Libya- 'rebels' show their gratitude

Libya- 'rebels' show their gratitude

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Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

230 months

Friday 2nd March 2012
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Mermaid said:
Jimbeaux said:
True to an extent. "All that" in many ways is what gives us our values and drive. smile
Jim is in a generous mood today thumbup
It's Friday.

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Friday 2nd March 2012
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Mermaid said:
Jimbeaux said:
True to an extent. "All that" in many ways is what gives us our values and drive. smile
Jim is in a generous mood today thumbup
yes

I have to get some work done but would love to get my teeth into this debate as it covers a lot of the basic ground on my socio-political and religious theories.

America is certainly a stronger place due to the sound basis of a lot of the values the majority of the population hold dear. Where I stand though is that the religious element, and therefore the extremes that that brings, is superfluous to it all in an enlightened society and if anything only ends up in detracting from the ultimate ideal and the willingness of people to modify their ways. By that I include all religions from Islam to Judaism to Shinto to RC to Protestant and so on.

Religion is nothing more than a means to control the behaviour of a large group of people, just like a government. The difference is that one uses the fear of removal of your personal life, liberty and/or chattels to impose its will as well as the lifetime persecution of the individual by those who follow the word of the government unquestioningly. The other uses the fear of eternal damnation and so forth (I am obviously simplifying for brevity) and in the case of theocracies has both decks to play with.

TeamD

4,913 posts

231 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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Jimbeaux said:
Mermaid said:
Jimbeaux said:
True to an extent. "All that" in many ways is what gives us our values and drive. smile
Jim is in a generous mood today thumbup
It's Friday.
That'll be not the be usual riot after prayers then?

Only kidding btw biggrin

TotalControl

8,008 posts

197 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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Not trying to open up another can of worms, but it usually is misguided turnips that do these sort of things, and they can be from any religion/sect/culture.

http://www.demotix.com/news/919348/mamilla-islamic...

However, the so called 'Muslims' in the OP video are complete dheads for doing what they did. There's no disputing that.

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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TeamD said:
Jimbeaux said:
Mermaid said:
Jimbeaux said:
True to an extent. "All that" in many ways is what gives us our values and drive. smile
Jim is in a generous mood today thumbup
It's Friday.
That'll be not the be usual riot after prayers then?


jayb289

124 posts

155 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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but i thought these were the "good guys", i mean the "allies" usually get it right... oh wait lol

lets be honest here, libya was never about giving people their freedom and human rights, neither is it in syria, iran or any other arab country. i can tell you one thing, all the do gooders on here who keep making threads talking about assad and all the other nutcases acting like you lose sleep over whats happening in the middle east will probably live to regret your words. i never forgot on op herrick when the taliban was using the same fire and maneuver tactics we and the yanks used, how did they learn it? it was taught to them(some of them were old mujahadeen and passed on the know how) to help defeat the russians and they tweaked it to devastating effect.
countries like iran, syria etc needs to be run by people like assad and khameni, but i see people on here complaining about people getting their heads smashed in when they try to kick off in iran, but then complain about the afghanis getting out of hand, what do you think will happen if the government is overrun and "rebels" take over. the middle east is not london, they dont attack charity shops, they attack embassies armed with gimpys and not one phook is given. as long as we meddle in their business, things like this will happen, anybody whose ever been to that side of the world will tell yo they hate the british far more than they do nazi germany, so kicking over world war 2 graves means nothing to them.

Edited by jayb289 on Saturday 3rd March 01:46

MX7

7,902 posts

173 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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jayb289 said:
countries like iran, syria etc needs to be run by people like assad and khameni
I thought you said that there was no significant difference between any politicians?

jayb289 said:
as straight up as i see any other politician whether at home or abroad
Yet now you seem to be able to distinguish the difference between "people like assad" and other politicians quite easily.


Victor McDade

4,395 posts

181 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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Democracy is a gradual process. You can't expect people who have been ruled over by force and tyranny for so long to suddenly live as we do as soon as the dictator is gone.

Suggesting that these nations can only function with a dictator is factually incorrect imo.

Muslims seem to do okay with democracy in places like Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey. So is it really a religious thing?

And look at the post imperial democracies of last century. When the 'masters' left it took decades for the rule of law and politics to stabilise but it did so eventually (take India as an example).


TheHeretic

73,668 posts

254 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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Victor McDade said:
Muslims seem to do okay with democracy in places like Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey. So is it really a religious thing?
The same malaysia that deported a Saudi national for saying some really quite terrible things on twitter? he had the temerity to be on a Saudi watchlist of pro-democracy activists. How dare he.

Yeah, some great democracies out there. This chap could well be executed for what he said, which was really not in any way offensive. The following video shows what was said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ho8tunttg

madala

5,063 posts

197 months

Saturday 3rd March 2012
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Elroy Blue said:
It was always going to happen of course. This cemetry survived all the years under Gadaffi and then this happens.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1330621949
.....My god....I did three seconds of that and it was enough to make me want to KILL this scum......s.

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

230 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Victor McDade said:
Democracy is a gradual process. You can't expect people who have been ruled over by force and tyranny for so long to suddenly live as we do as soon as the dictator is gone.

Suggesting that these nations can only function with a dictator is factually incorrect imo.

Muslims seem to do okay with democracy in places like Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey. So is it really a religious thing?

And look at the post imperial democracies of last century. When the 'masters' left it took decades for the rule of law and politics to stabilise but it did so eventually (take India as an example).
South Africa can fit into that mould in a some ways.

Frankeh

12,558 posts

184 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Just a bunch of s being s. Every country has them.

This would be like the Libyans watching an EDL march and thinking that was an accurate representation of the british people.

Basically, keep calm and carry on.

Soovy

35,829 posts

270 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Frankeh said:
Basically, keep calm and carry on.
bks.

How would you feel if your father was being dug up?

Bill

52,407 posts

254 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Soovy said:
bks.

How would you feel if your father was being dug up?
Let's not get too carried away, they're not digging people up, they've smashed some gravestones.

Frankeh

12,558 posts

184 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Soovy said:
Frankeh said:
Basically, keep calm and carry on.
bks.

How would you feel if your father was being dug up?
No one was dug up. Stop talking bks.
A few grave stones were knocked over and they hammered at a cross a bit. The authorities have apologised profusely and there's already efforts under way to repair the damage.

As I said, keep calm and carry on.

MX7

7,902 posts

173 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Soovy said:
Frankeh said:
Basically, keep calm and carry on.
bks.

How would you feel if your father was being dug up?
What do you think we should do Soovy?

Frankeh

12,558 posts

184 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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MX7 said:
Soovy said:
Frankeh said:
Basically, keep calm and carry on.
bks.

How would you feel if your father was being dug up?
What do you think we should do Soovy?
Pre-emptive nuclear strike against everything he doesn't understand. We're doomed.

Mr_B

10,480 posts

242 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Frankeh said:
Just a bunch of s being s. Every country has them.

This would be like the Libyans watching an EDL march and thinking that was an accurate representation of the british people.

Basically, keep calm and carry on.
No, it would be like if a bunch of Muslims in the Middle East burnt a copy of a dictionary and the EDL went and filmed themselves desecrating grave stones/sites as a direct response to that.
As you might see, that would be totally retarded. As much as I dislike the EDL, they are free to march and express their opinion, the two not even being close to comparison.

Frankeh

12,558 posts

184 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Mr_B said:
the two not even being close to comparison.
Google search that took 10 seconds.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/edl-mem...

Totally comparable and I bet there's many more examples but I'm not going to waste any more of my time looking them up.

To reiterate, every country has s including our own. Just ignore them.

Countdown

39,607 posts

195 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Frankeh said:
To reiterate, every country has s including our own. Just ignore them.
yes

A couple of other examples

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-he...

http://digitaljournal.com/article/312685

(So it's not just british graves in Libya these morons are desecrating)