25-Oct-11 World View -- Polygamy in Libya becomes an issue

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25-Oct-11 World View -- Polygamy in Libya becomes an issue

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25-Oct-11 World View -- Polygamy in Libya becomes an issue in the West

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U.S. withdraws ambassador to Syria after regime-sponsored threats
Bomb blasts in Nairobi, Kenya, kill one person, injure dozens
Britain's David Cameron defeats call for referendum on EU membership
Polygamy in Libya becomes an issue in the West
Greece's government runs out of ink for tax bills

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Generational Dynamics, Syria, Robert Ford, Imad Moustapha,
Jisr al-Shughur, Nairobi, Kenya, Somalia, al-Shabaab,
David Cameron, Britain, Libya, polygamy, Khadija Ali

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Re: 25-Oct-11 World View -- Polygamy in Libya becomes an iss

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Mohammed's polygamy, for example, has been explained by the fact that he married the widows of his own fallen soldiers for their protection.
When he was nearly an old man Mohammed married Aïsha who was 8 years old.
Was it because she was a widow too? Or maybe for less honorable reasons?

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Raynote wrote: When he was nearly an old man Mohammed married Aïsha who was 8 years old.
Was it because she was a widow too? Or maybe for less honorable reasons?
Women in Islam are second class citizens. Their testimony does not carry as much weight in court. So in any "he said, she said" situation, like rape, the man always wins.

Their fathers can sell them off to be married and they can not get out of it. Basically women are slaves.

If it was just a matter of who had the most babies and fighting with swords, Islam would take over the world. But Islam has a weakness, they kill off women smart enough to realize they are slaves. Also, they don't educate women. This lowers the overall IQ and education levels drastically. If mom can not help with the homework even boy children suffer. Israel develops more weapons systems than all the Arab countries combined. In a high tech war Islam will not do well. In a world war that goes on long enough to develop new weapons, Islam will not do well.

Update: Back in the time of the crusades, it was really the West's superior weapons technology that stopped Islam. The West had better armor and crossbows. So a smaller number of Knights could take out a larger number of Arabs. The gap in weapons technology is much greater now.
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If we can get the United States to destroy most of it's nuclear weapons the world would be much fairer.

Pakistan is building up toward 400 hundred strategic Nukes.

China is building up toward a thousand nuclear weapons.

Obama has signed a treaty that only requires the United States to reduce nuclear weapons.

Russia has a 10 to one advantage over the United States in short range nuclear weapons
and Russia is building long range first strike Missiles with 10 to 20 large warheads each.

The new Treaty Obama pushed through the Lame Duck Session of Congress
removes the previous limits on the number of nuclear warheads allowed in Russia.

The old START treaty, negotiated by Ronald Reagon, put limits on the number of nuclear warheads Russia could have
and allowed United States inspectors to visit anywhere in Russia to verify those numbers.

The so called new-START treaty eliminates the limit on nuclear warheads and the inspections and instead only limits the number of missiles and bombers.

Under Obama's new treaty a Russian Inter Continental Ballistic Missile ( ICBM )
with 18 large warheads counts the same as a U.S. missile with just 3 large warheads.

So the world is getting much fairer and the chance for Islamists to take over half of the world by force of arms is increasing.

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Re: 25-Oct-11 World View -- Polygamy in Libya becomes an iss

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Russia will be on our side in the next war, remember?

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