Re: Larry Niven: Terrorize Latinos to Solve Health Care Crisis

On Sun, 4 May 2008 17:04:01 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On May 4, 11:28 am, Gene <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> It would be classed as fantasy except for the fact that it
>> actually happened. But both make my point, which is the
>> unimaginative diagnosis of schizophrenia when someone reports
>> hallucinations doesn't always fit the facts.

>No, Muhammad *should* have been placed in a padded cell instead of
>being listened to.

>The spread of Islam caused untold human misery, whether to the Jews
>that lived in Arabia, the people of Afghanistan (forcibly converted to
>Islam from Buddhism), the Christians of the Balkans (forced to give up
>their firstborn sons to become Janissaries) - 

Well, obviously not untold, on account of you're telling us all about
it.  But why are you telling us about such relatively small and peripheral
groups?  What about the untold human misery visited upon the Arabs, the
Berbers, the Persians, the Turks, and so forth?  Clearly, the spread of
Islam plunged all these people into a Dark Age of...

....wait a minute, the Dark Age of the seventh and eighth centuries was
one continent over.  The miserable Arabs, etc, seem to have skipped that
part.  Never Mind.


Now, if you want to talk about the persistence of Islam v1.0 well past 
its best-by date, that's another matter.


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