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Keyser Söze

On 1/5/15 8:38 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:46:40 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 1/5/15 3:44 PM, wrote:

I asked for examples, particularly in the last 50 years after the
atheist/agnostic movement became a political force.

You asked for examples of nations we have helped *despite* their having
official or semi-official state religions. Your query was not on how
much the aid we give them costs.

Nations where the Muslim religion is official include:

Afghanistan, Algeria (Sunni), Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros
(Sunni), Egypt, Iran (Shi'a), Iraq, Jordan(Sunni), Kuwait, Libya,
Malaysia (Sunni), Maldives, Mauritania (Sunni), Morocco, Oman, Pakistan
(Sunni), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia (Sunni), Tunisia, United Arab
Emirates, and Yemen.

Have we helped any of those nations?

Helped? maybe none of them. Threw some bribe money? yeah a few of
those,
I am not sure you can call what we are doing in most of them anything
but military adventurism or propping up a military dictator we like.
When any of them have encroached on their neighbors or oppress a
religious minority, we attack them.
You have to say our current Iraq adventure is to insure more religious
tolerance.

Some of your examples like Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt, are just
getting our money as a reward for not attacking Israel or overtly
supporting anyone who does. We orchestrated a coup in Egypt recently,
just because the democratically elected government was "too muslim"
and not Israel friendly enough for us.

In the case of the oil states, we are not giving them a dime. They are
paying us top dollar for military hardware and training. (the classic
50 state jobs program)

If you are going to try to make the false equivalency between the $50
-60 million we give places like the Maldives and Comoros, virtually
all food and medicine to the $6 billion we give israel, mostly arms, I
call bull****

Yeah, I've read your comments about Israel before. Our opinions differ.