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RE: I wonder how this is playing in Saudi Arabia?
July 7, 2016 at 12:38 am
probably blame atheists.
According to their laws we're all terrorists.
I propose all women in SA cause a boob quake.
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RE: I wonder how this is playing in Saudi Arabia?
July 7, 2016 at 7:37 am
Well one more, huge, reason to jump and develop technologies to abandon use of oil. I was talking earler about stuff like TWR reactors - why not urgently jump on it's development?
Because as Bernard Lewis said:
Imagine if the Ku Klux Klan or Aryan Nation obtained total control of Texas and had at its disposal all the oil revenues, and used this money to establish a network of well-endowed schools and colleges all over Christendom peddling their particular brand of Christianity. This was what the Saudis have done with Wahhabism. The oil money has enabled them to spread this fanatical, destructive form of Islam all over the Muslim world and among Muslims in the West. Without oil and the creation of the Saudi kingdom, Wahhabism would have remained a lunatic fringe.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: I wonder how this is playing in Saudi Arabia?
July 7, 2016 at 9:30 am
Well, here's something interesting...You'd think the Saudi government would crack down on this terrorism by rounding up the suspects and simply executing them all, right? Well, you'd be wrong...
Quote:RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The “guests” are issued key cards for their rooms, receive three catered meals per day and sleep in luxury suites outfitted with big-screen TVs, king-size beds and shiny wallpaper.
They call it the Family House, and it feels like a boutique hotel, if you can overlook the lack of windows, the towering walls outside and the location — inside one of Saudi Arabia’s high-security prisons for jihadists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/world/...dists.html
That's extremely suspicious that a normally cutthroat regime has suddenly taken such a liberal attitude towards dealing with terrorists. It's almost as if they're cultivating terrorism, as opposed to attacking it...
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RE: I wonder how this is playing in Saudi Arabia?
July 7, 2016 at 9:32 am
. . . while playing both (all) sides for chumps, or at least, until recently, trying to.
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