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coo-cooo ;D
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Beck was right in this clip. Clapper is a complete idiot.
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West Cannot Understand Risk of 'Islamization,' Iraqi Archbishop Warns
Catholic News Agency ^ | 2/11/11
Kirkuk, Iraq, Feb 11, 2011 / 01:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The secular western world is incapable of fully understanding the threat of a “reawakening of Islam” in the Middle East, according to an Iraqi bishop beset by radical movements in his own archdiocese.
In an interview with the Italian bishops' SIR news agency, Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq, called the Middle East a “scary volcano” because of the possible consequences of widespread unrest.
“There are Islamic forces and movements that wish to change the Middle East, creating Islamic States, caliphates, in which Shariah (law) rules,” he warned.
Radical groups present in Iraq such as al-Qaida and Ansar al Islam are calling on citizens in other Middle Eastern nations to inject an Islamic influence into otherwise general protests in places like Tunisia and Egypt.
For Archbishop Sako these calls have “the clear intention of fueling ... a total religious change” in the area.
“They are voices that could find fertile ground in Egypt and elsewhere and therefore should not be underestimated, also because there are regional powers whose leaders have defined these revolts as the 'reawakening of Islam',” he said.
In practice, the goal of these fundamentalists is “to create a void to be able to fill it with religious themes, convinced ... that Islam is the solution to everything.”
In Egypt, protesters insist that the widespread protests are not driven by religion or ethnicity, but rather a universal grievance against extremely poor social and political conditions.
Some fear, however, that organized Islamic associations such as the Muslim Brotherhood are in an optimal position to take advantage of the confusion for political benefit.
Because unrest could be manipulated by fundamentalist opportunists, Archbishop Sako called the Middle East “a scary volcano.”
Should Egypt becoming an Islamic state, he said, it would be “a problem for all” and have “undeniable, negative aftershocks for Christian minorities.”
According to the archbishop, Europe and North America are blind to the possibility of such an “Islamization” of the Middle East.
“The western mentality does not allow it to fully comprehend this risk,” he said.
He explained that politics and religion are interwoven in the Middle East, whereas there is “a tremendous void” between them in western nations.
This results in two extremisms, he said. The Middle Eastern mentality is dominated by Islam, while a secularism that denies its Christian roots and relegates Christian values to the private sphere reigns in the West.
Although “material violence” does not appear in the West, the general privatization of Christianity is “against democracy,” he said. “In the East, however, it is the opposite: religion pervades all.”
He called the future of the Middle East “unknown and scary” and said the international community is “incapable of moving” in reaction to the recent turn of events.
Iraqi Christians – plagued by violence and a lack of security – look to the Egyptian crisis with “sadness,” he told SIR news. They are afraid that the North African nation might fall into the same ethnic and religious division.
Archbishop Sako's own archdiocese has been struck hard by extremist violence. Nine Christians have died and another 104 have been injured in Kirkuk.
The fear the survivors have about Egypt, said the Church leader, is that it will become “a new Iraq.”
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Now they're worried about an Islamic caliphate? It's been in the works for quite some time, I'd say.
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Beck was right in this clip. Clapper is a complete idiot.
but does he absolutely have to sound like a complete fucking lunitic saying it? Don't tell me it's part of his act, everyone else that acts crazy gets labled crazy.
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I love how he stops from being freaked out and then says "More in a minute" in a totally professional voice when the commercial comes on ind the end of the clip :D
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He's a crazy guy, but that does not make him wrong.
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I dont think his that nuts listen to his voice when they go to commercial. Its an act, some off it atleast he knows what he is doing.
His rhetoric is off of course nuts but if you see past that he has some valid points here
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I dont think his that nuts listen to his voice when they go to commercial. Its an act, some off it atleast he knows what he is doing.
His rhetoric is off of course nuts but if you see past that he has some valid points here
I like the part above where I say, "don't tell me it's part of his act" and then you post it's an act lol...
I'd like to really know how this act came about. did it go something like this?
Glenn: How am I going to get across to people so that they really listen to me?
Producer: You could act like you're completely nuts and totally insane. Nobody gives anybody insane any credibility but I have a feeling it will work out for you.
Glenn: Super fantastic, lets do it, I'll act completely insane and people will totally listen to me. That's a great idea!!!!
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I have no idea :)
But the way his voice switches from mad, to cool and professional when they need to go to commercial says to me its somewhat of an act.
It might also be he has just done the show so many times that hes used to switch off/on when there is a break in the show
But he must have some appeal othervise he would not have a show
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I have no idea :)
But the way his voice switches from mad, to cool and professional when they need to go to commercial says to me its somewhat of an act.
It might also be he has just done the show so many times that hes used to switch off/on when there is a break in the show
But he must have some appeal othervise he would not have a show
So if you're crazy you can't stop for a second and sound normal?
O'really :D He sounds normal... is he? lol...
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So if you're crazy you can't stop for a second and sound normal?
O'really :D He sounds normal... is he? lol...
Ha ha ha ha - send this clip to all the far leftists who blames palin and beck and rush for Loughner. lol.
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I do like some of the stuff Glenn says, but I don't like the crazy lunitic thing.
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Ha ha ha ha - send this clip to all the far leftists who blames palin and beck and rush for Loughner. lol.
you aleady saw me post against the lefties who blamed Palin and Beck for Loughner so why would I need to do that?
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I'm still trying to figure out why Beck is so worked up about the French Revolution
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I'm still trying to figure out why Beck is so worked up about the French Revolution
He often says that there are different outcomes when there is a revolution, one like ours where we oust the king, and one like the French, where they chop heads off.
He often says if we are not careful, we could end up more like the french one than we did the 1776 one.
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I do like some of the stuff Glenn says, but I don't like the crazy lunitic thing.
He's right on a lot of things. Didn't he have some health issues recently? I'm guessing whatever meds he's on have him a little high strung. Religion is playing too big a part on his show in the last year as well.
And it is funny when he'll go from screaming to "we'll be right back" in cool, collected voice.
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He's right on a lot of things. Didn't he have some health issues recently? I'm guessing whatever meds he's on have him a little high strung. Religion is playing too big a part on his show in the last year as well.
And it is funny when he'll go from screaming to "we'll be right back" in cool, collected voice.
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He often says that there are different outcomes when there is a revolution, one like ours where we oust the king, and one like the French, where they chop heads off.
He often says if we are not careful, we could end up more like the french one than we did the 1776 one.
just because Beck is worried about it doesn't make any difference to me
I'm not losing any sleep over it and I certainly don't see why I should care if King Louis XVI was convicted of treason and sentenced to death.
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Don't tell anybody I said this, but the French version does kinda sound better :D
especially if we had a revolution against the bankers and corporations...
Come on, I know some of you fuckers out there would like to see heads roll lol...
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Don't tell anybody I said this, but the French version does kinda sound better :D
especially if we had a revolution against the bankers and corporations...
Come on, I know some of you fuckers out there would like to see heads roll lol...
I'd be satisfied if they were put in jail and personally bankrupted
we can start with this scumbag
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Geither, Paulson, Sommers, Bernake, Dimon, Blankfein, Rubin, Greenspan, and a bunch of others would not have me all that upset.