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Originally posted by omegafire
reply to post by LostPassword
Name one Islamic Country that has peace, freedom, and equality for all. Otherwise your wasting your time, your friends should cut you off. Every islamic country is a cespool of evil.
Again name one that has all three..... peace, freedom for all (including being able to practice your own religion freely), ad equality for all, you can't. Also, name an islamic country that let's it's citizens criticise their leader's without fear or retribution? You can't because islam is evil, and opresses all who oppose. Thank you for understanding now.edit on 18-11-2012 by omegafire because: (no reason given)edit on 18-11-2012 by omegafire because: (no reason given)edit on 18-11-2012 by omegafire because: (no reason given)
In the 16th and 17th centuries Portugal and Spain were the main global powers. In the 18th century Britain emerged as the dominant world power followed in France and the Netherlands. By the 19th century the world was divided up by the European powers. Britain and France and to a lesser extent Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands (and Japan too in some places) ruled their separate “spheres influence” so they wouldn’t have to challenge one another.
The British prime minister, Lord Salisbury, commented at an Anglo-French convention in 1890: "we have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man's foot has ever trod; we have been giving away mountains and rivers and lakes to each other, only hindered by the small impediment that we never knew exactly where the mountains and rivers and lakes were."
The current borders of the Middle Eastern nations were established by Britain and to a lesser France. Most of the borders were drawn up in 1922 by a British civil servant whose primary goal was to map out the Middle East to accommodate British military and administrative institutions. T.E. Lawrence later boasted that he, Churchill and handful of others mapped out the modern nations of the Middle East over dinner.
To protect Iraq from attacks by Ibn Saud, the leader of Saudi Arabia, Iraq was granted land claimed by Ibn Saud—all the land west of the Euphrates River to the Syrian frontier. To appease Ibn Saud, the British transferred the rights to two thirds of the territory of Kuwait, which had been virtually independent for two centuries. This land contained valuable grazing lands and oil. These were the borders that Saddam Hussein claimed were invalid when he invaded Kuwait in 1990.
The borders of the Middle East were drawn up based on British and French interests and ignored local history and traditions. Many of the problems that have subsequently arisen in Iraq, Kuwait, Israel and Palestine can be traced back to how the borders were drawn and the land was partitioned. The French drew a new border for Lebanon and Syria that paved the way for problems and civil war in the 1970s and 80s.
Originally posted by omegafire
reply to post by LostPassword
Name one Islamic Country that has peace, freedom, and equality for all. Otherwise your wasting your time, your friends should cut you off. Every islamic country is a cespool of evil.
Again name one that has all three..... peace, freedom for all (including being able to practice your own religion freely), ad equality for all, you can't. Also, name an islamic country that let's it's citizens criticise their leader's without fear or retribution? You can't because islam is evil, and opresses all who oppose. Thank you for understanding now.edit on 18-11-2012 by omegafire because: (no reason given)edit on 18-11-2012 by omegafire because: (no reason given)edit on 18-11-2012 by omegafire because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by xavi1000
Good for your friends , i dont want to have you on my friends list.
First of all lay the blame at the right feet.
Name one Western country that does...A country where discrimination is none existent and the police do not abuse their authority? A country where all religions are accepted...
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by Stormdancer777
First of all lay the blame at the right feet.
You have spotted the root of the problem. None of the states in the Levant have any legitimacy beyond that given to them by European powers. Rather than admit that they are all illegitimate and hold a conference to draw more equitable borders, the leaders of these arbitrarily created states have singled out one as being the most illegitimate, and use its continued existence to justify retaining their own power. It's a lose-lose situation.
Originally posted by omegafire
I dont understand why you would do that? Israel is stopping muslims, it's part of a muslims nature do expand, destroy, and conquer evreyone who does not bow down to islam. I'm Chrisitian, if I must be ruled by someone I rather it be a jew then a muslim who beheads and rapes people for being another religion.