biased opinion vs statistics

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), Mar 21, 2009 at 23:20

Barry Soetoero, ever hopeful of Islam's rise, writes:

"Its the time for you to reconsider your way of life. "

It might be time for you to consider your own rather than judging others.
Have you heard the phrase "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

Last month Secretary of States Hillary Clinton said in Jakarta: " If you want to see Islam and Democracy hand in hand come to Indonesia". It seems that US Government begin to realize that the important thing to consider the Islam way of life."

Barry, Hilary is a consummate politician. Have you noticed how politicians work, the methods they use? , From every country and political flavour, capitalist, socialist, ex-communist etc lick the butts of whichever host country they are in at the time. It's like the Chinese premier praising the West for having developed wonderful systems in all fields of endeavour. He'll say that while visiting the US (and get his country to adopt the same systems) - but at home deride people for following a western lifestyle.

Hilary would have been more truthful if she had stated the fact that last year Indonesia brought itself up to the 126th from 143rd place in the international transparency index ( i.e. now the 126th most corrupt country) out of the 180 countries on the index. But that could just mean that the other countries just became more corrupt couldn't it?

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2008

So what were you saying about Islamic finances again?

By the way, why are there not any Islamic countries coloured yellow on that maps?

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