In the meantime, could he use his privileges to serve mankind by promoting just one single undertaking.

Might I mention the fact that when children have to call religious priests ‘Father’ ,or, in the case of Nuns, ‘Sister’ ,they are automatically cast in a thoroughly dangerous and , sometimes, predatory relationship.

Perhaps he could prevail upon the RC Church, to augment their conviction and their concern to reduce the tide of further clerical pedophelia, to agree to remove this archaic privilege of the Ancien Regime. More unlikely ‘Fathers’ and ‘Sisters’ there could not possibly be!

Surely, the word of God can live on without it!

Seamus Breathnach
Dublin

http://www.irish-criminology.com

http://www.katablog.com/index.cfm

Very conservative. Not much for Katrina victims in some ways. Uses the work “Kat”. Connected to conservative websites, just like you.

Please don’t worry.

First of all, it would help if Kat and Muhammad backed off a bit.

Muhammad, you show your ignorance of the United States when you say that the KKK is very strong here. That’s a boatload of crap. They were once popular in certain areas of the South and smaller areas elsewhere and their last bit of strength was eighty years ago. They’re largely hated by most Americans.

You’re pointing out New Orleans. From what I remember, just over 1000 died. Most from the storm or the immediate aftermath. Most Americans were horrified as to what we saw on TV and had nothing but sympathy for the people who suffered - regardless of their color. Keying solely on racism is like blaming Islam for the earthquake Pakistan recently suffered.

OK, the government may have acted sooner if the victims were all white and rich. But maybe not. All three levels of government failed. Federal. State. Local. Partisans seem to pick a cause for failure and then assign blame to whom they want. The most blameworthy was Mother Nature.

Muhammad, 300,000 to 500,000 have died in the Darfur region. Because of government sponsored genocide. I have a sneaking suspicion that if the US intervened, and saved lives, you’d see that at ‘aggression against Muslims or people who are dark skinned.’

I say let’s not concern ourselves what color the victims are or how they worship their God. Let’s put put a stop to it and put the blame on those that are behind it — the government of Sudan. More dead there than in Iraq and Afghaninstan. Can you handle that fact?

To Kat. It would probably help if you took a step back and stopped attacking Islam as a whole. It is Muhammad’s religion and perhaps he treasures it, just like many Christians find their religion to be central in their lives.

And I don’t believe that New Orleans people are whining. The devastation was widespread and destroyed a tremendous amount of infrastructure of a city of something like 600,000.

And Kat, I think I know who you are. If you are who I think you are, it’s a small world.

Racism.

“The terrorists distort the idea of jihad into a call for violence and murder,” the White House maintains in its recently released “National Strategy for Combating Terrorism” report.

But internal Pentagon briefings show intelligence analysts have reached a wholly different conclusion after studying Islamic scripture and the backgrounds of suicide terrorists. They’ve found that most Muslim suicide bombers are in fact students of the Quran who are motivated by its violent commands – making them, as strange as it sounds to the West, “rational actors” on the Islamic stage.

In Islam, it is not how one lives one’s life that guarantees spiritual salvation, but how one dies, according to the briefings. There are great advantages to becoming a martyr. Dying while fighting the infidels in the cause of Allah reserves a special place and honor in Paradise. And it earns special favor with Allah.

“Suicide in defense of Islam is permitted, and the Islamic suicide bomber is, in the main, a rational actor,” concludes a recent Pentagon briefing paper titled, “Motivations of Muslim Suicide Bombers.”

Suicide for Allah a ‘win-win’

“His actions provide a win-win scenario for himself, his family, his faith and his God,” the document explains. “The bomber secures salvation and the pleasures of Paradise. He earns a degree of financial security and a place for his family in Paradise. He defends his faith and takes his place in a long line of martyrs to be memorialized as a valorous fighter.

“And finally, because of the manner of his death, he is assured that he will find favor with Allah,” the briefing adds. “Against these considerations, the selfless sacrifice by the individual Muslim to destroy Islam’s enemies becomes a suitable, feasible and acceptable course of action.”

The briefing – produced by a little-known Pentagon intelligence unit called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA – cites a number of passages from the Quran dealing with jihad, or “holy” warfare, martyrdom and Paradise, where “beautiful mansions” and “maidens” await martyr heroes. In preparation for attacks, suicide terrorists typically recite passages from six surahs, or chapters, of the Quran: Baqura (Surah 2), Al Imran (3), Anfal (8), Tawba (9), Rahman (55) and Asr (103).

Particularly 9:111, which guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah.
http://archive.nnytech.net/sgroup/osint/4260/1

Muslims are breaking the basic principles of Islam in their daily lives. These people cannot be regarded as Muslims from a theological point of view. But this is not enough to please far-right and far-left lobby.

For example practicing Muslims cannot use contraception. That means the rate of population growth should be extremely high in countries like Pakistan and women should end up having fourteen or more babies, but this not the case.

Muslim cannot involve in usury that is charging or paying interest on financial transactions. Guess! What type of financial system we have in Pakistan? It is similar like any other Western country.

But this is not enough to stop poisonous propaganda. It will continue at any cost. They will keep on propagating stereotypical images of Muslims.

But let’s admit what the worst of it is from, shall we? Because it seems you are very quick to cast blame on the West.

It’s not from Western imperialism. And it’s not from Islam. It is from tribalism. Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zaire, Somalia, Chad, and of course, The Sudan.

But since it seems as if you are incapable to condemn or blame the Islamic led governmnet that supports the genocidal Janjaweed, I will.

They are scum, they aren’t true Muslims, they aren’t one with God, they are a disgrace to humanity, and the moment they die, they’re headed straight to hell for all eternity.

They should stand up for their rights.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/the_statistics_of_war.html

Yes, so is the gang rape of a young Iraqi girl and the murder of her family.

The Western media doesn’t cover issues such as Darfur to dehumanize Muslims. They cover it because it is a) happening RIGHT NOW, b) being sponsored by an established government, c) because it is ongoing…not just one incident (like 9/11 or the gang rape), and d) the scene of so many innocents dying horrible deaths.

It is not the fault of Islam that this is happening. Just as Christianity itself was not behind the Holocaust. But it IShappening.

And for that matter, the Western media should probably cover it more. It’s my guess that the reason they don’t is because the victims are black Africans.

You have mentioned that the Western media doesn’t cover or care about when bad things happen to darker skinned peoples who aren’t Christian or Jewish. Well, here’s your opportunity to blog about it.

Note: I should blog about it too. I’ll hold myself to the same standard.

Why waste time on something already suffering from over-reporting?

To me, you bring up several legitmate pionts. The amount dead in Vietnam (although from what I understand that was from both sides, not just those fighting us). The passages in the Old Testament. To Ravo, I’d say that the Old Testament is still Christian text. It may be pre-Jesus, but it is still Christian.

But Muhammad, what I (and I presume many ‘Westerners’ can’t seem to quite grasp is how so many leaders - political and relgious - get so upset at the Pope’s comments (calling for his assassination), or cartoons, or Dutch films, etc., but they aren’t in full force condeming the Islamic government in Sudan that supports the Janjaweed that kill fellow Muslims by the hundreds of thousands - because they are black. Why wasn’t there an outcry against the forced famine of Muslim on Muslim, claiming 300,000+ in Somalia in the early 1990’s? What about the 200,000 killed in Algeria in the 1990’s as well with the battles between religious fanatics and the government?

For that matter, why aren’t you blogging about that?

You see, you think that the Western media didn’t report about that gang rape of that poor Iraqi girl and the murder of her family. But the media did report on it. And the alleged purportators were arrested and some could get the death penalty.

Regarding the Catholic Church and pedophelia, that whole thing has tremendously damaged the institution, both its reputation and its financial condition.

Yes, each religion has its bad parts. Yes, each religion has had its history of violence, political abuses, horrible leaders. True.

So, how do you feel about the Sudanese government? The fact that the Iraqi blames the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia on Jews? The killing of the nun? The assassination of Hariri - most likely done by Syria? What do you think of Saddam Hussein’s long bloody legacy and his slaughtering of the Shiites in the south or the gassing of the Kurds in the north?

Why not blog about that?

“[...]
It is not difficult to find examples of religious violence in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. When Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, he was instructed by God to destroy all who dwelled within its walls.

The New Testament takes a completely different approach.

Throughout the New Testament there is a systematic rejection of religious violence. The key to this is Jesus’ message that his kingdom was spiritual and not political. Jesus explicitly and repeatedly condemns the use of force to achieve his goals: “Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.” (Matthew 26:52)…”

[.. for the moral-equivalencers:]

“The New Testament’s teachings on the state continue to sustain the more than 300 million believers who live in more than 60 countries where Christians are persecuted. In none of these countries has persecution resulted in Christian terrorism or violent Christian insurgencies aimed at overthrowing civil authorities. ”

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Jesus lived His life as an example of how the Scriptures of the New Testament are to be interpreted.

Would not how Mohammed lived life also be considered the example of the correct interpretation of Islamic Scriptures.