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Arne Langsetmo

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  • Same eedjit still making up sh*te....

    [Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
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    * the recent murder of a San Franscisco reporter doing a story on a muslim criminal enterprise,...

    WTF does this have to do with Muslims? It was a (allegedly) criminal enterprise. Does Sh***er want us to bomb Italy because some mobsters somewhere put out a hit?

    * the suspension of immunity by Congress for people pointing out suspicious behavior like the flying Imams who are now suing their accusers.

    They did no such thing.

    * the use of hate crime legislation to immunize muslims from scrutiny

    More hallucinations.

    * As pointed out by Mona, the truncation of free speech here by Muslim intimidation elsewhere, as evidenced by the fear of publishing the Danish cartoons.

    Sh***er thinks that because he browns his diapers, that we ought to doooooooo something about the boogeymen under his bed.

    * Malmo, Sweden is currently 25% Muslim. Swedish administrators are anticipating what will happen when they reach a majority.

    Ummm, they'll reach a majority?

    * Also in Malmo, as in France, Muslims refuse to assimilate, prefering to live in segregated neighborhoods. Non-muslims are not allowed in, under pain of injury or death.

    Wow. Kind of like some places in the U.S., eh? No, couldn't be. We've never had segregation or gated communities and "driving while black"....

    * an attempt was made in Toronto to segregate muslims into Sharia seperate from Canadian law.

    This is more horsepuckey. IOW, complete bovine scat.

    Cheers,

  • Say, Sh***er:

    [Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
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    Well, the good news is....

    it is the most liberal of states that will suffer first. But just in case, some items for the unbelievers here to consider....

    Why don't you go tell it to someone that will give a damn about your lies and piss their pants too. Or even listen to you. You know, like Freeperville? We don't need you.

    Cheers,

  • @ GoldenToddler

    [Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
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    Why do you confidently post to say that things aren't true, when anyone can look them up and see that they are?

    For example, you posted that it is "horsepucky" that sharia courts were proposed in Ontario.

    Um, wrong: http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1569677,00.html.

    Because it's, at best, a gross mischaracterisation of what was asked for and what actually happened (from the cite above):

    "Rather than allow Muslims to use an officially sanctioned Sharia tribunal to settle civil disputes, the province of Ontario has decided to outlaw all voluntary faith-based arbitrations, including those used by Christians and Jews for more than a decade.

    "Ontario had been considering becoming the first jurisdiction in the western world to allow Sharia tribunals to settle marital and other family disputes according to the tenets of Islamic law."

    Look, if people want to settle their own disputes under their own terms, it's no skin off my back. And Ontario may have had a good idea in allowing such "courts", or maybe it's a bad idea. YMMV. Certainly Ontario was of mixed opinion.

    But to call them "courts" is to dissemble (not to mention even your cited article calls them "tribunal" and not "courts"). To some extent they are more "mediation" (using an agreed-on mediator) than courts. I, if I had lived in Ontario, would not have been beholden to any of them. And Sharia law would have no more legal effect than any contract or court-sanctioned mediation.

    In the United States, churches are allowed their own tribunals, and their own procedures, some of which have some legal implications as well (see, e.g. marriage "annulments").

    OIW, you, as well as Sh**ter, are simply being dishonest again. Please stop.

    Cheers,

  • @ GoldenToddler

    [Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
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    You asked "WTF" does the fact that the owner of Your Black Muslim Bakery apparently murdered an African-American investigative reporter have to do with Islam.

    Because, amongst the other things I pointed out, Your Black Muslim Bakery hasn't been affiliated with the Nation of Islam for quite some time:

    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/14/ED7VRHQDQ.DTL

    And it wasn't the "owner" either.

    Are you just stoopid or intentionally obtuse?

    Cheers,

  • GoldenToddler goes oh-for-three....

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    You state that the infamous flying imams didn't sue their accusers...

    Where did I say that? Oh, yeah, I didn't. Guess we know who has less than a passign acquaintance with facts. Now go bother Freeperville, where they don't care about truth, and appreciate your bigotry far more.

    Cheers,

  • @ Glenn

    [Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
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    [from the post]: This orthodoxy is not merely passively accepted, but actively enforced. The principal goal is to ensure that it remains a bi-partisan view so that, in turn, the question of America's role in the world is never subject to any real debate. The three "crazy, insane, wacko, fringe" presidential candidates are Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, and Dennis Kucinich. Yet the only thing they have in common (other than having been elected multiple times to the U.S. Congress) is a belief that the U.S. has been using its military force illegitimately by using it against other countries that are not attacking us. But that belief, standing alone, is enough to eject one from the mainstream, because it violates the central consensus of the establishment.

    Stephen Kinzer's outstanding book "Overthrow" should be required reading in high school.

    At the very least, Glenn ought to put up a "summer [fall?] reading list" of books that ought to be read, hopefully before engaging in serious discussion here (or in DC).

    I'd also nominate Glenn's books, John Dean's "Conscience of a Conservative", Richard Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and "Dark Sun", anything by Anthony Lewis, Glasser's "Visions of Liberty", Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City, all of James Bamford's works ... off the top of my head; I'm sure there's much else that I've missed, and I welcome other suggestions.

    We need informed and intelligent debate (IOW, ElephantDroppings, GB and Sh**ter, FOAD or just go to Freeperville, thank you....)

    Cheers,

  • @ Tiberius

    [Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
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    We talked softly and got hit with 9/11. So we've had to use the big stick.

    Are you obliquely referring to Dubya sawing brush on his "McRanch" in August of 2001?

    Cheers,