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To: one_less who wrote (246678)10/25/2007 4:32:44 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 281500
 
So some places, you build fences and start the process of becoming neighbors. In others neighbors might join together and form a common entity. Some states needed to break up like yugoslavia and iraq even if it happened when saddam died rather than thru US intervention. Complex world not made for simple answers. The answer from ed i think that proliferation was somehow benigh and that the US being super nuke power had no moral right to try to stop it was particularly disturbing. I dont think ed said the latter but someone did.



To: one_less who wrote (246678)10/25/2007 8:50:50 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 281500
 
For the guy who apparently does not know the meaning of the word BIGOTRY:

How a British jihadi saw the light [Racism, Fascism in Arabia)
TimesOnlIne ^ | April, 2007

entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

How a British jihadi saw the light

Ed Hussain, once a proponent of radical Islam in London, tells how his time as a teacher in Saudi Arabia led him to turn against extremism

Racism was an integral part of Saudi society. My students often used the word “nigger” to describe black people. Even dark-skinned Arabs were considered inferior to their lighter-skinned cousins. I was living in the world’s most avowedly Muslim country, yet I found it anything but. I was appalled by the imposition of Wahhabism in the public realm, something I had implicitly sought as an Islamist.

(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ....