Wolf: How many Muslims do you actually know in order to claim that Asmaa is not a "typical" Muslim. Or is your claim based on the sum total of watching news clips, which tend to favor the bomb-throwing fanatic, as opposed to the ordinary lives, hopes and dreams of over a BILLION people? There are certainly religious people (of all faiths) that use religion to justify their actions. When Christians were massacring Muslim civilians in Bosnia, or when the Catholic IRA was bombing Protestant Belfast, most people understood that it was inaccurate and inappropriate to blame Christianity or Christians for such …
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Wolf: Beastiality: The quality or condition of being an animal or like an animal. Conduct or an action marked by depravity or brutality. Looking at the most extreme interpretation of Islam (Saudi Wahhabism, which is universally accepted as a minority view) as somehow representative of all or most of Islam, is either bad logic or an intentional attempt to deceive (your Taliban example being another entity following such minority view). The sum total of all these persons (even assuming every individual in the countries above follows such view) is still a tiny fraction of all Muslims. And while Iran is certainly …
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Anyone who doubts the power of the hard-right Israeli lobby (whose tentacles reach deeply into BOTH parties) should witness what happened in Congress today. "Who Killed the Iran Provision?" "...We worked so hard to get one provision in a bill that says that President Bush must get Congressional approval before he launches an attack against Iran. And they killed it in secret -- within the Democratic caucus! The provision didn't say we could never attack Iran. Or that we would be taking that option off the table in negotiations. It said the president must get congressional approval. You know, like it …
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Whattheheck: Last time I checked, Hezbollah wasn't in anybody's house but their own, in Lebanon, while Israel was conducting the systematic bombing that is the basis of the article. The "academic" got it right. The thing about "academics" is that they conduct these "mental" experiments properly (analogies actually have to be analogous), rather than spout populist cliches. Lay off the Faux News, its bad for you.
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Whattheheck: The problem with your analogy is that the guy threatening imminent harm is in your house, justifying your use of lethal force in self defense (in its actual legal meaning, rather than its Bush inspired Orwellian opposite). You know, as well as I, that the situation in the Middle East is NOT analogous. btw: The Katyushas were fired AFTER the Israelis began their systematic bombing of Lebanon. In fact, since Hezbollah chased Israel out of Lebanon in 2000, it had not fired a single rocket at Israel, much less at Israeli kids.
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