And the fact is, I have heard of NO imams denouncing these acts. If I am wrong, please point me to a single imam who has publicly denounced these acts. I'd like to send the man a letter of encouragement for his boldness
The National Party is in serious decline. Every election it has lost seats, and this one doesn't look like it will be any different. It could never make government on its own.
Americans don't need to worry about their national debt. If it becomes too large and too draining, the US will simply declare it's not going to pay it back, and just take the repercussions of such a move. After all, there's nobody to stop them.
The sad thing is the wets in the Liberal Party today are right in the thick of everything - Vanstone, Costello and the ridiculous foreign minister are all wets. We're seeing the more "welfare liberal" side of the Party, and it's hard to tell it apart from the religious conservatives. Without the motivation of profit, mo
the problem is that the rebels feel the same way that bin Laden does, Some of them feel like that. There would be many, particularly amongst the young, who felt they were solely fighting for the independence of their homeland, or to avenge the deaths of the
One of the best ways the US could relieve the aid problem would be to pay off or cancel some of the 3rd world debt. Many countries have to devote the majority of their income to paying off the interest on loans, money that could be better spent improving infrastructure, public health or education. The island nation of Nauru will be bankrupt soon due to an inability to pay back the loans it was given as part of aid arrangements - if it does, that will
SSG Geezer: Yeah, it was a bit over the top, but I was slightly enhanced when I wrote it. cwarsh: Supplying weapons and equipment to both sides of a war is both good business and good foreign policy. It keeps your own industry running and weakens the two countries involved to such an extent that a) they cannot resist an attack and b) they will never even think of banding together against the one who's causing all the mischief. As f
to an extent the Hadiths are the ABSOLUTE word of God Anyone quoting a hadith is generally on very shaky ground. With them split into three categories (good, sound and unsound) a reputable santri/imam/mullah wouldn't base their whole interpretation on hadith. I'm surprised the article doesn't
First of all, thanks for all the comments ladies and gentlemen. This article was an experiment in a more passionate writing style for me, and it's good to see that so many people thought it was worth a comment. However I'd like to say right now that any further name-calling and other childish bullshit will not be tolerated on my blog. If you spend time abusing the person and not the point, and you don't at the same time say something incredi
on a serious note, though, I do think that freedom of the press was meant to include porn. Despite the "cleaning up" many of our historians have done, bawdy behavior was very much a tradition of the times. It always has been. Have you seen some of the "political cartoons" coming out of France at about
I guess all I'm saying is that if she lacks the faith to believe, then she shouldn't be in church. After all, I've never heard of any cases of someone dying due to taking communion - maybe it does become divine.
The image of Islam, this immense and diverse faith, has been of the robed and bearded man, rifle in one hand, Qu'ran in the other, a bomb around his waist and hate in his eyes. They are everywhere, and their diabolical hand can be seen in every disaster. They are poisoning water supplies, raping white women, using their loathed petrodollars to take over our business
The benefits of gun registration aren't going to be seen for decades. It's not a short-term solution or proposal. Certainly criminals will still be able to buy unregistered weapons. But the fact of the matter is that if a serious attempt is made to track every weapon from the factory to the buyer in the shop, then eventually the only guns on the streets will be registered to someone. I could be wrong here, but I don't think many crackheads keep the
That's one of the biggest problems with transubstantiation. Has she ever tried taking it? If she was a real Catholic she'd believe totally and utterly that it ceases being bread and becomes the body of Christ before it is taken. She just needs to have faith.
First of all, stevendedalus - I know English probably isn't your first language, but it would be great if you used simpler words if you want to get your point across clearly. Some of the phrases you use are illogical, contradictory or just a grammatical nightmare; there are some great monosyllabic words out there that would fit better. If you wrote articles in the same way that you make replies there'd be no
I think Iran is quite perceptive to push forward its plans for the development of nuclear weapons. If there's one thing US foreig policy has shown over the last hundred years, it's that only the threat of nuclear weapons will prevent the invasion of a enemy power. The only possible way that Iran can safeguard its future as a sovereign state is by becoming a nuclear power. I don't like it, but then again the US has done a lot to antagonise Iran in re
Try taking the cover off an officially acceptable book and stapling it over the cover of another book. Who knows - it might work.
I use Windowblinds (a shareware version) and it works fine for me. The OpenOffice "file" menu doesn't work properly with my favourite theme, but it works with every other one I've tried, so personally I think that most of the bugs I've ever seen using it (and so far that's the only one) are too insignificant to justify the slamming that Sacrat gave it.
That's unusual for government outsourcing. In Australia they outsourced most of the IT jobs and then rehired back all of the old IT staff as "consultants" for two or three times as much money. It's a shame that your government is so mercenary though.
Previous polling shows Badnarik at 3% nationwide and covering the gap between Kerry and Bush in several swing states Does the US have a preferential voting system (ie does Bush/Kerry need a simple majority or do they need to collect 51% through primary votes and preferences)? Only in that case would 3%
The separation of state power that led the Kuomintang to leave the mainland for Taiwan is dramatically different to the situation whereby England cut its colonial ties with Australia, but I that's not really important. China is important to Australia - it's our second largest trading partner and is estimated to challenge Japan for the number one spot within the next decade or so. The US is slowly slipping down in raw trade numbers, although t
It makes good sense though for a poor country like India to work like that. It's way too expensive to pay official US prices for medicine.
Let's hope there's a big scandal about Chinese and Russian gymnasts and the American track and field athletes, cos then we might have a good chance of coming number 1 in the tally!
The main problem with the electoral college in my view is not that it allocates votes according to state size, but that it is entirely up to the electors who they decide to give those votes to. At the moment and in the past they have done as the people have voted, but can anyone be sure that this will continue? The electoral college is decidedly undemocratic and a legacy of the aristocratic past.
If the US is now facing problems with holy sites, it should consider setting up a force made exclusively of Muslim soldiers and use that to take over Islamic sites. The Wahhabis slaughtered hundreds in Mecca centuries ago, so it's not like widespread death and distruction is alien to the holy cities of Islam.
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