Terror
Thursday, 11 April 2013

Muslims everywhere consider all acts of terrorism that aims to murder and maim innocent human beings utterly reprehensible and abhorrent. There is no theological basis whatsoever for such acts in our faith. The very meaning of the word 'Islam' is peace. It rejects terror and promotes peace and harmony.




http://www.mcb.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2307:mcbnewst...
http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-656


But i want to ask a question....

Q.
Who, are those "innocent human beings", which the Muslim Council of Britain are refering to ?

For a deeper understanding of that 'form of words' [which is often used by the moslem community] we need to look further than just the assurances being proffered to us by moslems [AND, BY THEIR ADVOCATES/APOLOGISTS!]

So let us ask the question...

Q.
WHAT CONSTITUTES 'INNOCENCE' WITHIN ISLAM?


Violence and Context in Islamic Texts
http://www.meforum.org/3537/violence-islamic-texts
Quote:

Mark Durie -
.......Abdalla is quite correct when he says that Islam forbids killing "innocent" people. But then the question is: Who, according to Islamic scholars, is "innocent"? Ibn Kathir, a highly respected commentator in the orthodox mainstream of Muslim scholarship, teaches that non-Muslims are guilty by virtue of their disbelief in Islam,....










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Reply #248 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:32am
 
Karnal wrote on Jun 30th, 2013 at 1:15pm:

Y, of course you’re mistaken.


All of your points have been calmly rebutted here with references. Surely you’ve read them.

Which is why you seek to up the ante by getting emotional.

What you don’t understand is that you alienate people with this sort of language. It doesn’t make them listen or come around to your point of view, it pushes them away. They listen to you even less, and it only proves their point of view correct.

You see this as a kind of victory, so you go on repeating the same point over and over again - for years. The more you’re ignored, the more self righteous you get. You believe you hold the
absolute truth
and anyone who calls it to question can
go to hell.


This way of thinking will always lead to error, Y. It can’t solve problems or work constructively with others. It can only attest to its own sense of despair, which is reinforced with every interraction.

The problem is not you, Y, it’s what you call the Moslem mindset. You’ve been fully indocrinated by it.

It’s good that you’ve acknowleged the problem. The next step is to fix it - if you chose to do so.

But if you don’t, you’re no different to any of the Islamicist knuckleheads you profess to hate.



Come with us, Y. You’re among friends. We’re all in this world together, regardless of our beliefs.

In the end, these matter squat. We shall be judged by how we treat and respect each other - what we hold in our hearts, not our heads.

You don’t need to worry about the Muslims getting the better of you. The only one we have here is G, and he’s very nice, as I’m sure you’ll agree.

We’re all friends.






K,

I do not know who you are, nor do i know what your true motives are.

And i would not trust you, nor people like you, as far as i could throw you.

You 'present' in this forum as a naive, and amiable, conciliatory advocate, between moslems and non-moslems.








What troubles me, is that people like yourself absolutely refuse to acknowledge the deeper [and obvious] concerns about ISLAM, which we [members of the non-ISLAMIC host culture] should be exploring/examining.

People like yourself, in forums like this one, continually urge us [non-moslems] to 'connect' and engage with moslems and with the moslem community.

But that urging still continues [from people like yourself] even when we [non-moslems] peek behind the veil that ISLAM uses to hide its true nature, and even when it is undeniable, that ISLAM is a deceitful, oppressive, and vicious philosophy.




My opinion is that, we should be continually confronting those moslems [who live among us] with what we have learnt about ISLAM's nature.

We should be asking moslems to explain and scrutinise themselves, and ISLAM, and explain the apparent motives of a philosophy like ISLAM.

We should not be excusing moslems, and we [non-moslems] should not be [doing what we are doing!] joining with moslems, in helping moslems to build the facade of pretence and lies, which moslems are seeking to build, as the basis of the 'relationship' between moslems and non-moslems.

If we want a healthy relationship with moslems, then we should not be protecting moslems from the need for moslems to examine and to acknowledge truths about the [real and unacceptable] uncompromising nature of ISLAM.

And if that 'confrontation' [examination of truths] is 'offensive' to moslems, then good.








K,

To me, you are of that type of person, who will always make choices, but seek to disavow any responsibility for their choice(s), when any negative consequences of their choices become apparent.
....just like moslems.

As distasteful as the prospect may seem, to people like yourself, we are all going to be 'brought to book' for our poor choices, K.

That is what we must learn.


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Reply #249 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 11:33am
 
Yadda wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:28am:
K,

You are an appeaser.

You argue that there is no problem that cannot be overcome, if we just seek to to 'accommodate' those who are philosophically in conflict with ourselves.

And you argue that we should not be concerned, because those persons [moslems] are 'clearly' presenting a non-threatening face towards us.

That is true, K.

But how can we have a relationship with persons who are saying soothing and calming things to our face, but are always found [out] to be expressing an opposite view, when they speak huddled together, among themselves ?

How can we have a relationship with persons who [when they [moslems] come here to live among us] say soothing and calming things to our face, but then are engaged in the oppression and murder of people like ourselves [in those places where they [moslems] have political authority] ?

e.g.
K,

In your post, you claim that gandalf is the only moslem that we really know [in this forum], and you make the claim that gandalf is 'clearly' a "very nice" individual.

That is true, K.

gandalf is clearly a "very nice" individual, in this forum....

....in exactly the same way that a 'body' like the Muslim Council of Britain are being "very nice" to the people of the UK.



Y, G is not a member of the Muslim Council of Britain.


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Reply #250 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 11:54am
 
Yadda wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:32am:
K,

To me, you are of that type of person, who will always make choices, but seek to disavow any responsibility for their choice(s), when any negative consequences of their choices become apparent.
....just like moslems.

As distasteful as the prospect may seem, to people like yourself, we are all going to be 'brought to book' for our poor choices, K.

That is what we must learn.




What choices, Y? I live among Muslims. I work with them. They serve me in shops, work on my teeth, sit next to me on public transport. What would you have me do? Choose not to deal with them? Convert them? Blow them all up?

The Muslims I know are not an enemy. They've never poured acid in anyone's face, never stoned anyone to death, never flown a plane into a building shouting Allah Uakbar. Most of them think about Islam as much as any church-on-Sunday Catholic or Protestant thinks about Christianity. They wouldn't have a clue about Islamicist ideology, and wouldn't care. Most of them don't even go to the mosque outside the religious festivals, but if they did, they'd hear boring sermons about beng nice to each other, giving to the poor and saying their prayers.

Who exactly am I appeasing?

Here I am engaging in dialogue with a self-professed fanatic, so I guess that's self explanatory. I'm appeasing Y.

There are no enemies, Y. Personally, I take solice in the words of your deity, Jesus the Christ: love your neighbour as you would love yourself. As hard as it is, love your enemy.

I realize that I'm very lucky, Y. I don't live in Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc, etc. I don't have any enemies.

It must be very hard for those who do.
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Reply #251 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 12:17pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 11:54am:
Yadda wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:32am:
K,

To me, you are of that type of person, who will always make choices, but seek to disavow any responsibility for their choice(s), when any negative consequences of their choices become apparent.
....just like moslems.

As distasteful as the prospect may seem, to people like yourself, we are all going to be 'brought to book' for our poor choices, K.

That is what we must learn.




What choices, Y? I live among Muslims. I work with them. They serve me in shops, work on my teeth, sit next to me on public transport. What would you have me do? Choose not to deal with them? Convert them? Blow them all up?

The Muslims I know are not an enemy. They've never poured acid in anyone's face, never stoned anyone to death, never flown a plane into a building shouting Allah Uakbar. Most of them think about Islam as much as any church-on-Sunday Catholic or Protestant thinks about Christianity. They wouldn't have a clue about Islamicist ideology, and wouldn't care. Most of them don't even go to the mosque outside the religious festivals, but if they did, they'd hear boring sermons about beng nice to each other, giving to the poor and saying their prayers.

Who exactly am I appeasing?

Here I am engaging in dialogue with a self-professed fanatic, so I guess that's self explanatory. I'm appeasing Y.

There are no enemies, Y. Personally, I take solice in the words of your deity, Jesus the Christ: love your neighbour as you would love yourself. As hard as it is, love your enemy.

I realize that I'm very lucky, Y. I don't live in Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc, etc. I don't have any enemies.

It must be very hard for those who do.


Karnal, actually my country is a beautiful place.

Until my time in the army, i have rarely seen violence or fanatic acts.

In Haifa, the streets are mostly quiet and we just live our everyday lives.

The scenes you see on your tv are in the disputed territories and Gaza.

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Reply #252 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 4:27pm
 
Avram Horowitz wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 12:17pm:
Karnal wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 11:54am:
Yadda wrote on Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:32am:
K,

To me, you are of that type of person, who will always make choices, but seek to disavow any responsibility for their choice(s), when any negative consequences of their choices become apparent.
....just like moslems.

As distasteful as the prospect may seem, to people like yourself, we are all going to be 'brought to book' for our poor choices, K.

That is what we must learn.




What choices, Y? I live among Muslims. I work with them. They serve me in shops, work on my teeth, sit next to me on public transport. What would you have me do? Choose not to deal with them? Convert them? Blow them all up?

The Muslims I know are not an enemy. They've never poured acid in anyone's face, never stoned anyone to death, never flown a plane into a building shouting Allah Uakbar. Most of them think about Islam as much as any church-on-Sunday Catholic or Protestant thinks about Christianity. They wouldn't have a clue about Islamicist ideology, and wouldn't care. Most of them don't even go to the mosque outside the religious festivals, but if they did, they'd hear boring sermons about beng nice to each other, giving to the poor and saying their prayers.

Who exactly am I appeasing?

Here I am engaging in dialogue with a self-professed fanatic, so I guess that's self explanatory. I'm appeasing Y.

There are no enemies, Y. Personally, I take solice in the words of your deity, Jesus the Christ: love your neighbour as you would love yourself. As hard as it is, love your enemy.

I realize that I'm very lucky, Y. I don't live in Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc, etc. I don't have any enemies.

It must be very hard for those who do.


Karnal, actually my country is a beautiful place.

Until my time in the army, i have rarely seen violence or fanatic acts.

In Haifa, the streets are mostly quiet and we just live our everyday lives.

The scenes you see on your tv are in the disputed territories and Gaza.



Doesn't that tell you something?
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Reply #253 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 4:30pm
 
Yes.

That if the Arabs want war, they can have it.

I am tired of us giving them land and still seeing them attack us. You know i do not enjoy spending years of my life being shot to with AK 47s
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Reply #254 - Jul 1st, 2013 at 5:29pm
 
Soren wrote on Jun 15th, 2013 at 9:39pm:
Islam is like Scientology. A cult.
I can't believe you take it seriously. It has zero depth, it's is entirely performative, caught up in how you wipe your arse and which foot you put first when entering a place of debauchery.  It has no soulful or redemptive quality, it forbids art and culture and music, it is a Mein Kampf by Mohammed. And you could not find anything better to guide your life. Pathetic.




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