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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/12/2008 : 17:22:01
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Seems one King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia wants to organize Muslims, Jews and Christians to rally against that prolific threat to the worlds stability, the foul & depraved atheists! Saudi king seeks new crusade against atheists
Posted April 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Guest Post by Morbo
If there's one thing I don't like, it's being lectured on morality by a corpulent autocrat with four wives who heads one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
I speak of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, that bastion of freedom of thought and freedom of religion. The king recently had a bright idea: Bring together representatives of the world's monotheistic religions for a confab.
Many media outlets reported this as a positive thing. After all, Muslims and Jews would sit down together in Riyadh. Wouldn't that dialogue be a good thing? The Washington Post even praised Abdullah's action as a sign of tolerance.
A large chunk of the world's population might have reason to feel differently. Let's look at the details: Abdullah has a plan to unite Islam, Judaism and Christianity against a common foe — non-believers.
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They'd better have a care, we have these fundie oafs seriously outnumbered.
What? We don't? Oh, but I meant intellectually, if Abdullah is any measure of the opposition.
The disgusting part of it is that the Washington Post actually appluaded this idiocy.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/12/2008 : 17:43:49 [Permalink]
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That a mainstream American paper like the Washington Post applauded it is the scariest part.
Edited to add: At least they just said it was a "hint" of tolerance. Maybe it was a little tongue-in-cheek. Or am I being too hopeful? |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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| Edited by - marfknox on 04/12/2008 17:49:07 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/12/2008 : 21:16:48 [Permalink]
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Whether the Washington Post meant to be ironic or not, there's not a hint of tolerance in the Saudi king's proposal. All he wants to do is build a broader coalition (among "people of the book" only) against atheists.
And note that Abdullah's doing it from a position of power -- he'll keep funding the building of mosques in the West, while prohibiting the building of churches or synagogues in Arabia. And his own religious authorities regularly video-conference with Saudi-financed European mosques, advising the believers there on issues of jihad and the place of women.
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Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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Posted - 05/04/2008 : 07:36:47 [Permalink]
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Yeah. I can't believe they're buying it...For God's sake people, we're not the ones who rammed airplanes into skyscrapers!
Though of course the reply would be along the lines of "we're not the ones who killed tens of millions of people in the twentieth century alone!"
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2008 : 09:28:26 [Permalink]
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It's not tolerance, it's misdirection. "Don't worry about how we treat our women or gays, instead help me stop the godless."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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They're ganging up on us, or trying to.
