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Of course we are all racist to some degree. Some people seriously think that because they are non-white that they aren't racist, which I find quite funny. Are you some kind of an expert on the subject? Or is this just a "wise sage" observation? Racism may be of varying degrees; the racism...

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Well, the few years that I spent in the UAE, I did not see any racism. I did see a lot of injustice being done to vulnerable sectons of society, which I expected from a rather illiterate people that had suddenly come into new (oil) wealth, knowing fully well that non of the expatriates had any righ...

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Chocs, that guy sounds like a real loser. I feel sorry for his wife and children who potentially need to fear him if they cross over the line of what he thinks is acceptable.

kanelli

Observing my realm? Good grief. :lol:-- Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:47 am -- Oh well talk about comaprison.... Talk to indians about bad driving they will tell you it is VERY good ....... compared to India. Dubai is mosaic of cultures making it harder for anybody to compare rascism , driving, discrimination ...

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eh, I really don't get your point. Moderate and peace-loving Muslims (which are the majority) condemn these kinds of attacks. On Facebook today my Muslim friend in Egypt has a new profile image of a sign about stopping terrorism. Egyptians care about this and don't want a war between Christians and ...

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Niqab - "liberating" for women, and male bank robbers apparently...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12101647

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Zonker, your logic is extremely flawed. A masked person in the street causes suspicion, whereas women walking around with niqab is accepted (though many people feel uncomfortable when they cannot see someone's face). This is exactly why the man used that kind of disguise - because he could circulate...

kanelli

I really hope there will be peace soon. Imagine a world where there is peace between Israel and Palestine and no foreign troops in Afghanistan or Iraq... Iran would have less reason for being so fiesty. We'd just have North Korea to focus on

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Sounds terribly backwards to me! Don't they teach science in schools there? Well tarot card readings , fortune telling , rune stone castings , and astrology all fall in the same category of witchraft (which is occult), that is freely practiced all over the western world Yes, and those are terribly ...

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Peace buddy

kanelli

I'm sorry, I must have missed the part about anyone claiming to be an expert here. It is people giving their OPINIONS based on EXAMPLES from their experience.

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Phonectically, English is a very limited language. Really DDS? How many phonemes in English (and all its dialects) compared to Arabic (and all its dialects)? Also, wouldn't someone's ability to be able to speak another language with accurate pronunciation have more to do with the number of similar ...

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I'm sorry, I must have missed the part about anyone claiming to be an expert here. It is people giving their OPINIONS based on EXAMPLES from their experience. Relax... did you see the quotes around "experts". But you are one of the posters who stated that Dubai or UEA (I forget) is one, i...

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Well, as eh has presented those stanzas, it sounds like the lad was killed because his parents feared insolence and unbelief and they wanted a new child from the Lord who would be more pure and tender. However, eh, you go from stanza 18:74 and jump to 18:80-81. I don't know what was in between - con...

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Ambassador wrote:phonenemenal

Awesome

kanelli

I guess it would have to be the one with the big hairy hands?

kanelli

Well, I imagine tax collectors are never popular

kanelli

I'm not being sensitive, just discussing what you meant. I never interpreted that you were saying that Arabic was more flexible. Some phonemes in Arabic are very tricky for English speakers because there isn't anything like it in English - that's true.

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Really? What factors make a "robust" language - age?

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^^ Well if a language is older , then its influence on other languages would be greater , So the sum total of the total number of words in existence from the roots in all the other languages would be greater than a younger language , Taking into account the total number of literature in existence ,...

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Interesting! However, a person with little concept of these kinds of allegories could pull that stanza as proof that children who commit transgressions or who disbelieve can be killed. I can see the different ways it can be taken and used. Have we got any examples of Muslim religious leaders using t...

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I wasn't aware that anyone regularly wore panty hose, balaclavas, face-covering helmets, paperbags and masks of ex presidents on a daily basis while they circulated in public. What is the reaction by people when they see someone dressed in one of those coming into a bank? Should they feel the same w...

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Send him an email or call him? Visit his workplace or home? Phone his family or others who know him and see if they have seen him lately?

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Let's go eh

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Arabic and Mandarin, two missed opportunities for me - but I'm trying to become more competent in my husband's language so the kids don't start to make fun of me

kanelli

Aren't cross-dressers and trans.e.xuals banned in Muslim countries? Maybe they just aren't recognized under all that cloth!

kanelli

Shaf, you can't win. If a Muslim says that he or she condemns a terrorist attack, the trolls will insist that it is not his or her true feelings - after all, doesn't the Quran say to kill all non-believers!

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Thanks for the advice melika, but I call it as I see it. eh is an Islamophobe troll.

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Melika, people who are looking for an excuse to kill those who don't believe in Islam would pick out this passage. But it says "those who fight you" which is not people just going about their business practicing another faith.

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I can't believe how many couples and families I've seen out together and all or some of the people at the table are playing with their phones.

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