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Old 06-26-2006, 12:17 PM   #1
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Its a bit like a white person driving down to the nearest black ghetto and screaming "Nigger!" out his car window and then wondering why the people on the street who hear him don't seem to like him too much.
All right, fine. And if those black people on the street then go and kill some Mexicans 4.5 years later, will you believe that it was all because of the white person in the car?
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Old 06-26-2006, 12:28 PM   #2
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Well, a better analogy would be if they went and killed some Canadians a few years later.
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Old 06-26-2006, 12:30 PM   #3
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will you believe that it was all because of the white person in the car?
Who said all?

There are a million contributing reasons, and if you look at them one at a time you're not going to see much, like the blind men describing the elephant.
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Old 07-02-2006, 05:29 PM   #4
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This brave lady is trying to reach young muslims who are disgusted with a religion that has no progress, no flexibility of interpretation, and wants to make robots of all followers. Her life is constantly being threatened.

http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/

Our mission in Afghanistan has broadened:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/af...an/canada.html
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