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@zurc, realist is sounding like Mayor Hashimoto with the WW2 references. The best point of reference…
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Something is worth whatever someone is willing to... someone finish this for me, lol.
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He said he planned to apologize to the U.S. military and Americans for “making them feel…
Posted in: Hashimoto regrets meeting cancelation; wants to apologize to U.S.
What I wanted to say above is that the article is coming up with the conclusion…
Posted in: Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
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WilliB
I don´t get it. From the article it seems that first he apologized, and then he repeated his stupid and offensive claim again? How does that work?
Posted in: Hashimoto regrets meeting cancelation; wants to apologize to U.S.
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WilliB
What is this, an Asian stupidity contest?
After Hashimoto does his best to make Japanese politicians look bad, here come comes the Jogan Ilbo and tries to make Korea look even worse.
What morons!
Posted in: S Korean paper says A-bombs on Japan were 'divine punishment'
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WilliB
isoducky
There have been plenty of precedents of this "precedent". Remember Theo Van Gogh? Remember the Danish cartoonists? (OK, they are still alive, but not for the lack of trying.) Even here in japan, remember Professor Igarashi, whose "crime" was to translated the Satanic verses? Speaking of Salman Rushdie, surely you remember him, and Cat Stevens aka Yussuf Islam openly declaring he hoped that someone would do him in.
I though a "precedent" is something, well, unprecedented...
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
I am not surprised. In fact. I mentioned Anjem Choudary before; he is one of the most blatant examples of the insanity of UK policy. The guy lives on generous UK welfare and spends his time demanding Shariah for the UK, the end of democracy, and the death for critics of islam.
By the way, your information that his organization is banned is misleading at best. The name "Al Muhajiron" might be banned, but his group keeps re-inventing itself under new names every time one is banned. Last time I looked they were called "islam4UK", but they might have moved on already.
Google him, he is quite outspoken.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
The Japanese government did not convict him. The bone-headed prosecutors who ignored and bent evidence to fit reality to their stereotype owe him one, and then some.
Posted in: Wrongfully convicted Nepali man asks for apology from the Japanese government
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WilliB
frostthenoob:
They are using exactly the same as you. Obviously, you are able to ignore the many suras which call for hatred of and attacks on the unbelievers, and that is to your credit.
Alas, there are plenty of fundamentalist preachers who read the Koran literally, among them the leading scholars of both Sunni and Shiite sects.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
WilliB:
Yes, what you believe does matters. Because beliefs leads to actions. And I am simply taking the killers at their words. They stated their motivation clearly. Why is it that you and zichi want to double-guess them?
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
Maybe, but it is a hotbed of islamization, complete with islamist firebrands like Arnin Choudry preaching jihad, Sharia courts, special privileges for muslim patients in NH hospitals, prison toilets re-modelled islamically correct across the nation.... shall I go on?
And yes, about 50% of the young UK muslims want Sharia to be the law of the land.
If all that is A OK for you, you have a surprise coming.
Murder attacks like this are only the icing on the cake.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
kurisupisu:
Well, according to he islamist narrative, yes. That is if you believe that the West is engaged in Crusade against islam and selectively killing muslims in Afghanistan (although what the UK and US are doing in Afghanistan is defending one Shariah regime against another, more radical, Sharia movement.).
So, yes, if you buy into the islamist narrative, you argue exactly that. Which is in fact, what all the jihadist terrorists are doing.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
They are ON CAMERA for crying out loud. Are you still not aware of that?
No. Islamic terrorist attacks have involved speed boats, airplanes, guns, SUVs, caterpillars, and yes, knifes.
I don´t know how you come up with all these new definitions.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
falsflagsteve:
Firstly, no there won´t be be attacks on muslims. (Other than those carried out by fellow muslims.) Secondly, where do you get off to label muslims as "dark people"??? Islam has nothing to do with skin colour. In fact, the majority of muslims world-white is lily-white.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
They assumed he was. Do you expect jihadis to make painstakingly sure who they kill? The 7/7 subway bombers certainly did not do that, and neither did the Glasgow airport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, the pilots of 9/11, the sunnis who go and blow up Shiite mosques in Iraq (and vice versa).... shall I go on?
It is really quite stunning that you want to double-guess the motivations of people who were ON CAMERA proudly explaining what they had done. How in the world can you claim to know them better they they know themselves??
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
So how did Hashimoto do at the Foreign Correspondents Club? No report yet?
Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation
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WilliB
zichi:
How do you define the difference between the "fringe of the muslim story" and "full blown ones". Your terminology is a bit confusing.
It would seem to me that by definition, religious fundamentalists who go so far as to commit murder are more than "full blown" believers.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
It absolutely does. Attacking soldiers to shouts of Allah Akbar and declaring that this is revenge for the supposed attacks on muslims in muslim lands is almost a textbook definition of jihadist terrorism.
How is this different from e.g. the Fort Hood shooting by Col. Hassan? (Unless you buy into the administration line that that was a "workplace incident".)
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
So you are the arbiter now of who is a "true muslim" and an "untrue muslims"? I would like to see you convince these two that they are actually not muslims because, well, because you say so.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
I know you are desperate to find a politically correct explanation, but "race, depraved areas, long term unemployment, drugs, alcohol, gangs, lack of equal opportunities" do not explain a terrorist murder, and certainly not one where the killers are actually on tape stating that they were committing it for Allah.
Also, why is it that you pretend this is happening out of context? Islamist terrorism is hardly new to the UK. Do you also try to explain the 7/7 subway bombings or the Glasgow airport bombings by "race" or "poverty"?
What about the home-grown islamist preachers like Omar Bakri and Arnim Choudary who are constantly calling for Jihad against the British infidels (on UK welfare money, to boot?)
You really need to suspend rational thinking to find a convenient explanation for this.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
zichi:
Oh really?? Who else shouts "Allahu Akbar"?
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
Yubaru
Not true. If a religion wants to replace secular law with religious law and re-create the society that its founder created, it is absolutely political.
You really should make broad generalizations like that.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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WilliB
Yubaru:
When religions are political, they are the problem. What is the difference between a radical ideology and a radical religion anyway? Both are belief systems. And people act on their beliefs.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks