Charming brides, i saw this, it is set up from a do it yourself mickey mouse agency kit. personaly even if i was joking i would not be joking about receiving money from deception, you never know i might be a member of the police and report you to you border agency. As far as i am aware it is very difficult to get into Australia with convictions as it is in the Uk and USA but bearing in mind Australia is full of muppets it is no surprise that Dansing finds his post funny, would he laugh if he gets a knock on the door at 3 in the morning from the boys in blue.Is he an Ausie or actualy a lady boy from Thailand either way he aint funny and has the brains of a hummimg bird.
Thank God for Allah Ukbah? First of all Pinhead it's Allah Akbar. You should have shown your jubilation with "Takbir" then follow with Allah Akbar. Though I wouldn't expect anything like that from you danny since English is a foreign language to you, Arabic has to be next to impossible, I would suggest not even trying Russian.
Oh I have seen lately that you are having your own problems with Muslims in Australia. See idiot it isn't just Americans, they hate morons like you also.
nasfan6, when pedantically correcting someone, it's best to correct correctly!
The takbir is "Allahu Akbar". The -u ending (credit here to wikipedia, I don't know nothin' about the language) is for the nominative case. In Arabic, normal speech leaves out the case endings, so perhaps this is why I see Allah as the word for God. But the case endings are included for formal religious use.
If "they" hate morons, then we regulars in the forum had better watch our backs.
The Muslims I have met, worked with, and befriended were, on average, rather more gentlemanly and tolerant than I experience my countrymen (here in the USA) to be. The one who was very religiously observant* had an annoying tendency to mix up his religion with his politics ... exactly like my bible-thumping evangelical, Lutheran, and Mormon friends. God save us from those who have found the 'one true religion' -- whichever religion that happens to be.
The only Muslim I have met who impressed me as bigoted was a Ukrainian (a convert I assume, it was not my impression that he came from a Muslim family), who seemed to blame Jews for all of the problems of the Middle East. In this respect he was similar to many thousands (I believe) of other Ukrainians, who blame Jews for all of the problems of Ukraine.
*for those who may not know this, people who are raised Muslim, like those who are raised Jewish or Christian, vary quite a lot in their connection to religion -- from people who wouldn't miss a service or holy day for anything, to those who wouldn't go into a place of worship even if it was their only way to escape a pack of hounds.
Right Durak, it's a tolerant religion, another misinformed person trying to jusitfy Islam as a religion of peace. Sorry but Islam isn't a tolerant religion by any means. Would you like to to site the cases for you?
nas, What have I justified? I talk about my experience, of people I know personally. It is truth -- God's truth, if you like :) Did I make any generalization about Islam as a whole, or all Muslims?
Probably, most Americans don't know any Muslims -- or if they do, they are not aware of their religious identity. When "they" are faceless, distant, vague, unknown, it is easy to forget or deny their simple humanity.
I know many religious people who are truly good and kind. I also know atheists who are truly good and kind. Personally, I believe that the harm religion has done to the world in the past 1000 years has outweighed the good. But I am certain that more rivers of blood have been spilled (at least during the 20th century) because of generalizations about groups of people, than for any other reason.
Durak that's utter nonsense. You did make a generalization about Muslims and Islam when you said they were more "on average" tolerant. When you use on average you are making a generalization. Your disdain for religion is apparent, bible thumping? What are you afraid of?
If it was true about Muslims regarding your footnote about how they are raised, then why did you make such an issue regarding the Minarets in Switzerland? Most Muslims refuse to assimilate in their respective countries and want the host country to subject themselves to their ways even as far as acknowledging only Sharia law. Now that's tolerant.
Since you are the great defender of seperation of church and state, please show me one Muslim country that practices this?? Why has honor killings risen in the Muslim communities, but it's not practiced by the evil Christians? Islam is a suffocating religion, if you know your history at one time the Moslem world was the epicenter of science art and technology until it was suffocated by the teachings of Mohammed. What religion espouses lying to advance their beliefs? Please help me on this one, Did Christ take a 6 year old for his bride?
I love the word harm used with religion. When is most cases it is just the opposite. Who has waged war in the name of Allah? Catholics, Lutherans, Jews??? I'm Catholic, we don't have Jihad as one of our sacred ideals. Before you start going off on the Crusades who initiated the Crusades? It wasn't the Christians. Before you start reciting the evils and violence of the old testament, Please tell me when Islam had it's reformation?? Jesus is referred to as the Prince of Peace and he was truly a martyr. Blowing ones self up to kill others is not being a martyr.
Before using Wikipedia as a source maybe you should read Oriana Fallaci, Paul Weyrich and Tashbiy Sayyed. When was the last time someone wrote a book against the Bible did anyone from Christianity issue a death edict agains the Author? Maybe look up Salhman Rushdie. Or since 9/11 how close are Christians to committing almost 15000 acts of homicide against humanity?
I don't recall any Christians dancing in the streets over the death of any Muslims.
Nice try Durak, see an apologist and appeaser hopes the alligator will eat him last.
How has this post gone from charming brides to islamic exremists in the west. Also why is a muppet claiming to own a website and advertising it in this post and free on this site. If its all a joke on his part then very funny but in all honesty the blokes a knob head.
Australia jihad bust: "The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attack on military personnel until they themselves were killed"
Qur'an 9:111: "Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain."
More on this story. "Australia foils suicide attack on army base, four arrested: police," from Agence France-Presse, August 3:
Australian police have arrested four people with alleged links to Somali Islamists who were planning a suicide attack on a military base, senior officers said on Tuesday.
"The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attack on military personnel until they themselves were killed," said Tony Negus, acting chief commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.
"The men's intentions was to go into these army barracks and to kill as many people as possible.... This would have been, if it had been able to be carried out, the most serious attack on Australian soil," he added.
The suspects of Somali and Lebanese descent were arrested in a series of raids across the southeastern state of Victoria, Negus said.
He said the attack would have been carried out with firearms rather than explosives and added the group had been seeking a "fatwah" to justify its actions.
"Members of the group have been actively seeking a fatwah or religious ruling to justify a terror attack on Australia," Negus said.
Negus said members of the group had links with Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group, which is fighting a deadly insurgency against that country's government.
Confirming what a Kenyan official said recently: "Somalia can be a launching pad for a greater and wider jihadist issue."
Must be America's fault that they are attacking Aussies now.
It's only Australian Catholic priests molesting children, I heard they defrocked you danny because you were gay. See it's the gays who are molesting children, you don't hear of heterosexual Priests molesting children. You fit right in there.
Over and over and over again, you have "put words into my mouth" -- claiming that I said things that I certainly did not.
Example:
nasfan wrote, "You did make a generalization about Muslims and Islam when you said they were more "on average" tolerant."
What durak had written (emphasis added): "The Muslims I HAVE MET, WORKED WITH, AND BEFRIENDED were, on average, rather more gentlemanly and tolerant than I experience my countrymen (here in the USA) to be."
My statement was a generalization about the world's more than 1,300,000,000 Muslims? WHERE DID I WRITE THAT? That is absolutely, unambiguously, unequivocally false. This is not the first such falsehood from nasfan.
Why does nasfan persist in making false statements about my posts? It is because he is (a) unable to understand my posts, (b) able to understand, but deliberately unwilling to do so, or (c) is deliberately distorting what he knows to be true? I don't assume any bad intention. I had a colleague who was a very good guy, and really brilliant intellectually, who had a tough time comprehending through reading -- so (a) may very well be the case, and if nasfan has such a disability, it does not in any way reflect negatively on him.
Anyone who likes can make false statements in this forum, it is not sworn testimony! For me, it is a point of personal pride to speak truth, to the best of my ability. And I welcome correction where I have gotten FACTS (not opinions, judgments, feelings, conclusions etc. etc.) wrong.
By the way, if you look at the religions that probably have more than 10 million adherents today -- then Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Jews all have compiled horrific records of bloodshed. Only Buddhism could make a straight-faced claim to be a religion of peace.
No distortion, you try to be an apologist for a religion that is not of peace. This isn't the first time. You took a swipe at Switzerland for their right of self governance by stopping the building of Minarets.
You also go back prior to the reformation of the Christian church and use examples of the Crusades and other conflicts to show the bloodshed. Well where is the Christian bloodshed now? Over 14000 Murderous attacks in the name of Allah since 9/11. You talk of the past, I'm talking about now? Where are the Christians beheading anyone? What Mosque are they burning down? Where are the Christian honor killings?
You also make the generalization of your fellow countrymen when you say the Muslims on average are more gentlemanly and tolerant. That's absurd. You must live in a snobbish neighborhood There is no tolerance in Islam, none zip zero. As for a disability, I have none, but it's a problem for you to take a moral stand so you will act so erudite. Sorry my vocabulary is quite expansive. I don't have a problem to parse what is BS or take a stand on a position when I have my facts in order. You're narrative is weak. If you have three Muslim friends and 2 are gentlemanly and tolerant that that's only 67%. Without a doubt the sheer numbers of "your" countrymen who are gentlemanly and tolerant would eclipse that figure.
I will also venture to bet when the chips are down, the Muslims will side with their religion at all costs. No matter how gentlemanly the were to you. I'm sure many of their victims thought the same thing just before they lost their heads.
One misconception is that most of the sexual abuse by priests involves pedophilia -- the molestation of pre-pubertal girls and boys. This is not true. The vast majority of cases appears to be by abusive hebephiles -- adults sexually attracted to post-pubertal adolescents. This often takes the form of sexual activity by homosexual priests "with young seminarians or 16- or 17-year-old boys. While such homosexual activities with minors are criminal offenses -- and immoral -- they are certainly not examples of pedophilia or child molestation."
See idiot, it's not the decent priests but the fags like you that have caused this problem.
Also you 756 priests is less than one percent of all the priests in the United States. Nice try idiot but you couldn't put together an argument if someone else did it for you.
this thread is becoming the usual morass of opinion and strongly held belief...I know many Somalis through work...they re generally good friendly people, not on jihad, though most are in the age range to be so...they re all just trying to get on in life, pay the bills and feed their kids...when it comes to religion, just don't talk about it, one can't shake their belief...I know, I have tried to do so, one cannot hold a "what if" kind of discussion with them...the Christians and the Jews, the Islamists and the Hindus have all contributed to the history of conflicts throughout the ages in the name of their respective beliefs...durak is right bout Buddhism...when it all comes down to it, an asshole is an asshole if they act out on their prejudice, regardless of race or religion...Allahu ahkbar, Insha'lah, God willing, In God We Trust, however one wants to say it, is often the justification for a personal demon or hatred...what is really important is how a human being acts in the world...if you come in peace, you will usually receive peace, yet be ready to kill the devious if they attack, this is the way of the warrior...I do find it interesting that in the Haitian disaster now, it is the warriors of the USA who are able to respond to the peoples needs, the coast guard is on site giving logistical support, china (PRC) is sending a 60 person search and rescue tezm, they have recent experience with this type of effort, the UN's WHO is sending a twelve person medical team, and the UN World Food Program is sending massive amounts of food, UK an Eire are sending an 80 person search and rescue team, France and Spain are stepping up with money and personnel (france 130 people), South Africa is sending three search and rescue teams, Obama pledges 100 million dollars, UN 10 million, and UK will match that contribution, Spain is giving 4.3 million, even OZ is contributing10 million...this is a time when the goo nations of the world step up and help their fellow humans regardless of race or religion...before I finish though let me do a google search to see if any Islamic nations are helping, from what I can find, there is no representation from those nations, interesting, eh?
one british doctors blog stated that his practice had raised 1000 GBP, yet his Muslim colleagues would not contribute because Haiti is not an Islamic country...food for thought...it looks like this war will go on for a long time, who will win it?...I am not a christian or an islamic or a jew...I am a wiccan...who out there hates the witches? ha ha ha!!!!...so any way, I hope that all who like to spout the hate here can get back to the topic at hand...those fine russian and ukrainian women and our efforts to marry them...nuff said...Dansing, relax man, you aussies did a damn fine job of killing off one of the worlds oldest and most mystical cultures, the Koori were there from time immemorial, in harmony with their home, Brit convicts did a good job of destruction in their own way...so get real man and spread some peace, instead of dissension
I've noticed no Islamic nation puts their hand into their pockets. but your thoughts about killing off the worlds oldest and mystical cultures, the Koori, you are very wrong with that point of view.
The Koori's are the worlds most protective race and they don't do a bloody thing for society or for themselves.
I recently counted 13 of them in a landcruiser troop carrier in Darwin.
Brand new vehicle, at least $85,000 worth and they don't pay for anything. With bull bar, side rails, roof rack, tow bar, and a dead Kangaroo with a slab of VB to spare.
I've come back from 3 weeks in Darwin, you need to read the NT news, It's a great read.
They want to own all the forests and stop the red gum logging, they want to stop you fishing because they say they own the river with everything in it. No camping, no nothing.
As soon as they get the forest, mining site, beach area, etc, etc, they will sell it and drink the money.
May I suggest a visit to Wilcannia for a few days, that should include pension day.
Go walk the streets and talk to them ;))
I am a humble engineer. In my trade, we deal in reality. No amount of charm, wittiness, moral authority,force of persuasion, or clever argument will make the machine function. It has to be based on solid understanding of reality.
When I post about what I have experienced here -- as I have numerous times -- I write about what I know.
To take a group of perhaps one and a half billion people about whom I know one affiliation, and to declare that I know from this what is in their minds and hearts -- I'm just not that smart. I am a humble engineer. I try to understand the world, and write about what I know.
Not taking sides but perhaps the Japanese government might have considered the ultimate consequences of what might ultimately happen before the decided to, what nowadays might be referred to as terrorism, attack USA personnel, no doubt including women and children, when a state of war did not, at that time, exist between Japan and USA, the Japanese has neglected to deliver the declaration of war before they attacked.
Thereafter, the Japs behaviour during the conflict, their treatment of POW's etc, well it might be said, by some, that they got everything that they deserved!
My father fought during WWII, in Asia, he never had a bad word to say about the action that USA ultimately took.