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racheljtmMar 28, 2011
Really interesting article...I agree with the title, just that I feel it's easier said than done especially coming from the West
smurfzMar 28, 2011
They need more entrepreneurs and less spammers!
buryshaneMar 29, 2011
yes and also need to avoid spammers.
agmlauncherMar 29, 2011
That would require less religious devotion and more intellectualism, which leads to all kinds of nasty things like women's rights, gay rights, belief in evolution, and secular government.
Good luck trying to get 1 billion religious wing nuts on board with that idea....
the_Truth_Mar 29, 2011
agm, this isn't the first posting of yours I've replied to and both were regarding the middle east where you blamed Palestinians for getting attacked (on their own land).
This time, you kind of defeated yourself. You say that one of the keys to success in the middle east would be intellectualism, yet 1 sentence later you insult/stereotype the '1 billion religious wing nuts'.
Sounds like you need to take your own advice.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
mrteflonMar 29, 2011
LOL this from the 3 day old Troll with 4 posts!
Closed AccountMar 29, 2011
belief in the fact of evolution, fixed
hkirkhMar 29, 2011
It will take many time and will demand of refusal of traditions. Not all people will want it.
neotechniMar 29, 2011
agreed
phrawghMar 29, 2011
Friendly to new ideas? That's a head choppin'.
Closed AccountMar 29, 2011
Capitalism creates peace
Closed AccountMar 29, 2011
islam creates morons
neotechniMar 29, 2011
agreed
though islam creates violent suicidal morons, all religions creates morons
Closed AccountMar 29, 2011
the funny thing about attacking islam on digg is it is somehow considered not cool. but attacking every other religion is okay. especially Zoroastrianism. That zarathustra **** sucks btw.
countess666Mar 29, 2011
"the funny thing about attacking islam on digg is it is somehow considered not cool. but attacking every other religion is okay. "
you got it wrong, attacking ALL religions is cool, singeling one out is not.
except when its the one constantly being rubbed in your face(which is Christianity for most of us here)Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountMar 29, 2011
bulls**t. you can say christianity sucks ass any day of the week and automatically get 3 diggs. btw you need to bitchslap some of your errant neurons into submission because in fact - I already trashed Zoroastrianism too. fortunately digg has no Zoroastrian Zealots.
countess666Mar 29, 2011
most of the christian bashing is based on fact thou, most of the Muslim bashing is based on prejudges ignorance and exaggeration.
countess666Mar 29, 2011
most of the christian bashing is based on fact thou, most of the Muslim bashing is based on prejudges ignorance and exaggeration.
Closed AccountMar 29, 2011
tell it to richard dawkins you double standard supporting douchebag. LOL christian suicide bombers are a motherf**ker.
neotechniMar 29, 2011
"most of the Muslim bashing is based on prejudges ignorance and exaggeration."
According to the US counter terrorism website,they are responsible for more terrorist attacks than all other religions combined. There have been 2 instances where muslims forced little girls back into a burning school cause they werent wearing hijabs.
Its not ignorance. Its fact.
http://sandgetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/2009/06/school-girls-trapped-in-burning.html
Saudi Arabia is still the same place where religious conservatives allowed 15 young girls to burn to death rather than let them evacuate their school uncovered.
The event, which was supposed to have changed the way things were done here in Kingdom, took place on March 15, 2002.
At the time, there as an international outcry that the Hai’a would prevent schoolgirls from leaving a burning building. That they would sacrifice these young lives in favor of some ridiculous cultural dress code. The tragedy got a lot of press, and there were promises made that it would never happen again.
Well it did.
This past week another fire erupted in another girls school – this one in Khamis Mushayt.
Thankfully – luckily, no one was killed – although six girls were hospitalized and another 21 injured – when the school’s guard prevented them from leaving the burning building.
Prevented as in picking up a stick and making sure the girls didn’t come out into the safety of the street
http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/death-for-refusal-of-burka-and/
The murder of 16-year-old Canadian teen, Aqsa Parvez, by her Pakistani immigrant father for her refusal to wear a burka or hijab has shocked and saddened the nation.
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/03/norway-muslim-girls-beaten-for-not.html
Muslim girls who don't wear the hijab all the time are beaten, says Gerd Fleischer, of Self-Help for Immigrants and Refugees (Seif).
"In my office, women cried brave tears over having to go with a hijab. Countless young women despairingly told me that they don't have the hijab on all the time, they'll get a beating."
"Parents often beat their daughters into obedience and virtue and the hijab as a rule constitutes part of the control," says Fleischer.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/28/why-penn-and-teller.html
Are there any groups you won't go after?
We haven't tackled Scientology because Showtime doesn't want us to. Maybe they have deals with individual Scientologists —- I'm not sure. And we haven't tackled Islam because we have families.
Meaning, you won’t attack Islam because you’re afraid it’ll attack back ...
Right, and I think the worst thing you can say about a group in a free society is that you’re afraid to talk about it—I can’t think of anything more horrific. [...]
You do go after Christians, though ...
Teller and I have been brutal to Christians, and their response shows that they’re good f**king Americans who believe in freedom of speech. We attack them all the time, and we still get letters that say, “We appreciate your passion. Sincerely yours, in Christ.” Christians come to our show at the Rio and give us Bibles all the time. They’re incredibly kind to us. Sure, there are a couple of them who live in garages, give themselves titles and send out death threats to me and Bill Maher and Trey Parker. But the vast majority are polite, open-minded people, and I respect them for that.
From the quran, tell me how this is a religion of peace
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Quran-Hate.htm
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. (9:29 Jizya is the money that non-Muslims must pay to their Muslim overlords in a pure Islamic state.)
Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures.
Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve, then they would not believe
Verse 7:176 compares unbelievers to "panting dogs" with regard to their idiocy and worthlessness. Verse 7:179 says they are like "cattle" only worse
Verses 46:29-35 even say that unbelieving men are worse than demons who believe in Muhammad.
O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers:
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk
O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse
The Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his own Lord!
O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty. (9:123)
Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies and others besides, whom ye may not know (8:60)
Strive hard (Jihad) against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed
Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them." This because they contended against Allah and His Messenger: If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in punishment.
countess666Mar 30, 2011
i never said it didn't happen
most of the Muslim bashing however is based on a belief that the above applies to all Muslims. which can only be described as ignorance.
dan6963Mar 29, 2011
They can start by making a new suicide bomber jacket design. That is probably where the most unrealized profits currently lie.
nice_doggyMar 29, 2011
Really good article and totally on the mark with where not only the middle east but other developing countries should certainly think about going from here. Venture capitalism is important, but a lack of it currently in the Middle East may not dictate what the future has to hold, the sudden swift call for democracy and more freedom in a region having been content with dictatorship for some time is demonstration of that. Entrepreneurship will not be far behind, and neither will the jobs for that matter....its what a free society is all about.
rrwestMar 30, 2011
What the Middle East needs is a predominant ideology that values exercising one's freedom of conscience. The Barbary pirates of th 16th to 19th centuries certainly had the entrepreneurial spirit when they went on their raiding and slave-gathering missions. And they had one thing in common; that same ideology.
The idea that democracy and capitalism are by-products of each other forgets that during the 20th century, there were at least two governments that had capitalism but not democracy: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
MasterBizCoach12Apr 20, 2012
Sounds good especially when you want to invest in there, but there are some laws to be followed when you are putting a business in there. And if investors are interested, They should abide all the laws in there.