To Susan: Are you Jane Goody by any chance?

It takes some time for people to pick up a language and you began your imperialistic career a bit late, the others having beaten you to it by a long margin and you also had to leave pretty quick. (Here you, your stands for Italy, just so you don't think I am accusing you personally.)

You have put your own condition of what imperialism is all about. The conquored should speak the language of the conquorer. So if the Brits had conquored all those colonies and worked through interpreters that would make them just the bearers of 'the white man's burden'?

The Chinese have taken over Tibet so by your reckoning the Chinese will be imperialists only when the Tibetans start speaking Mandarin?

Now I write: Let me explain in as much detail (I was trying for brevity). 'Something to be proud of' is referring to your statement 'I am sorry I have no responsibility in such acts..' What is this something to be proud of - it is the fact that you were not imperialists of the British, Dutch... kind. Now for the 'But something you could do well to forget' is referring to my next two sentences 'The inquisition. And as the home of fascism...' That is, it is convenient for you to become amnesic about them. Note: Germany was the home of Nazism, it no more is. The reading comprehension and sentence construction classes I am attending have only recently begun after Noah's advice. And I did not comment about ' So your stupid comments are mere self-loathing of a guilty westerner, that is YOUR problem, not mine.' because as you so often have pointed out I am so stupid that I did not understand it is my problem exclusively.

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The source of your knowledge wikipedia tells me nothing about this imaginary papal empire.

When there was the inquisition there was a certain Ferdinand and queen isabella, was she a papess?"

"So sorry I forgot the Spanish auto da fe"

that happens when you're busy avoiding the subject bringing up side subjects like the native americans, or when you are totally ignorant of hystory and whatever you think you know of the muslim world full of moderates."

I had written: So sorry I forgot the Spanish auto da fa (I was concentrating on your country), it was worse than yours, no question about it. It is nice to have someone else's crime take the heat off one's own somewhat lesser crime. Reminds me of the Muslims coming up with the Crusades, Hitler, the World Wars etc. to hide their own crimes. Well done you are fast learning the Muslim tricks - THAT IS THE FULL QUOTE.

"well unlike the muslims that you admire so much, nobody in the western world is denying the inquisition, unlike the muslims that are still denying the armenian genocide of 50-100 years ago only. Must be that you are mistaking us for somebody else?"

"evidence that somalians speak italian? I have evidence that the whole maghreb speaks french.

"Ask Mo, Sohail, Syed Mohammed Ali, Raqib, Shakeel... how much I admire Muslims. No I am not mistaking you for anybody else but from the attitudes that you display I am beginning to think that you are a Muslims in disguise.

"needle? LOL, I am talking anonymously on the internet with an asian... thinking he knows something and you think you are needling me?

Guess what, tomorrow, I will get back to my everyday life, minding my own business and talking to people about the threat muslims represent. On the same token you will get back to your 3rd world country habits, still NOT finding any moderate muslim you brag about, still having deep problems with the rise up of the muslims, still not having a clue about how to solve the problem

who's the one with needles ?"

"that's not true but... I guess I cannot expect a better analysis.

I have told you we never conquered anything, never colonialized anything, only brought hospitals, streets and structures basically for free to those countries admitting we've been totally unable to have a payback like france and britain did, so I am not a patriot by any standards"

"You have improved my education by showing that Italy was not the home of fascism."

"that's a problem of your lack of english comprehension. If I say that China is the home of concubines it means by merely grammar and syntax standards that concubines are still existing full force in china, which is not true. If I say that Australia is the home of kangaroos it means that there are plenty of cangaroos still there, which is true. If I say that anatolia is the home of armenians it's a lie because they have been all exterminated."

Who asked you for evidence that the Somalis speak Italian. The Goans of India do not speak Portuguese despite a 400-year rule. So the Portuguse were not colonists there? You have a convenient way of defining what is imperialism, conveniently taking Italy out of the picture. Good for the conscience.