Comments on: Ruby-Sachs: Muslim leaders convicted in Dallas

By: Baroque_in_LA

Baroque_in_LA — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:02:15 +0000

@John in CA: Absolutely! Don’t worry- the way we’re heading they’ll all blow us up soon enough while in the process of attempting to destroy each other.

By: Baroque_in_LA

Baroque_in_LA — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:57:21 +0000

Trace, are you sure you want to go there? There are the little problems of Qibya and the like and UN Resolution 242.
It’s awfully hard for either side to play the victim at this point. Although the Palestinians don’t have billions of dollars in U.S. aid and arms getting supplied to them. Maybe if Israel would stop putting settlements illegally on Arab land the violence would lessen or stop? It would at least gain Israel some PR brownie points from people who read up on the issues from sources other than Fox News (like Ha’aretz).

@Stank: I really hope you read more Gandhi.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:36:12 +0000

As bad as Christians are to gay people, Muslims are far worse. Just look at the two gay teens hung in Iran, with gays routinely beaten in Saudi Arabia, etc. Israel is the *only* country in the entire Middle East where gay people have any rights whatsoever, and we as a community should support them.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:20:41 +0000

Was this written by an LGBT person. Does she realize how LGBT people are treated by Hamas, the Palestinian authority, and Islam in general. Wake up!

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:06:22 +0000

The Palestinian people are their worst enemy in my opinion. Their entire situation has been exacerbated by their extremely high birth rates which only ensure a deeping poverty from one generation to the next. Until they implement strict family planning I have limited sympathy for their lack of supplies.

Moreover, I agree with other posters that the plight of a religion-driven, homophobic, misogynistic society is low on my list of sympathies.

By: truthsayer

truthsayer — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:57:12 +0000

A gay party with TONS of GAY arabs?!? Geeeesh, which planet was this on?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:44:36 +0000

I have no sympathy for a religion or religious people that behead people for being gay.

By: John in CA

John in CA — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:04:19 +0000

First line typo there. It should say “give any side”

By: John in CA

John in CA — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:56:20 +0000

I’m not going to any side a “pass” in the Middle East. And that includes the Christians who think Americans have a divine duty to bring Jesus to Iraq. These religions – Christianity, Islam, and Judaism – are equally lousy. And the more aggressive they try to push their viewpoint through violence, the more I’m convinced they’re worthless and morally bankrupted belief systems.

Muslims, Jews, and Christians all suffer from the same ridiculous “martyrdom” complex. Perhaps it has something to do with the antagonism between them and the (Greco-Roman, Egyptian etc.) polytheistic faiths they replaced. But all three of these religions love playing the victim. They get some perverse delight out of pretending to be persecuted. And even as they’re pillaging each other’s villages over some obscure textual interpretation of what a homophobic, racist, misogynistic desert “God” actually wants, they want everyone to pity them. It is twisted and absurd.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:08:58 +0000

Israel is the only state of the world which grants foreigners with no particular genetic ties to the region, full citizenship rights(and effective property rights to 93% of the land it occupies) based solely on their mother’s religion, at the detriment of natives. This is unacceptable by any human standard of justice.