[Rhodes22-list] Political - Cleaning up your own back yard.

[Brad Haslett]

Bill,

Just to clarify things, this is not about Christian v Muslim.  Indonesia is
a perfect example.  They persecute ethnic Chinese there, a popular sport
outside of (insert favorite Asian group here ______________ Korean,
Vietnamese, Chinese, etc), the "new Jew merchants" of the modern
world. Everybody despises the ambitious who get ahead. The real issue is
economic performance.  The Middle East has oil.  That's it!  They can't
build an airplane but they can use them to destroy our buildings.  They
can't even build the buildings they destroyed.  They can use the Internet to
rally their troops but can't write the software that powers the Internet.
India can, Indonesia can, but the Middle East can't.  This is a global
inferiority complex.  When we get to the point that we call Dell customer
service and 'Mo' from Lebanon fixes our computer, we've won. This is not
about religion, it is about 7th century v 21st century.  Prehistoric
termites eat at my house every year and I think I'm winning the battle.
I've nothing against termites, per se, I just nuke them when they get near
my family's well being.

Crude analogy?  Yes!

And again I ask the question:  Who among you have the answer?

Brad


On 10/26/06, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>
> Hank,
>
> The worldwide Muslim community has been doing more to control its
> extremists than the worldwide Christian community ever did to control
> its own extremists.
>
> There are nutbars in every community.
>
> You can't blame the community for the acts of the nutbars.
>
> The largest Muslim nation in the world is Indonesia.  There are more
> Muslims in Indonesia than in the entire Middle East.
>
> India is the second largest.  They have been with us in fighting Muslim
> extremists.
>
> The third largest Muslim nation is Pakistan.  They have captured a large
> number of Muslim extremists and done with them whatever we asked.
>
> Taken together, there are more Muslims in Indonesia, India and Pakistan
> than there are Christians in the United States and Western Europe.
>
> They don't want us to support them. They just don't want us to attack
> them.
>
> 19 guys attacked us, and those 19 guys won't be able to do it again any
> time soon.
>
> The mess we have created in Iraq has nothing to do with Muslim
> extremists attacking us.
>
> We can't even control a country with 25 million Muslims.  Let's not
> start thinking about taking on the other billion and a half.
>
> Bill Effros
>
> Hank wrote:
> > I am curious about something and maybe some of you have an opinion or
> > know
> > the answer.
> >
> > I believe I have read in various news reports that the majority of the
> > Muslim community does not support or condone the terrorist actions of
> the
> > Islamic extremists and feel they are being persecuted by the west over
> > this
> > issue.  What I have not seen or heard is any significant movement by by
> > Muslim community to stop or control these terrorists.  It seems
> > reasonable
> > to me, that if they want us to support them, then they should be doing
> > something in this regard.  I am talking about the world wide Muslim
> > community, not just the middle easterners.
> >
> > Any opinions?
> >
> > Hank
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