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They're doing something, or trying to do something at DV. Sometimes my posts get through, sometimes they don't. They could be using timers or limits on the number of posts, but whatever it is, it seems uneven.
 
 For example, I've got some kind of block on me, but other people are just posting away with all kinds of things that are just as bad as what I wrote over there. Neither my user names or the IP seems to be banned. Other trollish types have sort of disappeared as well, but others remain. They don't seem to have a method, but I never expected them to anyway.
 
 The difference here is that you know what you're dealing with, and you have moderators who don't make it worthwhile for a troll.
 
 I'm a text troll, not a tech troll. In otherwords, I'm not interested in messing with the forum itself, but I have thrown many bombs in what I say. As you can see, I have promised to behave here.
 
 
   

I made a promise. I'm going to keep it. But this thread is asking for it.
 
   

  soapbox wrote:
 [div style="font-style: italic;"]be patient the emergence and respect for a secular court system separate and distinct from government will emerge.[/div]   [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div]   [div style="font-style: italic;"]not at the end of a gun barrell during immediate fighting,but the process after the fighting.[/div]    
 
 The biggest mistake people make (especially Westerners these days) is the assumption that others, given the opportunity, will think and act like you do. Most of us in our society cannot conceive of a holy war, so we assume that no one else could possibly be serious about it.
 
 This is how civilizations fall; on the assumption that deep down, your enemy is like you. True, he may be human, he may have loves and wants and a need for some mean line of status quo. But he has a completely different way of looking at the world that is not going to go away any more than will the way you look at it. Failing to recognize and understand that inevitably results in big problems.
 
 The idiocy of the American approach to foreign policy is that they assume that everyone really wants to be like them. It doesn't take a genius to sort out how very naïve that is.
 
 It was stupid to give natives paper money 400 years ago; it's just as stupid to think you can give people democracy and have them assign value to it. Especially when you haven't mastered it yourselves.
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 The case is believed to be the first of its kind in Afghanistan and highlights a struggle between religious conservatives and reformists over what shape Islam should take there four years after the ouster of the fundamentalist Taliban regime.
 
 The ignorance in the media about this case is mind-boggling. Everyone is acting as if this is some new, strange anomaly.
 
 Any perfunctory study of Islam and Islamic history will tell you that there is no way that this is the first case of its kind in Afghanistan. This law goes back to the beginning of the faith, and is found in the most authoritative commentary on Islamic belief.
 
 The man has two choices, either he is insane (because only a crazy person would fail to submit to Allah, right?), or he is a murtad, a willing apostate considered to be worse than an infidel. Anyone who kills a murtad may not be prosecuted under Islamic law. If he is insane, however, he gets a pass on the death sentence and simply gets put away in an asylum.
 
 The only leniency shown here so far is that this whole thing is supposed to happen within 72 hours. (the time from announcing your apostasy to the deadline for you to reconsider before being executed or put away).
 
 I cannot recommend enough that people read Ibn Warraq. Our ignorance about Islam is far more dangerous to our societies than the actions of militant Muslims.
 
 The clash of civilizations is inevitable. Be ready or we lose.  

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 tenkani wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Trollio, make a profile so I can give you some karma love     [/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]Have you ever gotten a hot oil massage from a nun?[/div]
 
 As you can see, it is done.