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How Radovan Karadzic Helped Cause 9/11
It may not seem a reasonable assumption that an orthodox Chritsian, ex-doctor,failed poet and newly minted alternative medicine practitioner may have been a factor in the 9/11 attacks but his was one of the reasons behind the Jihadi resurgence in Europe and the radicalization of a generation of western born Muslims. Karadzic was ...
Posted to Foreigners by DirectHex on July 24, 2008
Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking
It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008
Re: moderation is extremism
princesswonderful: we have to acknowledge that there is absolutely no earthly authority who can ideologically police actions which bear the marks of religious interpretation or carry a claim (however irrational by empirical standards) of divine mandate. moderate religious practice (of all faiths) only further entrenches the dangerously ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on December 19, 2007