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Should the West Ban Islam?
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Should Western Countries Consider Banning Islam?
Yes
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No
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dulouz



Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Banning people to do security concerns is OK.

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News article filed by BNP news team

Once again, British people are being inconvenienced by the activities of home grown Muslim terrorists who, it appears, have conspired to plant bombs on passenger planes leaving the UK.

Mid way through Thursday morning Heathrow Airport remains closed to all incoming flights except those that are currently en route, thousands of passengers are stranded in airports around the UK and all the Department of Transport can do is add to the misery by seriously inconveniencing travellers with babies and young families, the infirm and elderly. New security measures have been put in place prohibiting any hand baggage except certain items which are permitted to be taken aboard in transparent bags.

The British National Party Executive's solution to this problem is to ban immediately, ALL MUSLIMS from flying out of (and in to) Britain until the security situation has been fully resolved.

During recent international football competitions, a similar ban on English football hooligans was carried out, when many football fans had their passports confiscated and travel restricted.

If white working class men can be treated in this fashion it must be possible to apply a similar ban to Muslims. We need firm Government action to resolve this crisis which will thus restore confidence in air travel and remove the serious inconvenience effecting air passengers at the height of the summer school holidays.
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Kuros



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Banning Islam?

Retarded.
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dogbert



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Should the West Ban Islam? Reply with quote

sundubuman wrote:
Cults and even "mainstream" groups such as Scientologists and Seventh-Day Adventists have been banned in several countries.

None of these "cults?" or groups have murdered or planned to murder thousands of their fellow citizens as has Islam.

Islam, solely among the minority religions of the west, is responsible for the viscious deaths of literally thousands of innocent men women and children.

Saudi Arabia, the birthplace and nerve center of global Islam sees fit to ban such harmless groups such as Christianity and Buddhism from its shores.

Why shouldn't the west, after experiencing tragedy after tragedy of Islamic savagery continue to provide such a bloodthirsty cult with a home?


btw, I believe that simply beginning such a debate will save lives. If moderate Muslims think that their homes and businesses will actually be stripped of them as long as they let their sons quietly plan mass murder.....things will get better very quickly.


trust me.


so I say...kick them out.


Funny how Jews make some of the best fascists.
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not Jewish. And I'm hardly a facist. But I do believe that violent movements, such as Islam, pose a threat to our freedoms.
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dogbert



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sundubuman wrote:
I'm not Jewish. And I'm hardly a facist. But I do believe that violent movements, such as Islam, pose a threat to our freedoms.


Sure you're not.

I have not once heard a non-Jewish American refer to "Samaria and Judea" seriously in a non-historical context. Yet you have done that repeatedly.

You also take pro-Israel positions that no WASP would take. The only non-Jews in America who come close to your level of partisanship are bought politicians and the wackiest of the Christian fundamentals.

Your denial is unconvincing.
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

btw,

I'll take the "left" seriously when they protest for the freedom to be Buddhist in Saudi Arabia with even 1% of the energy with which they fulminate against Bush.

I'm pointing out the logical inconsistency of banning perceived dangerous "cults" while inviting tens of millions of Muslims, a religion that advocates the death penalty for apostates to live amongst a society that cherishes freedom.

I'm guessing there are tens of millions of Muslims who would love the opportunity to leave their dark age cult, but are afraid to do so. Maybe banning it would be a gift to those trapped in its clutches.
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igotthisguitar



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polls don't get more simplistic than this do they?

Seems some people are doomed to an eternal black & white world of gross dual discrimination.

"CONSIDER" is the key word.

Cleary ALL THINGS must be considered, even those matters which make us feel uncomfortable, flabergasted, or prickly.

I'm likely not the only one out here who'll vote when there's a new "poll" posted Idea
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huffdaddy



Joined: 25 Nov 2005

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Should the West Ban Islam? Reply with quote

sundubuman wrote:

None of these "cults?" or groups have murdered or planned to murder thousands of their fellow citizens as has Islam.


How many westerners have died from Islamic terrorist attacks in the last 5 years?

How many Americans have died from handguns in the last 5 years?

Which one should be banned? The one that kills more people or the one that gets more press?
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JLarter



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm disgusted at the racist attitudes that started this post.
As close members of my family are muslim, I am personally offended by your ignorance and attitude.
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

since when is Islam a race?????

Muslims are white, black, south Asia, East Asian Arab...

It is my turn to be personally offended BY YOUR IGNORANCE.

And are your relatives free to leave Islam? If they do, they would forever be "technically" under a sharia death warrant.
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For once i agree with Dave's Rub-a-dub Man ...

To simply allege racism is indeed misguided.

Bigotted & chauvanistic is likely a lot more closer to the truth Idea
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

since when is wanting to preserve your own civilization bigoted and chauvanistic.

where would you rather spend the rest of your days igtg, in a country like the Netherlands, Hawaii, or in Saudi Arabia?

Would steering clear of a Islamofacist nation such as Saudi Arabia qualify you as a bigot?

I on no way think those born into Islam are of less worth, are less capable, or have less potential to benefit mankind.....however, they are certainly less free....and I really don't want their religion, which as of late has come totally unhinged, to be a part of my society.
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here's an example of why I'd prefer Islamic people to stay out of the west, and no I'm not referring to just Denver.... Wink


Colorado Couple Gets Charged for Virtual Slavery

Priscilla Rodriguez Reporting
KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO

DENVER, CO (KNX) -- Sarah Khonaizan, a Saudi woman accused with her husband of keeping an Indonesian maid as a virtual slave was sentenced to five years' probation and ordered to confined to her home until she leaves the country.

Khonaizan, 35, pleaded guilty in May to harboring an illegal immigrant.

In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of forced labor and document servitude.

Khonaizan and her husband, Homaidan Al-Turki, hid the 24-year-old woman's passport and forced her to cook, clean and care for their five children in their Denver home, and that Al-Turki repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

The woman slept in the basement on a mattress and was paid less than two dollars a day, said the FBI.

Al-Turki was convicted on charges that included false imprisonment and unlawful sexual contact by use of force or intimidation. He is awaiting sentencing August 31.
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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If anything should be banned it should be this thread and the hate mongers who keep feeding all this.

But personally I am against all BANNING and it is true FREEDOM to let all decide how they want to live.

Good point Huffdaddy about handguns but I would say again, it isn't the handguns that kill but the idiots that want them, keep them, use them, without thought to the consequences.....

I would also caution (why should I even need to?) that Muslim immigrants have valid grievances and they also do a lot of the dirty jobs, just like other immigrants -- the vast majority who do not live off welfare or abuse the system. I would caution that we look at individuals and not "beliefs" which in any case are not universally the same but interpreted by people and enacted in a million different ways.

Further, there has not been any large increase in terrorist activity since 9/11. The world has always had terrorists, those who kill for wish to destabilise, get revenge, create a revolutionary climate or just plain kill. It has only been recently that we've labeled it so primly, all for a political agenda and to control populations, win elections and create economic profit for individuals at the top of the money chain.....We've bought into their game and we should cry out at our politicians to stop! We can still have security and hunt terrorists without all the propaganda, fear, there is a muslim terrorist behind every bush....song...

I would also caution that our own "ideology" though not properly framed as a religion, has its painful costs, its hate and its destruction. Let us first deal with that.

A good read by Cathy Young, an American journalist who consistently seems to ask the right questions about important issues......I will quote her conclusion regarding the present Jihad against Muslims and those who might say we are too soft etc.......exactly what sundubum and dulouz and other bigots are unpolitely saying.......she says,

Quote:
If fear makes us squander our moral progress, it will be a tragic paradox indeed.

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Is the West too civil in war?
Cathy Young The Boston Globe

Published: August 10, 2006


BOSTON As war continues to rage in Iraq and Lebanon, appalling pictures of human suffering and death fill our front pages and television screens.

Some people who have previously supported the Bush administration's foreign policy and who are generally pro-Israel are concluding that the human costs of the war on terror as currently conducted - both in terms of direct casualties and human rights abuses - are unacceptably high. Meanwhile, others are making the startling argument that we Americans may have become too soft for our own good when it comes to the human costs of war.

A recent column by John Podhoretz in the New York Post opens with this inquiry:

"What if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?"

Podhoretz goes on to ask if Britain and the United States could have won World War II if they "did not have it in them to firebomb Dresden and nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki," inflicting massive civilian casualties, and he ends with this reflection: "Can it be that the moral greatness of our civilization - its astonishing focus on the value of the individual above all - is endangering the future of our civilization as well?"

In all honesty, the question has occurred to me, too. What if Americans during World War II had been confronted daily both with reports of American casualties and with images of dead and wounded German civilians, including children and old people? What if public opinion had been as troubled by both American and German casualties as we are by American and Iraqi (or Lebanese) casualties today? Would there still be a free world to speak of?

Yet it is all too easy to move from pondering a tragic paradox to considering acts from which even the most hawkish among us would recoil in horror. Thus, Podhoretz inquires: "What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn't kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them ... ? Wasn't the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence now?"

Of course, the targeted slaughter of a population group - known as genocide - would go far beyond anything done by the Allies in World War II. Indeed, in a blogpost on the Web site of National Review magazine, Podhoretz reaches for comparison to the tactics of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez al-Assad in Syria, who quelled uprisings by wiping out thousands. He also stresses that he is not advocating such measures: "I am not upset - far from it - that they are closed off to us." He simply thinks that we should understand that our "more civilized approach might represent a form of self-shackling" against a ruthless enemy.

But such a discussion is a slippery slope. Where one person sees a need to acknowledge our dilemma, others will argue for cutting the Gordian knot by abandoning some of our scruples. This has already happened, to some extent, in the discussion of torture. And some of Podhoretz's colleagues at National Review have been quite outspoken about thinking the unthinkable. In June, one of the magazine's columnists, John Derbyshire, wrote that he had been wrong to support the war in Iraq because the Bush administration was too wimpy to wage it properly.

"One reason I supported the initial attack, and the destruction of the Saddam regime, was that I hoped it would serve as an example," wrote Derbyshire. "It would have done, if we'd just rubbled the place then left." Then, he noted, "we would have been seen as a nation that knows how to punish our enemies ... a nation to be feared and respected."

Most of us, I hope, wouldn't want to be part of a nation seen as capable of such acts. In fact, it troubles me that we are now part of a nation where such commentary is not beyond the pale of civilized discourse.

In fact, even concerning World War II, there are legitimate questions about whether some Allied actions were truly justified.

Moreover, as the blogger and international affairs specialist Gregory Djerejian notes in a critique of Podhoretz, the danger we face from terrorism today is hardly comparable to being at war with Hitler's empire.

If fear makes us squander our moral progress, it will be a tragic paradox indeed.

(Cathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason magazine. Her column appears regularly in The Boston Globe.)


DD
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sundubuman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

seems as if some Norwegians understand what's at stake, from a few years ago....

KRISTIANSAND, NORWAY:
Right-wing politicians want to ban Islam

Carin Pettersson
19.07.04 12:00

Central members of Kristiansand Progress party claims Hitler�s �Mein Kampf� and the Koran are one of the same, and they want Islam banned in Norway.
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According to the Norwegian paper Dagbladet, central figures in Kristiansand Progress party (Frp) wants to ban Islam in Norway.

�We are not the only ones demanding this ban,� said Halvor Hulaas, chairperson in Krstiansand Frp to the paper. �This is an opinion that is well established in Scandinavian countries. We are now importing people with a religion that is practiced in the same way it was practiced when it was established in year 600. The freedom we have in Norway may be taken away from us if we do not start to have some demands to these immigrants.�

Karina Udn�s, deputy leader of the Progress party�s city council group in Kristiansand is pushing it even further.

�It is about high time Norway and Europe make the ideology Islam and the practice of this, illegal and punishable in the same way as Nazism,� Udn�s said. �The prophet Muhammad urged them to kill everyone infidel.�

�Udn�s� comparison of Nazism and Islam is supported by many in Frp,� Hulaas said. �The religion as it is practiced is a threat against our social system and way of life.�

He said that Kristiansand now lives under the threat of getting a large mosque in town.

�Of course, we are aware of what these mosques are used for,� Hulaas said.
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