"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Sammy wrote:
Wow, I thought social unrest was impossible under democratic
socialism?

Nah. It's just not moved to a designated "protest zone" where the high
rollin' elite and right wing political candidates don't have to see it.

Don't forget what that old communist, Thomas Jefferson, preached. Every
so often it is healthy for the people to rise up, take control of, and
reform the government. We may be seeing the beginnings of that process
in France, and that should make all the "We-hate-France-because-the
French-didn't-fall-for-the-WMD-propaganda-and-join-the-invasion-of-Iraq"
crowd extremely happy.

It worked really well when the Arabs burned down half of Europe in the
1600s... ****ing idiot!

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.


I'm ready for a history lesson. Half of Europe? Which half?

Maybe he means the Moslem near-conquest of Europe in the 7th Century that
was stopped by the Franks? He surely wasn't referring to the Ottoman
Empire, because those folks were not Arabs. Perhaps he studied a parallel
universe history?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Mustafa

Arab:

a.. A member of a Semitic people inhabiting Arabia, whose language and
Islamic religion spread widely throughout the Middle East and northern
Africa from the seventh century.
a.. A member of an Arabic-speaking people


Mustafa was practicing Islam. Turks were considered Arabs. They followed the
sharia which is the canonical muslim law.