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Ambassador: Bush didn't know there were two sects of Islam

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by tigermission1, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. giddyup

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    If they had a penchant for killing each other I bet you could tell them apart...
     
  2. robbie380

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    lol i just realized i spelled snow last night and not naive. i knew it looked funny but i just kept on going. anyhow...


    what i mean to say is that the logic isn't there if you want to say an article like this sheds light on why we don't have contingency planning in iraq. just because bush may or may not have known a damn thing about islam doesn't mean that EVERYONE else in his admin or close to him in his admin didn't know anything about islam.
     
  3. Willis25

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    Isn't that very similar to catholism just more of a geo-cultural split - I believe that Eastern Orthodox are allowed communion in a catholic church -
     
  4. Deckard

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    No, Sisihir, I didn't. There are two main branches of Christianity, the two I mentioned. Short of listing a host of others, including Greek Orthodox, which contains a significantly fewer numbers of adherents, in comparison to the two I mentioned, I decided to stick to what would be comparable to the two main branches of Islam. I may be agnostic, but history is a passion of mine, as is travel, which has brought me into contact with people of all sorts of religions, as well as visiting many of their most holy places in the process... something endlessly fascinating.

    So there! ;)



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  5. ima_drummer2k

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    Nope, not saying that at all. I'm just saying I take things like this with a huge grain of salt when there's books to be sold and money to be made by the person making the accusation.

    The more outragous things you say in a book, the more books you sell. See Ann Coulter.
     
  6. tinman

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    what about the 'nation'? with farakan?
    what sect is that.
     
  7. thacabbage

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    What a preposterous statement and what a silly little man you are. I guess nothing has gone on in Ireland in the last few hundred years.
     
  8. thacabbage

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    It's not considered within the fold of Islam.
     
  9. ubigred

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    shame shame shame....what the hell is wrong with him? Bush is one of the worst presidents ever!!!!
     
  10. giddyup

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    It's called "irony."

    Oh yeah, I forgot.... relax your vigilance for name-calling and insulting people. You and I have a history in this regard.
     
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  11. rimrocker

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    As King Cheetah implied. there aren't "branches" of Christianity... There's only those that worship the True God.

    [​IMG]
     
  12. tigermission1

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    The Nation of Islam, the 5%ers, and others are considered cults. They are not considered 'branches' or 'sects'. They are uniquely American...
     
  13. Deckard

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    I forgot!! :D



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  14. thacabbage

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    Relax your vigilance for taking cheap underhanded shots at other religions in your attempts to prove Christianity's superiority and we won't have this problem.

    Not sure what was "ironic" about your statement.
     
  15. Saint Louis

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    Is that the Rapture? Dang I didn't get a ticket.
     
  16. giddyup

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    Please don't impute my motives. The facts are as the facts are.

    Can you name two sects of Christianity who have as lengthy and continuous and extensive a history of violence towards one another?
     
  17. Deckard

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    Hundreds of years of infighting and persecution amongst Christians?



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  18. thacabbage

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    lol this is a joke, right?

    You do realize that the shi'ite/sunni discord didn't reach such levels until recent modern history, right? The opposing shi'ite/sunni caliphate dynasties never really took up arms against each other as it was more of a Cold War during the times that any two were even both at their peaks.

    Christians have a history of in-fighting and persecution and that you are denying this is completely laughable. However, unlike you, it's not my style to try to show the superiority of one religion over any other. I'm just here to clean up after the garbage you usually spew when driven by your obsessed agenda.
     
  19. GreenVegan76

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    Guys, I think you guys are missing the point: Bush is a chest-slapping r****d.
     
  20. tinman

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    sweet, i want to start my own now. worship me! i'm the greatest!
     

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