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Post by fretslider on Jan 1, 2011 15:35:30 GMT
A car bomb killed at least 21 people outside a ****** in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Nearly 1,000 ********s were attending the rites and were just leaving the ****** when the car exploded at 12.30am on New Year's Day. Sectarian tensions have been on the rise in Egypt and after the blast, enraged *********s clashed with police and stormed a nearby ******. Fights and stone throwing broke out between groups of *********s, ******s and the police. Although no one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack, authorities in Egypt blamed The Network for the attack. In November, hundreds of *********s rioted in the capital, Cairo, smashing cars and windows after police violently stopped the construction of a ******. The rare outbreak of ********n unrest in the capital left one person dead. After the car explosion, some *********s from the ****** clashed with police in anger over the blast. The *********s hurled stones at police and a nearby ******, chanting, "With our blood and soul, we redeem the cross." They then stormed into the ******, throwing books inside out onto the street. The protest sparked clashes with ******s, as both sides began throwing stones and bottles at each other in the streets. So whose side is this god really on?
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 1, 2011 17:33:45 GMT
More primitive terrorism.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 2, 2011 2:40:50 GMT
Yes Fret. No doubt Egypt and all other countries would be much better off if the ______ religion were to simply be cancelled out and eliminated. No chance of that but it is a pleasant thought.
Even better would be for all religions to be cancelled out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2011 8:50:08 GMT
Yes Fret. No doubt Egypt and all other countries would be much better off if the ______ religion were to simply be cancelled out and eliminated. No chance of that but it is a pleasant thought. Even better would be for all religions to be cancelled out. Maybe. But very often religious wars aren't really about religion, but about power, land rights, or (and possibly this was the case in Northern Ireland) social inequalities. In these cases religion just happens to be the label that separates one group from another . If there was none, there would be something else by which one group could target another.
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Post by fretslider on Jan 2, 2011 11:42:04 GMT
Yes Fret. No doubt Egypt and all other countries would be much better off if the ______ religion were to simply be cancelled out and eliminated. No chance of that but it is a pleasant thought. Even better would be for all religions to be cancelled out. I thought I'd make it easy on the 'board owner' by omitting the names. We don't want to risk another moratorium... do we? Lets hope one day people will grow up and throw the teddy bear of religion away.
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Post by fretslider on Jan 2, 2011 11:43:34 GMT
Yes Fret. No doubt Egypt and all other countries would be much better off if the ______ religion were to simply be cancelled out and eliminated. No chance of that but it is a pleasant thought. Even better would be for all religions to be cancelled out. Maybe. But very often religious wars aren't really about religion, but about power, land rights, or (and possibly this was the case in Northern Ireland) social inequalities. In these cases religion just happens to be the label that separates one group from another . If there was none, there would be something else by which one group could target another. The point is whatever they choose to do is sanctioned by their mythical being. Religion is just an excuse to be nasty
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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 2, 2011 16:17:10 GMT
Well....it's easier to get people behind something like that. If you went out there and said....."hey...let's all go kill people for Bob.....seriously.....how many people would show up?"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2011 16:42:48 GMT
A.N Historian speaking on the radio gave a somewhat novel explanation of the Crusades. So far as I remember it, it went as follows:
Before the advent of Christianity, young men were forever slaughtering each other, usually over a woman. Then the clergy put a stop to that with all that "thou shall not kill" nonsense. However that did not put a stop to raging hormones, so the clergy said "Okay, you can kill if it isn't a Christian."
Take it with a pinch of salt if you wish, but it has a kind of logic abut it.
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