Hey, peeps.
There's this really superawesome guy named Justin who has an equally superawesome blog which linked me, sooooo go there.
Also, I'm finally going to announce the "winners" of the 2008 Douche Bag of the Year Awards, which will also be our 500th post!*
*Barring me not deleting any more past writings.
There's this really superawesome guy named Justin who has an equally superawesome blog which linked me, sooooo go there.
Also, I'm finally going to announce the "winners" of the 2008 Douche Bag of the Year Awards, which will also be our 500th post!*
*Barring me not deleting any more past writings.
3 praise(s):
Last year was Ron Paul supporters?
I gotta say something. Yeah, I'm a Ron Paul supporter. Does that mean I'll get banned or something? Hope not.
Anyway, yeah, we crash polls. Politics is marketing and we're thinking whatever we can do to get the name out will help. Paul's not taking special interest money or lobbyist money, like Clinton, Obama, and McCain, so we're kind of at a disadvantage. What do you expect us to do?
Are some supporters weird people? I suppose. When you champion liberty, then what happens is a lot of people with unpopular or strange views that are marginalized realize that they can have a voice too. So you get people joining with weird views. Like maybe brothel owners and drug users. Yeah, even some 9-11 conspiratorialists. But that's the way it goes. We defend the rights of people to believe or do weird things as long as they aren't hurting anybody else. So weird people love us. This doesn't mean that we all endorse such views. Paul certainly doesn't. But we do want to limit government and say that the government has no authority to regulate such behavior.
Violence in the Middle East is not about Islam. Why weren't Muslims violent towards Jews prior to WWII? You know who was violent towards Jews? Christian Europe. You know who allowed Jews to come to their land in large numbers to escape? Not the U.S. Try Iran. They're violent today and they weren't prior to the end of WWII. What changed? The Qur'an didn't change. What changed is now they have foreign armies in their land that they see as occupiers. They have European Jews that have displaced them in Palestine. I certainly have sympathy for the plight of the Jews after what they went through in WWII, but I likewise recognize why Palestinians would be ticked. Notice that the U.S. wouldn't take anything more than a token number of Jews after WWII. Why? Same reason the Palestinians didn't like it. Nobody wants a huge influx of foreigners. Look at how conservatives react to illegal immigration from Mexico. This is not about Islam.
"I do not mean to disparage the good, patriotic Americans who support Ron Paul out of the true goodness of their hearts - and they do exist.... It's a pity, really. Ron Paul is a good man."
ANYhoo.
Christian violence towards Jews was condemned by Pope Urban II, particularly the excesses of the Crusades, which were a defensive war against encroaching Islam in Europe. Pope Innocent III declared that the Jews be left alone. Popes Gregory I and X also demanded justice for the Jews.
Christian law was fairer to Jews than Islamic law. For example, Christians and Jews could not testify against each other in court, whereas Moslems could testify against Jews, but Jews couldn't testify against Moslems.
And if you want to talk about Islamic tolerance versus Christian intolerance, perhaps you should look up the concept of the dhimmi. Moslems who took over an area gave the inhabitants three options: convert, pay a tax (the jizya) or die. The "golden age" of mutli-faith tolerance under Islamic rule is revisionist rubbish propagated by those who wish to sugarcoat the atrocities of Islam. Look at the Jewish pogroms in Córdoba and Granada, for example.
Zoroastrianism was nearly eradicated in Iran due to Moslem "tolerance". Assyrian Christians have suffered greatly over the centuries as well.
Read the Qur'an: It is full of violent anti-Semitic, anti-Christian rantings from the False Prophet Mohammad. (See Qur'an 5:51 and 9:5.)
No-one was "displaced" by European Jews. Prior to the creation of Israel, there were just a bunch of stateless Arabs living in the area. No one group had a right to that land; there was no such person as a "Palestinian" prior to 1948 any more than there was an Israeli. The Palestinian refugee crisis is the fault of neighbouring Arab States which have closed their borders to the Palestinians, the same Palestinians who enjoy more rights and liberties than they would in any Moslem State.
And also, since Israel did not yet exist, why is it that the Arab world maintained such close ties with Nazi Germany, even going so far as to allow their political parties to become influenced by them - the same parties which largely shaped post-WWII Islamic politics?
And I only ban abusive comments. You were civil. Gold star.
Waiting patiently for the Douche Bag of the Year awards... :)
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