1- "... I think what the egyptain media is saying is what a lot of popele on the net are saying is that it was a bit suspicious that 400 jews (or whatever it was) didn't turn upto work, and that somebody rang up the Israelis and give a warning 2 hours before hand, and as far as i know both are true but they dont really mean anything.... "
We've got our wires crossed here....I'm not implying that jews are somehow part of a consperisy, and i honestly didn't think that mossad even knew about it, I mean there's an absoloutly rediculous number of phone calls made clamming to be "warnings", infact i said that these facts dont really mean anything on thier own, and i'm showing you how taking selected facts should really constitute lying... both sides of the media are guilty of it...
2-"Another thing thing the Talaban don't fight like,
an Army because they don't have an army they fight like,
street gangs they hide behind house's and in allys ,
plus hide behind women and children in the dark and fight like the cowards they are."
SKee1 there's a name for fighting like this... It's called guerilla warefare, and they fight like this because they've only got the left over weapons from the russians...There is an embarassing asymetry between the two sides... and have a look at the reports of the first "meetins" with the talaban soldiers... thos crazy mothers fought back like maniacs..
You can call them barbarains, butchers, murderers etc, but i dont think that someone who fights with the porpouse of dying a coward... oh yeah the afagans aren't arabs, so please stop calling them that... the only reason i say this, is because the word arab has almost become a swear word used on the enemy...
3- "Look at many arab nations though, which look upon their people as cannon fodder."
name one arab country with a democratically elect government!!!... This is the reason why arabs are complaining of their own leaders and governments..
4- Flag burning is now assocaited with arabs, even though you see and know full well that it's happening if pakistan, and at the start in Indonesia .. the pakistani's aren't arabs, they speak a different langauge (URDU) and have a very different culture... The indonesians are not arabs either...
5- The definition of a muslim is someone who belives in one god, and gives thier purpouse to god... which basically means you go about you're daily life as normal, but you dont put in any other gods or give god kids... This actaully means that Jews are muslim too, but this definition is pretty loose, the modern muslim is basically some one who belives in god (traditionally called Allah, which is just the arab word for god), takes the koran to be the word of god, prays five times a day etc etc... But i think the main point is that you say, fully believing, "there is only one god, and mohammed is his prophet", and then you just take bath, which is kinda like being baptised, but you do it yer sel'. Voila! One instant muslim...
6-" They are very buddy-buddy with us, and love to be friends with us in the international media, but their media back home decries us as the worst scum on the Earth.
Muslim nations have a really bad habit of doing this. Iran, Egypt, Kuwait, Yemen, and every other nation in that region all do it"
EXACTLY!!! I've said this before... The saudis are nice to the US cos they basically have a pact where if the royal family is overthrown by thier suppressed masses they're put back in power by the US military. THIS IS OFFICAIL... why do you think the US get's oil cheap... Me and chritoph have already discussed this...
7-"But for some reason, it seems much of the arab world views a step forward as a step away from God, and a slap to the face of their religion. "
Eh? what are you talking about? Look at Libyia, during the oil boom during the seventies, they grabbed the first chance to "modernise", and have a look at Omman... Infact where do you think the steroetype of the rich arab sheik driving BMWs (or any other fast german cars) comes from?
They do worry about "western" morals though... things like premarital Se x, teenage pregnances, the selfishness of "individuality", the "death" of the family etc etc etc... which is kinda fair...
8- Again agree with Raskilnikov... in fact pretty much with everything... The messages are English (instead of the local language) for a reason, they're orchastraited for the media, and they're lapping it up...
Sorry to make such a lengthy reply, but I'm having to reply to so many replys...
For the record I look like a really big tough bouncer... but far away...
why did i start this? oh well...