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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (139633)	7/9/2004 7:03:41 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't claim to be a paragon of anything, but my hat is off to a vaguely amorphous group of people I call "Middle Easterners" when it comes to telling lies. So far, in my personal experience, that includes people from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Not just my experience, it's the same for many lawyers and judges I know in Northern Virginia. We used to sit around and speculate, and the agreed-upon wisdom is that it wasn't a sin for a Muslim to tell a lie to a non-Muslim (us). I've posted before about my worst experiences, but will repeat. The first one was a personal injury involving a taxi cab driver at Dulles Airport. The victim's witness was another taxicab driver, this man was from Iraq. I asked him how such-and-such appeared to him, and his response was "what would be best for the case?" The worst one was a zoning violation case (civil) brought by Fairfax County Board of Zoning. My client was accused of subletting apartments in his large home. I personally inspected his house twice and was satisfied that the allegations were baloney. The County put on their case. I put on the defense. Then the County put on rebuttal. They brought in private detectives with surveillance cameras, and photos of my client's employees moving half a dozen beds, stoves, refrigerators, out of his house before the county inspectors came (and me), then moving everything back after we all left. It was devastating. Humiliating doesn't come close to describing how I felt. But the client justified it because he was Muslim, and Allah will provide for Muslims who go to court against non-Muslims, is the belief. He wound up doing some jail time, later, but that was after I quit representing him. I am sure that umpteen gazillion lawyers and judges could tell similar stories. Muslims just lie. That's the way it is. Sorry if that offends you. It offends me, too, but I don't pretend it's not true. I have no idea why it's true, but it's true. Edit: Sikhs, on the other hand, don't seem to ever lie, at least not in my experience.