You have a bizarre concept of how these things work. How do you pay for the people? How do buy supplies? What's used to purchase the medicines? Wow, you don't suppose it could be money do you?Godless said:*
I'm not claiming that we should not send aid, in the form of "people, supplies, medical needs, food, etc." my beef is sending just money that dwindles our resourses,
I don't need to. I get plenty of it from here.marv said:I put superstition behind me a long time ago, probably before you were born. I've also learned not to be thin skinned. Now, if you want to see real hate, go to that Sunni forum.
That's the thing. Muslims do denounce him as an infidel to Islam, yet you do not hear those voices. Every Muslim I've spoken to in person and on here have done so. The question that needs to be asked Marv is why don't you ever see or hear it? Is it because you don't wish to or because it doesn't fit into your classification of what a Muslim should be?Individually, I don't hate muslims. But I have a very, very, very serious problem with what the likes of a UBL does. And where are the decent, law-abiding muslims to declare him an apostate, an infidel to the Islam religion? There is a great silence with but soft, scattered voices saying, "Oh well, we don't approve of him." Is that all there is?
No you aren't to blame for their lack of education or skills. But you are to blame for perpetrating the hate that continues on our side of the world. You also misrepresent and put hate out there on all Muslims with threads such as this. Your helping make this a tit for tat battle.Read the on-line versions of the Arab News or Yemen Times and see the hate and misrepresentations they put to the world. Who am I to be sorry for the youth of Saudi who lack practical trades and skills to contribute something to their nation? I wasn't the one to see that they only learned religion.
The question was Marv, have all Muslims done something wrong, and I find it interesting that you choose to change it to suit your own needs in your response. I don't deny that there are some crazy, sick Muslims out there in the world who are hell bent on destruction. Just as there are right wing nuts from all sides of the globe, be they Jewish, Christian, Hindue, etc, who are also the same as the Muslims who wish to see our destruction. Only difference between you and me is that I know that not all Muslims are the same, just as all Jews, Christian, Hindu, etc are not all the same. The few do not represent or speak for the whole.Your attitude, Bells, does not in any way help to promote any good will or solve any problem at any level. Have muslims done anything wrong, indeed! Denial doesn't cut chips as a wood cutter might say. There are people who commit crimes, and there are people who do nothing to prevent them. It's difficult to tell the difference.
Just as there are small numbers of people representing all creeds and faiths who have done wrong, yet do not represent the rest of us. Tell me something Marv, when McVeigh bombed the Federal building, did he represent you and fellow Americans in his views? He and his cronies were white blooded Americans, yet they did not represent the whole. There are a small number of right wing Christians who actually do wish to overthrow the Government in the US... they have their own little army.. and if they were given the money, they probably would act on it.. do they represent you Marv? The same applies to Muslims. The actions of that very small and active number do not represent all Muslims on this planet.No, not all muslims have done wrong, but a small and very active number do.
Godless said:Gravity;
You know I don't support this unjust war, right?. I don't support the puppet in office either.
And the expence has just been raised to almost two billion a week. You got to account for the amount of "body bags" that are constantly been used for our kids and theirs.
Godless.
Bells said:There are a small number of right wing Christians who actually do wish to overthrow the Government in the US... they have their own little army.. and if they were given the money, they probably would act on it.. do they represent you Marv? The same applies to Muslims. The actions of that very small and active number do not represent all Muslims on this planet.
You have a bizarre concept of how these things work. How do you pay for the people? How do buy supplies? What's used to purchase the medicines? Wow, you don't suppose it could be money do you?
cool skill said:Let's taka a gander on how dumb tis thread is:
Marv:
"Following the death of over 3000 innocents on September 11, 2001, over 30,000 muslims were killed in an earthquage in Iran. Now, over 23,000, mostly muslims"
**They were Catholics**
"from Indonesia to the western coast of Africa, have been killed as a result of the tsunami resulting from the earthquake that moved the island of Sumatra more than 100 feet!"
**Sorry, but the flood was not a result of an island that was moved by an earthquake.**
"Retribution for evil-doing?"
**Evil-doing. Can you be anymore brainwashed? Reiterating terms that come out of the mouth of the moron president is not helping your argument.
"Evil-doing" is what America is best at. Perhaps if such a large-scale tragedy were to occur in the United States, you would probably blame it in the Muslims instrad of America's evil-doing.
marv said:Following the death of over 3000 innocents on September 11, 2001, over 30,000 muslims were killed in an earthquage in Iran. Now, over 23,000, mostly muslims from Indonesia to the western coast of Africa, have been killed as a result of the tsunami resulting from the earthquake that moved the island of Sumatra more than 100 feet! Retribution for evil-doing?
Meanwhile, the "Christian/crusader" nation of the United States is putting together a package of relief more than twice what the oil-rich muslim brothers are doing; not to speak of what American private relief organizations are doing!
But the United Nations is doing what it does best - talking about doing "something".
skywalker said:More for marv,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=9005179
Path,
They were from all religions. A sad and a tragic event. My prayers are with all the familes hurt by this event.
marv said:Meanwhile, the "Christian/crusader" nation of the United States is putting together a package of relief more than twice what the oil-rich muslim brothers are doing