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Talking To Hamas (Instead of Killing People) Makes You a Bigot

April 25th 2008 13:04

Big surprise, Jimmy Carter has now been labelled a 'bigot' by Israel's Ambassador to the UN for (of all things) *gasp* *shock* *horror* talking to Hamas rather than pouring a good three billion into Israels war machine.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.

The diplomat was questioned about problems facing his country during a wide-ranging discussion with reporters lasting more than an hour. The briefing was sponsored by The Israel Project, a Washington-based, media-oriented advocacy group.

The ambassador's harsh words for Carter came days after the ex-president met with Mashaal for seven hours in Damascus to negotiate a cease-fire with Gaza's Hamas rulers. Carter then called Mashaal on Monday to try to get him to agree to a one-month truce without conditions, but the Hamas leader rejected the idea.

Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot'

I think if people talked more like Jimmy Carter and less like our lovely Israeli Ambassador to the UN the world would be a lot more peaceful.

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Lack of Religion May Result in Higher Suicide Rates

April 7th 2008 11:47

Before anyone takes those words out of context let me just say this is just an unproven theory and that this may be coincedence rather than causality.

Does anyone notice how high the suicide rates are in countries like Norway, Australia, France and Germany? Some of the most 'livable' cities in the world with the highest literacy rates and best healthcare, not to mention they provide some of the best opportunities and jobs yet they lack in terms of spirituality and religion.

The countries I mentioned above have suicide rates of between 20 and 35 per 100,000 people while a country like Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan has just between 0.1 to 0.3 per 100,000. You would think it would be the equal and opposite, surely the more developed the nation the more willing people would be to live, yet perhaps we forget the key aspect of spirituality and religion, something the countries with higher suicide rates tend to lack.

You might argue this has something to do with a developed nation and that it creates people who are more likely to kill themselves, yet Israel, which was founded on the concept of religious right, has a suicide rate of about 10 per 100,000 which is one third of other similarly developed countries which can go as high as thirty five percent.

Another thing to note is countries like Lithuania are second world but have a suicide rate of 75.6 per 100,000, its population is comprised of 10% athiests. Surely if we were to argue 'the better developed a nation the more likely it would create suicidal citizens for reason x rather than lack of religion' then Lithuana would have a considerably less suicide rate. First world countries seem to average 25 per 100,000 while third worlds which have a higher devout religious population can go as low as 0.1 yet a second world with a 10% population of Athiests (which is relatively quite high for any country) has a suicide rate double that of first world countries. Technically it should have a rate lower than first worlds and higher than third worlds. If you do compare it with another second world country such as Georgia which has a higher religious population (10% Muslim, 82% Roman Catholic) we find it has a suicide rate of just 4.8 per 100,000.

To conclude though I have to say that I haven't put much thought into this, it is no more than an interesting observation. I'm absoloutely sure there is more to do with than just religious belief.

*WHO
*Countries of the Second World

*Demographics of religious diversity collected from Wikipedia

*Suicide statistics collected are for the male population only

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Mitt Romney Implies Democracy is Blasphemous

February 23rd 2008 13:02

The west and the middle east are in a clash of ideologies some would say, yet it's really the entire world that is in a clash of ideologies between those who love freedom and those who love their own freedom.

Mitt Romney perfectly demonstrated just why conservatives have gone too far with their own religion so much so that it essentially mirrors that of the Islamic terrorists who will fight us over here if we don't fight them over there.

In his final speach informing everyone that he was dropping out he said that "These Jihadists will battle any form of democracy—to them, democracy is blasphemous for it says that citizens, not God shape the law".

That is a very interesting point however what pushes it into a world of surrealism is how one of the core aspects of his speach was how faith in god creates a strong nation. Americans love god and "Europe is facing a demographic disaster" because it "is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality".

Now I ask, how are you different to the Jihadists who believe it is blasphemous to say that "citizens, not god shape the law" when you say so yourself that the reason Europe is in a 'disaster' is because citizens, not god, are shaping the law? In essence you're elaborating on how god would shape the law in a country, through the people.

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