Mission accomplished
In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances against the U.S. that Americans “have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims” by purchasing oil from Persian Gulf countries at low prices. The real price of a barrel of oil should be $144, bin Laden demanded.
Ten years ago today, the price of a barrel of oil was just $11. Heading into this holiday weekend, the price of a barrel of oil rested at $144 — a thirteen-fold increase.
On the side we’ve let our governments alienate moderate Muslims, ensure we all live in some kind of fear, and steadily destroy our values and way of life that bin Laden loathes so much. Who’s the useful idiots in this situation?
Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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I take issue with the idea of moderate Muslims and alienating them, you either believe in endtimes that mean the death of all infidals or you don’t.
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Please don’t tell me you’re saying all Muslims in Britain are bloodlusting sleeper agents just waiting for the signal to do the rest of us in.
… but Melanie Phillips says it, so it must be true!
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“you either believe in endtimes that mean the death of all infidals or you don’t.”
Sounds like those “liberal” Christians who don’t believe in the Rapture and the death of all “non-believers”/infidels at the end time.
Is this some roundabout way of making an argument that it’s OK to alienate “moderate” Christians- from the Anglican Communion perhaps? Or maybe those backsliding Christians who don’t believe in bombing the crap out of other countries in an oil resource grab?
Not to mention anyone of any or non belief who objects to the occupation of other peoples land?
I think more clarity is in order Danny boy?
T. Boone Pickens (great name!), one of the richest men in the world and one of the most respected men in the oil industry, recently testified before congress that global oil supply has peaked at approximately 85 million barrels of oil per day.
Given this piece of information, along with the fact that there is nothing (either now, or on the horizon) capable of acting as a substitute, oil prices will continue to rise for the foreseeable future. In view of this, Pickens declared that the coming decade “will see the greatest transfer of wealth in human history” [from the rest of the world, to the oil producing nations].
Interesting times…
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Just to clarify, I take issue with the term moderate when used in relation to any religious person, as I don’t see anything remotely moderate in any of the major religions, or even the minor ones for that matter.
I also want to make it clear that I do not approve of any violation of any ones human rights or dignity on any grounds, this is not about persecution but it is about, in relation to my original comment, the desconstruction of the idea that moderate is a factor in religious belief; unless you’re like my mum and have cut and pasted so much of the bible that it bears no resemblence to the original text but even then it still contains ideas of hell and heaven, or those that are punished and those that are not.
Divisive at best, dangerous and repressive at worst.
Peace.
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