JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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likeitis
Yes, it is a stupidity endemic to Islam. Muhammad was a prophet, a special person. Thinking every fool should do exactly what such a special person did it extremely stupid. So is thinking that outlawing something he did as a result of a vision over a thousand years ago is an insult to him. I don't think this guy in the article or any other had a vision of their child bride, did they? Therefore, they are NOT doing what Muhammad did anyhow, just a small mimicking of a small detail of what he did.
Is it? For most here, it seems paramount. I do not think they would care if the marriage was only on paper, it would not be consumated until she was 18, and she was free to divorce at any time without the consumation. Then, suddenly, they would see all the potential benefits of the marriage and regard it as some quaint foreign tradition.
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likeitis
Yes, I know. By that time in the now deleted post, I was simply pointing out that those who bring up Aisha seem to know only one small detail about her; her age when she married Muhammad. As if that just completely defines Aisha. In fact, Aisha just seems to be a stepping stone of whom they take little note in their desperation to attack Muhammad and Islam. She hardly seems to have been a human being to them.
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likeitis
There is whole thread above. Reading it might prove enlightening. It would seem that they had not even met, and definitely had not met as husband and wife.
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likeitis
The situation is actually so bad, that I sort of agree. The Palestinians have been in a situation so bad for so long they seem to have little hope of becoming a modern civilized people anytime soon. The Israelis are there except for their treatment of the Palestinians, who became the way they are primarily thanks to Israeli theivery and oppression.
I believe the Israelis could have a lovely society if the Palistinians just disappeared. But you could say the same thing about Southern whites and ex-slaves in the American South after the American Civil War. Whether a wonderful society could be had is not the question. The question is: Do the Israelis deserve it? And the answer is "NO", not even if the oppressed ones could be moved to a paradise (although I would like to see that happen, impossible as it is). What so many Israelis deserve is to be eye to eye with the oppressed peoples they created. And the Palestinians? I have no hope for them in the near future. Therefore, I would welcome it if they all just wiped eachother out and stopped bothering us all. But certainly a peaceful, and AHEM, fair solution is far more welcome.
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likeitis
Is there some problem with that opinion? I am not saying we reaped and sowed the Taliban. I am saying sowed the ground for the Taliban to flourish. Sort of like pruning the dead branches off a bush.
We might have actually killed the whole bush had we not divided our forces. Maybe. I still would not have supported that attempt.
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likeitis
So would I have, the second I thought the Afghans could come up with something significantly better. That would have been demonstrated by Afghans taking down the Taliban all by themselves, particularly by the method of not joining up.
The way I see it, after 9/11 they got stupid like only a people in a panic can be. They ignored all the lessons of history and thought regime change could be done easily, quickly and was actually worth the price.
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likeitis
The Russians have something against Canadians and fear them so much they see them behind every corner. When telepromter gets here, he will explain.
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likeitis
I hear ya Sushi, and for the overwhelming majority of it, that statement and its sentiments are correct.
However, it is Obama's baby now, and it was him who decided to make Afghanistan the focus, and its him that could put an end to aerial bombardment that amounts to one step forward and two steps backward.
But pointing a finger at Obama while not even one of nine other fingers point at Bush is just stupid in the extreme.
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likeitis
I am just going to reply with my usual complaint that everyone seems to be able to see two possibilies: 1)what they did and 2) do nothing.
I might be bothered to answer with some detail if you bother to rephrase the question into something that makes me think you can actually conceive of more than those 2 possibilities.
Moderator: Stay on topic please. The subject is Pakistan today, not 9/11.
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likeitis
Either you do not know the difference between the oppressor and the oppressed or you do not want to.
I do not exactly condone the violence either. Its more like its a matter of course when people are oppressed like this.
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likeitis
Since the interest of Hamas is NOT the safety of citizens, it is silly to make the comparison.
What Hamas seeks is freedom, not safety.
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likeitis
Support is not the correct word. I simply see no other choice. The Israelis do not respond well enough nor quickly enough to peace. Neither does the world put pressure on Israel when the Palestinians are quietly rotting in their prison.
What I would like to see more than Palestinian violence is for Israel to keep her promises with regards to setting the Palestinians free.
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likeitis
If America is unwilling to fight man to man in order to avoid civilian casualities, then America needs to get the heck of Afghanistan right now.
Dropping bombs on villages accomplishes four things: 1) it kills militants 2) it kills civilians, who are survived by angry people who become militants 3) it makes money for bomb makers 4) it prolongs the war, making money for other war profiteers.
Afghanistan is hopeless, unless you are a war profiteer. But even if Afghanistan were not hopeless, dropping bombs from the air like freaking cowards would not win Afghanistan. It will only turn the people against us. America needs to either grow the balls to do the job properly, and that includes telling bomb makers we don't want to use their product, or America needs to go home.
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likeitis
I wonder about that myself. But then, what if those plates were stolen as well?
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likeitis
MadAdverts, Superlib, Teleprompter, its not like I ever liked the Taliban. I hated them. But when they had majority control of Afghanistan they were not much worse than any other warlord being in control. So the question is, if you don't like the Taliban, and you don't like the warlords, who should control Afghanistan? Who are you going to put in control? Oh yeah, Karzai. Great job he has done is quashing the Taliban!
Look, there are consequences to your actions, no matter how much you may dream of a utopia without the Taliban.
So long as they had Afghanistan we hardly ever heard about them in Pakistan. But since the invasion of Afghanistan, they have been acting like an animal backed into a corner. They have lashed out, and now, they have control of the Swat Valley. Instead of controlling just the no account backwater of Afghanistan, now they are causing serious headaches for an ally and they have a nice emerald mine now. And they still persist in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is and was and always will be hopeless. But trying to make something out of it beyond all possibility has brought us this. Instead of the Taliban making life hard in Afghanistan, they are making death easy in not only Afghanistan, but Pakistan as well.
The ante was upped and the Taliban called your raise. You reap what you sow.
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likeitis
No buddy. Your turn. If you got some brilliant way to protect prepubescent females in Saudi from a fate worse than unconsummated marriage, and the Saudis are going to embrace it with relish, then post it. I have said my bit.
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likeitis
Ah, now I see the source of your ridiculous comments. You have no ability to compare, and you also have no realization of how the past affects the present. Ignorance is bliss they say, similar to Alzheimer's I expect.
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likeitis
It did not always seem to be that way with the Taliban. They were pretty much minding their own business but made the mistake of having bin Laden as a house guest. The U.S. gave them two choices: Hand over bin Laden or die. No negotiation. The Taliban did not jump fast enough and so the U.S. decided to crush them. Sporadic success so far. You reap what you sow.
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likeitis
I can accept that if you accept that Bush not being able to find bin Laden is an executable offense, as he had an 8 year head start on Obama.
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likeitis
They got to come outside sometime. Those who have no experience outside will land in a WHOLE bunch more trouble. I would not be surprised if the parents were indoor types who chose a really bad place for their kids to play and gave them no warnings about the area. And no, playing video games at home will not give you those skills. And they still have to go outside sometime.
Avoidance of the outdoors will result in more accidents that get more and more silly as people get stupid about being outside.
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