Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Not really a good comparison there, imo.
no, its fairly apt
actually, its even more egrigeous than what KK said. It would be like lumping every carribean, latin and south american nation together as a single block of people
there is no "Arab world" outside of geographic boundaries, and the "Muslim World" stretches from the Phillipeans to the west coast of africa, with regions of chinese, indian and dozens of other nationalities not normally associeted with "muslim" issues.
Admadinejad has come out and condemned the Libyan government killing its own people.
http://www.iranian.com/main/2011/feb/ahmadinejad-condemns-qaddafi
LoLz.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Sure, but only a pedantic nerd would hear "the arab world" and think " he's talking about the Philippines". I'm relatively sure that society is not supposed to cater to pedantic nerds, as they're the reason for why we can't have anything nice.
tbh, I'm not as critial of your point on the line KK is, but I do understand his point
I get you were using short hand, but the problem is that the way we refer to things does affect the way we percieve them, but ya, again, I replied with the clash of civs thing
Originally posted by Robtard
Admadinejad has come out and condemned the Libyan government killing its own people.http://www.iranian.com/main/2011/feb/ahmadinejad-condemns-qaddafi
LoLz.
epic facepalm
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Sure, but only a pedantic nerd would hear "the arab world" and think " he's talking about the Philippines". I'm relatively sure that society is not supposed to cater to pedantic nerds, as they're the reason for why we can't have anything nice.
Exactly. The words "Arab World" and "Muslim World" are often used interchangeably, and its perfectly reasonable. The Philippines has Muslims in it, but its a Catholic country. China and India both have Muslim minorities, but Muslims in both nations are utterly outnumbered by the older native religions. In order for a country to be included in the Muslim World, Islam must be the majority religion, and the Arabic language for it to be considered a part of the Arab World.
And it just so happens--uncoincidentally--that Arabic-speaking countries are also Muslim-majority countries.
Iraq
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Exactly. The words "Arab World" and "Muslim World" are often used interchangeably, and its perfectly reasonable. The Philippines has Muslims in it, but its a Catholic country. China and India both have Muslim minorities, but Muslims in both nations are utterly outnumbered by the older native religions. In order for a country to be included in the Muslim World, Islam must be the majority religion, and the Arabic language for it to be considered a part of the Arab World.And it just so happens--uncoincidentally--that Arabic-speaking countries are also Muslim-majority countries.
Originally posted by King Kandy
Which, I hope you understand, does not include Iran.
I know. But its a Muslim country. So are Pakistan and Indonesia, even though they aren't Arab nations.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
Have you seen what's going on in Mexico right now?
I missed this post, and yeah; the drug wars (aka: America's Third War). Last month I was visiting family down in Sonora, and thoughout the day we could hear gun shots, some were in the distance and others were closer. The locals were telling me that they've learned to tune out the sounds, and over time they blend in with the other city sounds; traffic, honking, city-bustle etc. Many of the smaller border towns literally have no cops because the cartels have killed them all. The drug lords are basically running the towns. The state of Sonora is pretty much owned by Los Zetas. Northern Mexico is a No-Man's-Land, and President Calderon is impotent and a joke.
"A draft resolution, backed by Britain, France, Germany and the US, calls for an arms embargo, a travel ban and the freezing of assets in response to the bloodshed. There is also a proposal to refer Col Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity."
oooooo...!!! A proposal!
Originally posted by King Kandy
Which, I hope you understand, does not include Iran.
Ok Iranians are Persian, I´m sure other people have seen 500 as well.
In fact there are numerous tribes in N.Africa so where do we draw the line.
I think the phrase like "previously undemocratic countries containing those rebelling individuals who could be anyone." has to be invented for your sake.
Last night on the News Hour I saw an interview of a Libyan man who was saying that the people of Libya need aid from America and Europe, but not aid as in canned goods and blankets, he meant they needed guns and armaments.
Which just proves that no one ever needs American proxy-military intervention...
...until they need it. america
Originally posted by Omega Vision
Last night on the News Hour I saw an interview of a Libyan man who was saying that the people of Libya need aid from America and Europe, but not aid as in canned goods and blankets, he meant they needed guns and armaments.Which just proves that no one ever needs American proxy-military intervention...
...until they need it. america
A quick short bombing raid on a certain area of Tripoli would solve this mess rather quickly. The problem is the unpredictability of the intervention aftermath.
Don´t forget most of these regimes worked hand in hand with the USA and other western countries, no one was complaining about their dictator like activities then, except for Saddam of course dared mess up the oil flow.