Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith Feral who wrote (191698)	7/14/2006 10:26:24 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We aren't catching flak in Afghanistan because the Sunnis aren't killing the Shiites. No.. just militant muslims killing moderate muslims.. Since the Iranians would have to cross over Iraq to defend Syria, I find the threat of Iran defending Syria to be limited. I concur.. But the Iranians can certainly send troops if they can sneak them past the Turks. But you're right.. it's just bluster and a means for Ahmadinejad to prop up his regime with rhetoric. I don't always agree with you, because I think you're even more hawkish than I am towards Islam. But I certainly understand your perspective on the region and the religion. Islam has never undergone the kind of moderate reformation that Christianity did hundreds of years ago. But there are hundreds of millions of peaceful Muslims who have no desire to wage Jihad or "Talibanize" their lives. Hawk

To: Keith Feral who wrote (191698)	7/15/2006 12:57:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

..the Sunnis aren't killing the Shiites Not since the US overthrow of the Taliban. Prior to that, the Shiite Hazara were being exterminated: On Genocide of Hazaras " The policy of the Taliban is to exterminate the Hazaras" Maulawi Mohammed Hanif, Taliban Commander Announcing their policy to a crowd of 300 people summoned to a mosque [after killing 15,000 Hazaras people in a day] " Hazaras are not Muslim. You can kill them. It is not a sin." Mullah Manon Niazi Governor of Mazar-e Sharif Speaking to a crowd in a mosque after the fall of mazar city hazara.net