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To: bruwin who wrote (1125871)	3/22/2019 6:56:34 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574615

Stone invoking the 5th amendment equals to RUSSIAN COLLUSION you dumb phak trumptard...

To: bruwin who wrote (1125871)	3/22/2019 4:22:29 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574615

Islam is part of Western civilisation MARCH 22, 2019 JOHN QUIGGIN As the arguments about Western civilisation roll on, I’m struck by the assumption, seemingly shared by both sides of this debate, that the Islam and the Islamic world aren’t part of “Western civilization”. Islam is an Abrahamic religion, standing in essentially the same relationship to Christianity as Christianity does to Judaism. That is, Islam claims to be the completion of the prophetic mission of Christianity, just as Christianity claims to represent the fulfilment of the promise of the Messiah to the Jews. In each case, the older religion rejects this claim [1]. These disputes have occasioned persecution and bloodshed right down to the present day, between and within the religions. On the other hand, all of these religions have promoted learning and encouraged acts of charity. However you weigh up the achievements, follies and crimes of Western civilisation, it is absurd to deny that all three of its major religions have shared in these things. Ever since Muhammad claimed power as an armed prophet in the 8th century, Islamic states and rulers have been part of the European struggle for control of the Mediterranean and the countries around it. In this context, Muslims appear sometimes as the targets of crusades or the instigators of jihad (the two words have essentially the same meaning), and sometimes in alliance with (further distant) Protestants, such as Elizabeth I, against Catholics. A striking effect of the exclusion of Islam is that courses on “Western Civilisation” reproduce the discredited notion of a “Dark Age” between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. This period coincides almost exactly with the Islamic Golden Age, which carried the torch of Western civilisation for hundreds of years, giving us algebra, universities and much more. fn1. In fact, Islam was long regarded by Christians as a new form of the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ, rather than as a separate religion johnquiggin.com

To: bruwin who wrote (1125871)	3/23/2019 12:39:23 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574615

South Africa's Eskom Implements Rolling Power Cuts for 10th Day By Amogelang Mbatha March 23, 2019, 12:13 AM PDT Slow-moving vehicles line the streets as traffic lights stand without power during a load-shedding power outage period in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 13, 2019. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the state-owned company that supplies about 95 percent of South Africa’s electricity, said it will cut 2,000 megawatts from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday as the country enters the 10th consecutive day of scheduled blackouts. “This is due to a shortage of capacity,” Eskom said in an emailed statement late Friday. The power cuts are “implemented to protect the system and to prevent a total collapse of the system or a national blackout,” it said. The power outages are hampering business and harming productivity. Loss-making and mired in debt, Eskom has been been describedby Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as the biggest single threat to South Africa’s economy. bloomberg.com