michel ?

Submitted by susan (Italy), Jan 31, 2007 at 17:21

"Any effort to point out a double standard will be dismissed as present vs. past."

actually it was not dismissed, we asked plato that while this might be true of USA or australia, it's not true of Europe. Secondly, you michel live in USA, care to put your money where your mouth is and either leave your home to a native american or leave the country you are wrongly squatting?

No reply from the kumbaya duo

"You nailed the causal chain precisely. Now take it a step further and ask yourself, when that very exact dogma was used. Replace the word "Muslim" with Jew, Krim Tatar, Armenian, Indian, Christian, …… shall I go on?"

no, in spite of your deep ignorance you just named many of the victims of the muslim peacefulness

"So the blessing of living in the US, the freedoms and pursuit of happiness is a miracle? Who gave you that? Did not come by itself, right? That fact that you can sit there lazily in your armchair, spill any form of intolerance, is based upon our own migratory attack, our own genocide, small pocks in covers given to peaceful Injuns, millions of buffalo cadavers littering the railway tracks.
But such points are of course irrelevant to the issue at hand...."

and your next one way flight back to switzerland is?

"I commend you for your empathy and can only invite the fanatics to go and have a talk with a Vietnam vet. If you do not know the stench of fresh blood, the sounds and carnage of just one grenade, the butchery of a suicide bombing in the middle of a market, the horror of killing, all these horrible consequences remain abstract notions for our desk jockeys. I have a simple remedy for that: go ahead and turn off the power of your freezers for 3 weeks. Then, take a whiff. If you still stand, multiply that by10000. Then, come back and have the audacity of recommending to nuking just one village."

The fanatics reply: grandiose delusion delusional conviction of one's own importance, power, or knowledge or that one is, or has a special relationship with, a deity or a famous person.

"If you are not willing to "see the truth", then Plato you are hopeless. There we go again. Either you capitulate, or you will be insulted. Nothing in between."

you are both hopeless since you both admitted to be utterly ignorant of the koran (you) or the simple basic newswire telling us how many non-muslims daily die by the hands of muslims.

While you are having a drink at park hyatt in sudan and patting yourself on the head for shaking hands with a local sudanese all bent on destroying western civilization.

Again, when are you leaving the country you despise so much, USA?

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