Anonymous wrote:Religion is secondary in those conflicts?? Is that why they are slaughtering women and children in Iraq?

Anonymous wrote:Let us not forget our Muslim pals in Nigeria, Boko Haram. Muslima, how are they working to help the world?

Anonymous wrote:They do profess to be Muslims. No other group in the world states their religion as a reason to kill....

Anonymous wrote:Will the OP posting fake pictures of Palestinans just stop and go back to your Hamas rally? Or Hamas tunnel? I hope Israel keeps up this offensive for weeks until every last terrorrist, tunnel, rocket launching pad and the entirety of the Gazan terrorist infrastrucure is destroyed. If all of Gaza has to be razed to do so, let it happen. The people of Gaza are getting what they wanted when they elected Hamas. They wanted a bloodthirsty, war-mongering group built on hatred and war to lead them, so this is what they get after Hamas started another war with Israel. I wish the rest of the world would get out of Israel's way and let them crush these animals. No other country on Earth, ever, has had to put up with a neighbor launching rockets on their civilians on a nearly daily basis, year after year. Fight on, IDF!!!

Anonymous wrote:Please accept my ignorance but I am looking at a world map on line and can't find a country named Palestine on the map.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the posters advocating peaceful means, when will you begin boycotting companies that do business with Israel? When will you begin demanding the US stop supporting Israel. This and only this is what broke the South Africa Apartheid. Money.

Exactly. It was the boycotting of South Africa, the embargo and complete withdrawal of financial dealings that did them in. NOT blowing people up.

Now that we know it's possible, how can we support people who engage in violence to make these kinds of changes?

Who was blown up in the past 19 days? Do I need to remind you the facts?

About 5,870 Palestinians have been wounded with 1000+ dead, over 80% civilians

Israeli deaths are 40 soldiers and two civilians.


Who is engaging in Violence?

Please, just discuss the reality of the situation instead of pretending. What's going on now is a result of the Palestinians repeatedly attacking the Israelis. The Israelis are fight back -- and they're winning because they are much bigger and more powerful.

Muslima wrote:
Not true. I have been Muslim all of my life, I am a sunni and 90% of the Muslims i know are Sunnis and we don't go around wishing death to the Shi'a. Yes there are Sunni/Shia conflicts around the world but those are in very specific areas and very politicized , religion is really secondary in those conflicts even though people use religion's name most of the time to justify their actions.

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Muslima wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:For all the posters advocating peaceful means, when will you begin boycotting companies that do business with Israel? When will you begin demanding the US stop supporting Israel. This and only this is what broke the South Africa Apartheid. Money.

Exactly. It was the boycotting of South Africa, the embargo and complete withdrawal of financial dealings that did them in. NOT blowing people up.

Now that we know it's possible, how can we support people who engage in violence to make these kinds of changes?

Who was blown up in the past 19 days? Do I need to remind you the facts?

About 5,870 Palestinians have been wounded with 1000+ dead, over 80% civilians

Israeli deaths are 40 soldiers and two civilians.


Who is engaging in Violence?

Please, just discuss the reality of the situation instead of pretending. What's going on now is a result of the Palestinians repeatedly attacking the Israelis. The Israelis are fight back -- and they're winning because they are much bigger and more powerful.

It's not a fair fight and you know. The Israelis took an Uzi to a kitchen knife fight. If the US would give the Palestinians the same arms they provide to Israel, then we can begin to talk about a fair fight. In regards to Palestinians repeatedly attacking the Israelis, I guess you only believe what you want to believe and not facts. There have been former and current IDF soldiers who say otherwise in regards to who is initiating many of these attacks, but you choose to ignore them.

Anonymous wrote:I just wanted to wish Muslima Eid Mubarak!

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Muslima wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:For all the posters advocating peaceful means, when will you begin boycotting companies that do business with Israel? When will you begin demanding the US stop supporting Israel. This and only this is what broke the South Africa Apartheid. Money.

Exactly. It was the boycotting of South Africa, the embargo and complete withdrawal of financial dealings that did them in. NOT blowing people up.

Now that we know it's possible, how can we support people who engage in violence to make these kinds of changes?

Who was blown up in the past 19 days? Do I need to remind you the facts?

About 5,870 Palestinians have been wounded with 1000+ dead, over 80% civilians

Israeli deaths are 40 soldiers and two civilians.


Who is engaging in Violence?

Please, just discuss the reality of the situation instead of pretending. What's going on now is a result of the Palestinians repeatedly attacking the Israelis. The Israelis are fight back -- and they're winning because they are much bigger and more powerful.

It's not a fair fight and you know. The Israelis took an Uzi to a kitchen knife fight. If the US would give the Palestinians the same arms they provide to Israel, then we can begin to talk about a fair fight. In regards to Palestinians repeatedly attacking the Israelis, I guess you only believe what you want to believe and not facts. There have been former and current IDF soldiers who say otherwise in regards to who is initiating many of these attacks, but you choose to ignore them.

NP. Yes, you are correct. It is not a fair fight.

When you attack another country, you don't get to then complain it's not a "fair fight" because the country you attacked is stronger than you are, and hits back harder than you hit them.

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Muslima wrote:
Not true. I have been Muslim all of my life, I am a sunni and 90% of the Muslims i know are Sunnis and we don't go around wishing death to the Shi'a. Yes there are Sunni/Shia conflicts around the world but those are in very specific areas and very politicized , religion is really secondary in those conflicts even though people use religion's name most of the time to justify their actions.

I am sure you don't, and this is not about individual attitudes of Sunnis to Shias. Yes, it is political, but the whole Sunni/Shia split was political and has since been enshrined in the mainstream Sunni ideology, which serves to cement the dominant position of Sunnis over the Muslim "community", whatever that means (and it honestly means nothing in the absence of external enemy). Saudi textbooks, which AlSaud's money has spread around the world as the chapter-and-verse of true Islam refers to Shia blood and property as halal to kill and take over. Of course the conflict in Iraq is about political power but that feeling of entitlement to domination both politically and economically is very much a part of mainstream Sunni discourse bolstered by the ideology. If you don't know this, you simply haven't read it, which is OK, but don't say it doesn't exist.