Gee Frank, you mean like this one from the Washington Post, dated September 16, 2001?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Iraq#1991.E2.80.932004

But this came after he spend decades ruthlessly stamping out those religious muslim leaders he considered to be threats to his own rule.

So can anyone explain to me how say So can anyone explain to me how say Iran v. Iraq marks Muslims as “warlike” but Germany v. France, or Germany v. Britain, or Germany v. Poland doesn’t do the same for Christians?

Who said that “Iran v. Iraq marks Muslims as ‘warlike’”? Not I.

“Germany v. France, or Germany v. Britain, or Germany v. Poland doesn’t do the same for Christians?” because there was zero religious component to the war.

I am not certain, but one could say that Iran v Iraq was interreligious. I doubt it, but it is not totally out of the question.

I am not certain, but one could say that Iran v Iraq was interreligious. I doubt it, but it is not totally out of the question.

I think he would agree with what you just said. That’s the rub.

Because they were white.

If you ask for a link, I will fry your computer by cyberpsychokinesis

=;-}

I am very familiar with the Middle East, and Islam. I have a healthy respect for the people and their beliefs. I also think, however, that there is a deep resentment in the Middle East — not so much in America, but neither is it non-existent — for America as a representation of the West, as Britain, for example, was until World War I. Things turned for the middle east, and Arabs in particular, after World War I, with the redivision of colonies, the Balfour Declaration, and the addition of oil rights to the Middle East mix.
It was when I studied World War I and the Middle East, that it all came to me at once: Babylonia, Mesopotamia, the Eastern Roman Empire, Islam, the Crusades and the sacking of Constantinople , western Europe’s colonization of the Americas, and then , damn near everything else , the Congresses of Berlin and Vienna, and finally, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 – all leading to what Samuel Huntington has called “The Clash of Civilizations”, and Norman Podhoretz has called “World War IV”.

I would love to have seen the kind of full page ads C A I R likes to post, posted by moderate middle easterners from all around the world , denouncing the barbarism of 9/11, and all the other explosions that killed so many other innocent civilians.

I am still waiting.

But has it influenced your thinking on the mattter? That’s the real question here.

Hehe.

Are you admitting those aren’t thoe only two possibilities, AO?

Dr. Maher Hathout, from the the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and The Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC), condemns the attack and issues a statement.

Dr. Ahmad Sakr, from the Islamic Education Center (IEC), offers his condolences to the families of the victims and condemns the attack.

Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), condemns the attack.

“Scholars Call Attacks a Distortion of Islam,” Laurie Goodstein, The News York Times, 30 September 2001

A Common Word Between Us and You, by 130 Islamic scholars

Attacks on Civilians: Forbidden by Islam, by Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi

Ayatollah Muhammad Husain Fadlallah of Lebanon condemns Osama Bin Laden, by Ayatollah Muhammad Husain Fadlallah

Bin Laden’s Violence is a Heresy Against Islam, by AbdulHakim Murad (Tim Winter)

Defending the Civilians (a fatwa against terrorism), by Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti

Expert Says Islam Prohibits Violence Against Innocents, by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar Condemns Suicide Bombings, by Shaykh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi

High Mufti of Russian Muslims calls for Extradition of Bin Laden, by Russian Muslim leaders

This is absolutely NOT the same as saying that “God spoke to me, and said I could bring peace to the Middle East”. In fact, nowhere does he suggest that he would convert the people of Iraq to Christianity.

You gonna to work on those rhetorical skills.

Canadian bacon: Is he related to the famous Greek tailor , Euripides Eupaiphades?

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”

Euripides

That same criteria applies to another fella that took God’s orders and tallied up a minimum of 60,000- If you’re still working on the “in the name of G-d since 1900″ quotient.

If you insist on hitting yourself in the face, let me help you.