On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Jeff Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrd1415@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrd1415@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>> It just amazes me that people, even people on this list, continue to make lame excuses for these murderous nincompoops.<br>
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</div>> US murders and murders by proxy: [various statistics of dubious quality]</blockquote><div><br>I'd challenge all those figures but there just doesn't seem to be any point. Perhaps you're correct and you've found the reason Muslims are morons, perhaps you're incorrect and there are other reasons that Muslims are morons, perhaps there was a random quantum fluctuation and Muslims are morons for no reason at all, but none or that would change the fact that worldwide homicidal riots over a cartoon or a fourth rate YouTube video is moronic. </div>
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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values<br>
or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized<br>
violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."<br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div> </div>
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- Samuel P. Huntington<br></blockquote><div><br>"in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."<br>
<br> - Orson Welles<br><br>John K Clark<br><br><br><br> </div><div><br></div></div>