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are you unfamiliar with the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s? the Voting Rights Act of 1963, which Congress and Bush just renewed? the bad days of race relations are behind the U.S. Good for the European countries as well.

apparently you are blind in addition to being mouth-breather. the initial post on this thread states that Islam is a violent religion. I never said that every single person that follows Islam is a violent person. the religion they follow is violent. keep trying though man, you might post something intelligent soon.

assuming reasonable limits, jackass. should I put a disclaimer or legal endnote after every post? ass.

the KKK isn't a worldwide threat to kill people, unlike Islamic extremists. by and large, the KKK has been relegated to an impotent following of racists and rednecks in the U.S. the Vatican does not impose its religious rulings by terrorizing people with death sentences, unlike some Muslim clerics and societies.

until I see a worldwide movement by muslims aimed at stopping their radical factions from killing innocents, I will continue to believe that the Islamic community tolerates the radical's actions, and therefore until then, Islam is not a peaceful religion in my opinion.

your logic from your last post is asinine.

hey moron, did you forget about the civilians in Haifa and everywhere else in Northern Israel that have rockets raining down on them day and night? why should they be punished? and you blame this entire thing on Israel for attacking the Gaza Strip? which country HANDED the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians as a gesture of good will, only to have the Palestinians launch rockets into Israel immediately following the handover. it isn't Israel's fault that Hezbollah hides behind Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah knows that they are putting the Lebanese in danger by doing this. they have no sympathy for the Lebanese and want every Jew dead. another idiot yankee. go bills, douchebag.

thank you for evaluating. i shall consider it for future threads.

I'm creating debate on coldplaying.com - hardly inciting a new generation of Islamic fanatics.

As usual, I disagree with you on all points except the part where the U.N. sucks.

1994 - Rwanda - The U.N. pulls out its small peacekeeping force after ten Belgian soldiers are killed. The pullout and further lack of intervention results in a genocide, killing 800,000 men, women, and children. Think about it: 11 World Cup Stadiums hold 800,000 people. All dead. Present: Darfur, Sudan - The Sudanese Government, using Arab "Janjaweed" militias, its air force, and organized starvation, is systematically killing the black Sudanese of Darfur. Hundreds of Thousands are dead. Hezbollah Attacks on Israel - Hundreds of missiles raining in on Haifa and other cities. Israeli-Lebanese border under siege. WHERE IS THE U.N.? The IMPOTENT, INEFFECTIVE, IRRELEVENT U.N.

get used to the anti-semitism on this board Matan_18 - it is rampant.

i'm really sad that bart doesn't like me. i have tried so hard.

By Dick Morris The Other Russia Congress met here today, with over 3,000 people in attendance, along with hundreds of police to keep tabs on them. They are a hardy bunch, daring to show their faces amid a growing crackdown on democracy in Russia. One knowledgeable leader of the congress told us "there is no difference – none – between the level of repression now and that which prevailed under Brezhnev." While President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice content themselves with lamenting "backsliding" on democracy, the naked truth is that Russia is now as repressive as it was under communism. "Extremist" groups can be barred from participating in elections – and President Vladimir Putin defines who is and is not an extremist. The media, newspapers and television, are firmly under government control. Opposition views are simply not heard, and the news media just parrot government propaganda. Putin has cracked down on Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcasts, threatening stations that air them, effectively reducing their range to only Moscow and St. Petersburg. Members of the Duma are selected from party slates – i.e., handpicked by Putin – and direct-election single-member districts have been abolished. Putin appoints governors, and the last democratically elected governor was arrested last month. The former catalyst for the freedom and democracy movement, Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is in prison, serving an eight-year sentence. The jail is 12 miles from the Chinese border in a uranium-mining area where the radioactivity reduces life expectancy to 42 years. His sentence might as well be death. And, to make his life even worse in this frozen hell, where temperatures drop to 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, his face was recently slashed by a fellow inmate and he was locked in solitary confinement until his hunger strike forced his release back to the normal prison population. This is Putin's Russia. But democracy is stirring. Important national leaders like former Prime Minister (under Putin) Mikhail Kasyanov, the leader of the People's Democratic Union, and former chess champion Gary Kasparov are attacking Putin's autocracy. Kasyanov might run against the dictator's handpicked choice in 2008 unless Putin changes the constitution to allow himself to run for re-election. If he does, Kasyanov will give him a heck of a fight. And the Bush administration? Quiet as a mouse. Bush and Rice have allowed Russia to stay in the G-8 with a democracy record no better than China's, which remains excluded. They are even considering opening Western oil markets to Russian exports. Meanwhile, Putin is using oil diplomacy – or really energy aggression – to try to cow his former satellites into submission. He has tried to quintuple gas prices to Ukraine. He's bribed former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder with a $300,000-a-year-job with Gazprom, the Russian gas company, to OK and help fund a pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic. The pipeline threatens to cut off gas supplies to Poland and Ukraine to punish them for their apostasy. He won't buy Moldovan or Georgian wine to punish their freedom movements. (The United States should immediately lift its trade restrictions on wines from these two freedom-loving nations.) One has to ask whether the neocons of the Bush administration are on the job. No real pressure is coming from Washington, and Bush's approach is pathetically weak. Putin is buying them off with a commitment to take our used nuclear fuel off our hands and by seductive temporizing over the Iranian nuclear issue. If Bush were to stand up to Putin as President Reagan did to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Putin would be unable to get away with the mayhem he is undertaking in Russia and its former empire. Richard Nixon once said of Bush senior that the world would ask, "Who lost Russia?" (an echo of his own 1950s question about China) if he did not increase aid to Moscow. Now the question of who lost Russia comes up again. And the answer, surprisingly, is President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Rice. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/19/135835.shtml

until I see a worldwide movement by muslims aimed at stopping their radical factions from killing innocents, I will continue to believe that the Islamic community tolerates the radical's actions, and therefore until then, Islam is not a peaceful religion in my opinion.

Christian terrorism is not a world problem right now. Islamic terrorism is a huge world problem right now. It is always remarkable how when people run out of counterpoints, the name Hitler is always introduced into the conversation. Didn't expect that one Faust.

Why don't you try to make a thread about Blacks or Jews and see if it gets taken off. I don't know about Colombia, but in the United States, I have the right to say or write anything I want. Like I said earlier, personal freedoms are so wonderful. The rest of the world should try out the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It kicks ass.

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funny, I don't see any Radical Christian group going around raping and enslaving everyone they see in the name of God. I do see Radical Islamists blowing up nightclubs, sky scrapers, weddings, buses, and gunning down children in their backs as they run for their mothers in Beslan, Russia.

nice, censor a thread that contains subject matter which offends you. let me get you a tissue. sew it up faust.

first of all, I am sure every muslim that is on this message board is a fine and moral person. if the Islamic World does not like Islam being perceived in a negative light, why don't muslims band together to abolish groups like Hamas, Hizbollah, and Islamic Jihad. They are behind most Islamic violent acts. The greater good of Islam could shut these groups down and there would be much more peace. I never see any large group of muslims do anything more than publicly denounce attrocities commited in the name of Islam. Do more about it and maybe this Islamic Extremism will cease to exist.

"Bible with big B you should write Quran with "Q" this is a thread on coldplaying.com, not a term paper. "does that make them 'savages or primitive'??" mainly the lack of modern infrastructure and personal freedoms is what makes the Islamic World primitive. the violent acts of muslims around the globe is what makes their religion savage.

"...almost all of your sayings are utterly false.." disprove them then. maybe you should start by disproving that suicide bombers attack israel. then you can disprove that muslims dress their babies as suicide bombers, as the links above show. then, maybe you can disprove the rest, but first thing first. and here's another thought. why does the Islamic world look so primitive next to Western culture. why don't we see New Yorkers firing their AK-47s into the air when they are happy or mad about something. maybe because Western culture is far more advanced than that of the Islamic world. why is Western infrastructure so more advanced? its technology so more advanced. why don't people in the Islamic World have as many personal freedoms as say, U.S. citizens? Maybe it is because Islamic Culture is based on an outdated, primitive religion holding its people back from true prosperity. Western culture is superior.

"do you take everything in the bible literal as well?" no, but the Bible says to love thy enemies. the quran says to kill them if they do not convert.

"how in the world u ever got to vote for the stupidist man in the world, & TWICE . i eamn c'mon, wt;'s with that." how many stupid people do you know that have a degree from Yale? and by the way, stupidist is not a word.