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I dare say that the Germans thought the same of themselves in 1933.
There is much to be feared from an efficient propoganda machine like the major networks.
You don't believe that, look at how firearms owners and Christians, to name but two are reviled in the media. It has had the effect of making a t-shirt with a gun on it a disciplinary violation.
I am familiar with Saudi culture, have Saudi friends, and sponsored Saudis at schools before. I daresay I understand them reasonably well, for a Westerner.
This entire anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Western attitude is a violation of Mohammed's teachings, and Wahabbism/Jihadism has been supported or ignored by the moderates in the Moslem world for far too long.
The Saudis have been looking the other way and ignoring the problems with terrorists in their country in a bargain with the Devil, and now they are paying for it.
Most recently, in the attack on the housing complex where they singled out only non-Muslims, the Saudi security forces let the terrorists go, and the local media downplayed the significance of it, since the victims were not Moslem. How does this play with "In Saudi culture, killing an invited guest in one's house (in this case country) is a serious insult to be met with death."
Didn't look like it to me.
In response to your analogy, I don't see Americans hiding kidnappers and killers in their midst in the name of Jesus to the point where 1200 people have to have their doors kicked in.
Far more than 1200 doors are kicked in every day in this country searching for largely victimless criminals. Does that disturb you?
No monopoly on morality here. I am sure that the kidnapping and murder of a Saudi guest here would merit the same response. The kidnapping and killing of a group of Moslems in the U.S. would cause far more consternation and outrage in this country and abroad than the murder of the same number of Christians. We even passed laws to provide special protections to people who are minorities. Good grief, every swinging Richard up to and including the President had to apologize publicly for humiliating a few prisoners in Iraq. Where is the Crown Prince apologizing to us for this treatment of a guest of his?
In response to your analogy, I don't see Americans hiding kidnappers and killers in their midst in the name of Jesus to the point where 1200 people have to have their doors kicked in.
No, Sir, what I expect is evenhandedness and fairness in the coverage and reporting of these events, for the American people to recognize who their friends are and what has been done to us by evil SOBs in the name of a religion, and for those foreign leaders who would be our friends to act swiftly and decisively to treat the killing of an American IAW Islamic law and as a friend should react to the killing of a guest.
We did not bow down to the British press gangs, not the Barbary pirates before. I see no reason to try to appease those who would spill our blood today either. I choose to die on my feet, rather than live on my knees.
Refer to the pictures at the link (or 9/11 pics, or Daniel Pearl, or Nicholas Berg) if you are confused as to who the bad guys in this war are.
Examples of your alliances and pacts allegation?
TR
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