re: dave r out to goad australians
I don't justify anyone working against a nation -and if the truth be known, more anglos would be working against Oz than mslims. To pick a pretty sick little bunch of morons (as portrayed in a discredited TV show, aimed at just that sort of result) and extrapolate that that is the whole sum of mslims is an intellectually bereft exercise. There are other mslims. Many more of them, whose disposition towards the rest of the -what? are we all the rest of us, "westerners?- is constantly in jeopardy, if constantly they are put under the microscope and examined till their dignity is totally destroyed. That's the mslim -or any other cultural background you care to mention- who will get a bit angry and perhaps lose it enough for our TV channels to make their program "popular."
Describing what the Crusaders did as something being back in the dim old history is a vacuous excuse. The Crusades show us just how close man is to insanity when religion (that which MUST be obeyed) enters the stage. The belief out of which those Crusades sprung is still very much alive and well and nurtured everywhere on Earth in a huge way. No need for you to think about that one too long, I am sure.
I don't know how much you know about the Arab countries and their wealth but it seems you know very little. Begin by thinking about what happens when a nation is conquered, demolished, its schools closed down and what schools are left, are operating with a specific agenda. Then follow the history of ALL the arabic lands, and, if you wish, place them in apposition with the mslim faith.
Just sp itting at a population does not make that population very friendly. You may not care because your ba lls have not been brought near a torch and you think you're a part of a majority that would protect you from that happening but you do need to think not with your ba lls but with your brains.
Bush is doing that but he's not using his own ba lls.
