The Slaying Of U.S. Prisoner

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Theres also the factor of the US even getting closer and closer to the Azeris and considering them a strategic ally just like Turkey. Even though Azerbeijan used Al Qaeda in the war against us.

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Hyebruin: Many of the Muslims that cause trouble have a grave misunderstanding of Jihad and who "the infidels" are.

Also, to say Islam is a violent and untame religion is unfair. There are a billion Muslims worldwide and they are not all that way. As a matter of fact those trouble-makers are a minority. It is very easy to take a camera and point it toward a small percentage of a whole group and convince people that it is a representation of the commonality. In addition, remember that people who mind their business do not make the news.

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Oh, Azerbaidjan will DEFINITELY jump on the anti-Iran bandwagon, which we can't really do, considering that Iran has been very friendly to Armenia.

Also, who knows just what the hell can happen with the huge Azeri minority in Iran if a war ever starts there....The effects on Armenia of a potential war on Iran could be...I don't even know...

[hyebruin]

Also, to say Islam is a violent and untame religion is unfair. There are a billion Muslims worldwide and they are not all that way. As a matter of fact those trouble-makers are a minority. It is very easy to take a camera and point it toward a small percentage of a whole group and convince people that it is a representation of the commonality. In addition, remember that people who mind their business do not make the news.

yea yea yea ...they hate christians and jews and whoever that's not 'one of them'..that doesn't spell out "love" for me!!--look at their barbaric ways! sure what the american soldiers did was outrageous and they should be reprimanded and held accountable, but look at THEIR mentality!! they go to the extreme and behead an innocent civilian...as if beating him up and kickin him around wasn't good enuff...you alll who think like this are just too darn 'mainstreamed' and can't fully digest the brutality of that part of the world....so sad really...

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yea yea yea ...they hate christians and jews and whoever that's not 'one of them'..that doesn't spell out "love" for me!!--look at their barbaric ways! sure what the american soldiers did was outrageous and they should be reprimanded and held accountable, but look at THEIR mentality!! they go to the extreme and behead an innocent civilian...as if beating him up and kickin him around wasn't good enuff...you alll who think like this are just too darn 'mainstreamed' and can't fully digest the brutality of that part of the world....so sad really...

First of all, read this: http://forum.armenianclub.com/showpo...81&postcount=6

Now, I need you to realize that you completely ignored what I wrote in my last post and trivialized it with "yea yea yea." Muslims do not hate Christians and Jews. As a matter of fact, I could probably get my very nice Muslim neighbor (who is an engineering professor at UCLA) to tell you that. People can be bad but their religion may not be.

[Anonymouse]

Who cares who hates who, if Iraq is Vietnam, what is the War on Terror? Obviously it is akin to the Cold War, and even Cheney and Bumsfeld have said that this war will and might last generations, even long after the alleged perpetrators of 9-11 are dead. I say alleged perpetrators because in my mind there is no doubt that our own government was responsible for those events.

[patlajan]

Hyebruin: Many of the Muslims that cause trouble have a grave misunderstanding of Jihad and who "the infidels" are.

Also, to say Islam is a violent and untame religion is unfair. There are a billion Muslims worldwide and they are not all that way. As a matter of fact those trouble-makers are a minority. It is very easy to take a camera and point it toward a small percentage of a whole group and convince people that it is a representation of the commonality. In addition, remember that people who mind their business do not make the news.

Well that's a nice statement to calm the flames but lets concider this:
The Isrealises are in gaza and the west bank, the U.S. is in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russians are in Chechnia, the Indians are in Kashmire, and the Chinese have terror problems in the south. Seems to me they don't get along with a whole lot of folk.

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Well that's a nice statement to calm the flames but lets concider this:
The Isrealises are in gaza and the west bank, the U.S. is in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russians are in Chechnia, the Indians are in Kashmire, and the Chinese have terror problems in the south. Seems to me they don't get along with a whole lot of folk.

Or maybe you are too simple minded to see that things are not that simple.

[patlajan]

Or maybe you are too simple minded to see that things are not that simple.

When did I say things were simple? The situations I listed are happening as we speak. It is something to concider. Not to mention the stupid religious clashes in Africa because the muslims tried to impose sharia law causing riots and people killing each other.

And you can't say "things are not that simple" without an explanation.

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Mouse, you usually talk about these conspiracy theories, and I never really took them too seriously, but after seeing Condoleezza Rice's testimony, I'm not too skeptical about the idea that our "government may be responsible for those events".

But I can't think of how or why this would benefit the government or any of the leader groups.