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To: kumar who wrote (3872)	2/14/2008 12:02:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

It's politics Kumar. In Islamic circles, they don't have separation of church and state. I'm surprised you didn't know that. The BIG political issue of the day is Islamic Jihad and its relationship with the Free World of Individual Self-Determination and Free Will, which are anathema to theocracy in general and Islam in particular. Seriously, what's a bigger geopolitical issue? China is big, but a stable situation other than some disputing how Taiwan's independence should be handled and some argument over whether China's currency should be up a bit or down a bit. Mqurice

To: kumar who wrote (3872)	2/14/2008 12:07:39 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

Monkeys... India takes steps to combat tourist rape By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi Last Updated: 2:28am GMT 29/01/2008 India's federal government is to deploy thousands of retired defence personnel to provide security to overseas tourists following at least seven cases of alleged rape and molestation of foreigners, including four Britons, this month. Pakistani militants start to release 250 child hostages The decision came within hours of police confirming that medical tests had established that a 32-year-old British woman had been raped in Goa, one of India's most popular tourist destinations on the west coast. She had reportedly been raped after accepting a lift home on her assailant's motorcycle after attending a concert in Mapusa, in north Goa. In a separate incident, Goa police said that two British women claimed to have been sexually assaulted by the owner of a resort in the former Portuguese enclave, but a case had yet to be registered against him. Reports of a British freelance journalist being raped a fortnight ago in Udaipur, the city of lakes in the western desert state of Rajasthan, which is also popular with foreigners, generated more negative publicity for India. "It has been decided that the large bank of trained, disciplined ex-servicemen in the country can be utilized to provide security to tourists," federal tourism secretary Shilbhadra Banerjee said. The provision to "fast-track" tourist rape cases is also being introduced in a country infamous for its slow justice system. Other deterrent measures being introduced include dedicated phone numbers for security in all major tourist spots. Around four million tourists, many of them Westerners, visit India a year. Tourism officials conceded that these incidents of rape and molestation underlined the pitfalls of Western women in India where they are generally presumed promiscuous. telegraph.co.uk

To: kumar who wrote (3872)	2/14/2008 12:48:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 4152

EDIT... now I see you have banned discussion of anything to do with the Moslem world. Okay. Let's discuss fishing? What did you think of Japan whaling? I'll leave my post there since I'd already written it. I was just trying to cheer up and obviously empty place - no posts to speak of. ------------------------------------------------------------- Kumar, speak of the Devil [which I hasten to add is a figure of speech, not a gratuitous religious comment], good news: reuters.com I don't know whether Hezbollah has any religious ideology attacked to their actions, but I believe they do. Israel was founded on another religious ideology. So it seems that the unmentionable does play a part in the area. Anyway, he won't be conducting any more murderous activities. It seems a much better idea to start at the top than try to stop mentally deficient people who have been pushed into suicide bombing of people going about their business. This guy should probably be on the list too if he thought said martyr was a good bloke: <Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Majeed condemned the attack as a "terrorist act" and said that an investigation was under way. > Rumour has it that Syria has been instrumental in various murders and carnage in Lebanon so him moaning about the attack is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Mqurice