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I'm loving the game of 'guess the contents the previous post based on the reply' - I'm sure the real posts are less witty than the one's I'm imagining. I think I'm starting to understand the 'bitter bhais' of this world now - ignoring the facts and evidence does make for a more interesting point of ...

shafique

Shocking news - yes it is pretty much the main news here too. Looks like a robbery gone badly wrong - and not a crime we hear a lot of, i.e. robberies in hotels aren't that common to my knowledge. The hotel industry is a big part of the economony and the staff are usually very friendly (we get good ...

shafique

LOL very creative,

. I do hope that the person you're cheerleading understands the analogies - she prefers plain speaking, dontyaknow?

Not as creative as this though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKHc-U2FNHk

da da daaa da da da

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

LOL Typically, the collective American psyche will initially trivialize the event by calling the perpetrator “deranged” or “mentally unstable.” The social response script is fashioned to fake us into a false sense of security. It’s isolated, they say. Just one crazed nut with a gun. That dude who fl...

shafique

:) DDS you shouldn't leave out the mind reading (I know what you are really thinking even though you may write exactly the opposite) and x-ray vision (albeit when it comes to discerning the make up of McDonald sandwiches). But the old selective quote tactic never fails to amuse me. For the record BM...

shafique

Darn - they told me it was off-plan and a great investment! LOL

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

Awesome pic - clever frog. I just hope it isn't a modern day version of the scorpion and frog fable - snakes eat frogs, don't they?!

As for the second pic - wow, the daggers are really out for Gillard. Not covered herself in glory, has she?

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

herve, thanks for sharing your belief. However, this thread is about a snippet in a speech by Zahar. I think I've been fair when I say: if anyone does find Zahar's full speech and can show that he does contradict Hamas' official line - let me know. I'll be more than happy to condemn him for divertin...

shafique

Err - my 'one link' as you put it is the official statement by the Hamas minister of information. Let's recall the words of Hamas, which continue to be the only definitive, complete and clear statement on the subject: Hamas' Minister of Information categorically states: But it should be made clear t...

shafique

You're right gertrude. We shouldn't prejudge what the Palestinians living under Israeli Military Occupation will vote if asked 'Do you want to have Israel keep East Jerusalem which it captured in 1967, and also keep the parts of the West Bank it re-named 'East Jerusalem' - or do you want East Jerusa...

shafique

You may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one.. :) But seriously - I don't know - perhaps they will, perhaps they won't - but the thread is not really what I speculate about the future, but more about the EU diplomats proposals. I'd probably put more weight to what they say rather than what ...

shafique

Masterful. He does perform well at these types of engagements - and he seems to have judged the balance of this speech perfectly. "At a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pa...

shafique

^Your 'chart' is funnier!

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

Wow - here's me trying to keep things on topic, sigh. ;) Let's try again. Will anyone produce a full transcript so that we can verify the claim made in the thread title, and confirm whether indeed Zahar has contradicted the clear, categoric statement of Hamas' views of the Holocaust? Cheers, Shafique

shafique

Not much I can add to this comment from Loonwatch.com about this story: There were a spate of terrorist bombings from 2007 until 2009 on mainly Muslim targets that left hundreds of casualties in India, the incidences were quickly blamed on Muslims. Islamophobes at the time jumped on it and were happ...

shafique

Hu was there?

Anyway, good to see what a good education can achieve for the son of an immigrant of 'colour'!

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

:) I try to balance things out by talking about a subject that has nothing to do with Islam/Religion .... the Israeli Military Occupation of Palestine. LOL Actually, you've got a good point. I'm actually thinking of for fun swapping sides once a week - I mean the usual suspects and I all know the vi...

shafique

RC (Red Chief) is quite well versed on the Greek civilisations and philosophy - I'm sure he can spread some light on this. I read that the Ancient Greek alphabet came from the East of the Mediterranean - probably from current day Lebanon. The Sumerians (and perhaps others in the 'East') developed wr...

shafique

Sym - please try and at least be polite. Your last post crossed the line, and was deleted.

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

In a recent thread, there was speculation over whether the majority of Palestinians would favour East Jerusalem as their capital or would vote for Israel to keep control of it. Whilst I think the answer is pretty obvious - it is based on an assumption (I would liken it to assuming that the sun will ...

shafique

From a social perspective - I'm not that hung up on a marriage certificate. What is more important, IMO, is the commitment that a couple have to each other and the joint desire to have a long term relationship and bring up a family (should they decide to have children). This is from a selfish perspe...

shafique

@Shaf :mrgreen: No probs sym. Let me know if anyone does produce the evidence relating to the thread title so we can confirm whether Zahar has indeed contradicted Hamas' clear stance on the subject. Be wary of people changing the subject or trying to justify this by reeling out previous selective q...

shafique

Compromise is the key here. I do believe that the not wanting to compromise is a side effect of a shift to materialism and egoism - moving away from a sense of duty, sacrifice, community etc. We subtly (and not so subtly) conditioned to expect instant gratification and to move on if we don't get it....

shafique

Passion fading over time is a psychological fact - there is a difference between 'falling in love' and 'being in love' - hormones etc are different. Passion within a relationship is there at the beginning of relationships definitely, and the passion and deep love can certainly be maintained througho...

shafique

I didn't know she had been banned. So news to me. I didn't complain about her - but she was laying it on a bit thick recently, she did use the phrase 'dirty stinky paki' or something similar, but was citing as something she would not normally say? Not sure if it was that or some other comment that b...

shafique

^I second the request for clarfication.

Surely you don't mean the English word 'political' (as opposed to any Greek word that this English word was derived from)?

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

Well - Sage has clarified that BM was banned for something not involving others (and BB, you're right - I could have checked the moderator panel, I forgot about that - and I was making the same point you made, that the 'stinky..' comment was not a direct insult - and indeed worse things have been sa...

shafique

LOL. I don't know Greek RC - I can only use the term as it appears in the Oxford English Dictionary and how it is used in this section's title - i.e. 'Politics' talk! Politics in English has a definite meaning. It may or may not be different from how ancient Athenians used the term - as I said, I do...

shafique

RC - perhaps we do live in parallel worlds.

I really don't understand why you expect me to use the English word Politics in a way that is not defined in an English dictionary.

I do believe yours is one of the weirdest I've come across.

Cheers,
Shafique

shafique

^and I was doing it in a positive way, too.

I apologise to RC if he felt I shouldn't have mentioned his name in this context.

Cheers,
Shafique

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