minor correction should be sunni not shi’ite(unless it really was shi’ites but being tirkit is mostly sunni along with the vast majority of Al-Qaeda.

PS mod delete this post once correction is made.
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“Mullahs.” Mullah generally (in arabic speaking areas) means Shia.

Or maybe the original writer got it wrong in using that term.

Second, the refusal of many Muslim societies to allow birth control exacerbates this problem. Birth bias toward more girls would help.

Third, the practice of consanguineous (first cousin) marriages (in some countries exceeding 50% of all marriages) along with polygamy is increasing the frequency of recessive genes expressing themselves as physical and mental diseases.

Fourth, Islam is based on a flawed assumption that males and females are organized like other large mammals with herd mentalities. The males are blameless for raping if a woman displays the slightest provocation and males are expected to dominate a “herd” which naturally means violence toward other men. Polygamous societies are always violent, even Christian ones. Islam does not expect a man to refrain from exploitation of women or violence in general. Christianity is founded on mankind being made in the likeness of God and thus, because he has a conscious and can make individual choices, is morally compelled to emulate Him and love all his creatures.

The particular flaw in Islamic logic is that herding animals give the female the absolute power to refuse sex when she is not in heat (estrus). Conversely humans have the wonderful gift (menses) of year round sexual receptivity in females. Islam insults men by assuming they are dumb beasts who cannot restrain themselves and insults women by saying it is OK for men to rape and beat them because they are simply weaker beasts. If women really were just another typical mammal, she would be non-receptive to sex except once or twice a year, given her body weight in comparison to other large mammals. The larger the mammal, the longer it is between estrus. So we are truly distinct from other mammals and have a higher calling than Islam decrees.

If everything is predetermined by Allah instead of individual choice there is no incentive to apply the golden rule or even study the natural laws of the universe.

Second, as a result of their self-imposed mental handicap, they resent the fact that Americans (as a group) are, by stark contrast, the most rational, purposeful, nature-taming, productive-wealth-creating people to have ever lived.

So, like the child throwing the tantrum, they figure that if they destroy America, then it will no longer be a reproach to them for their shabby existence. Collapsing of the World Trade Center with 3,000 murdered Americans is thus cause for jubilation in the streets! It would be difficult to find a more primitively anthropocentric re-write of reality than this!

This is of course unfortunate for America and the rest of the civilized world because far from resenting others, producers know that it’s in their best interest for *everyone* in the world to be as productive as possible – bringing more values to the world’s markets (beyond the oil they looted from us) so *everyone* makes more profit. There are no conflicts of interest among rational men.

As to the American leftists who hate America, and the conservative wimps who apologize for being American: well, they too should be pitied for their ignorance.

Had we had leaders for the past fifty years with the courage to affirm our right to exist by keeping our oil wells and perhaps nuking Iran and Saudi on 9/12/01, we and the rest of the world would have by now gotten on with the business of peaceful production, profits and the pursuit of happiness in this life. Instead, our leaders are moving us to the day when the Enlightenment finally collapses and the barbarians take over…

But in a broader context, we also now have one entire generation in Palestine and elsewhere throughout the Middle East whose minds have been completely corrupted since birth – to comprehensively embrace mysticism, to hate Americans, and to kill Jews through suicide bombing.

The barbaric anti-mind, death-worshipping teachings of Islam are overrunning Europe. The U.K. has pockets of Sharia Law, and here in the U.S. so-called “peace-loving” muslims are conspicuously silent about the need to defend individual rights and capitalism.

I agree that most American newspapers and broadcasts are long on statism, short on capitalism and devoid of news, but until we teach reason in our schools and universities, and until the majority of Americans understand why a proper government must be *completely* separated from religion, I won’t get excited about a few more Iraqis terrorists abandoning violence.

Thank you. This is a great Thanksgiving story!

By the way, on my blog yesterday I touched on a theme that I first read about here on your blog, the idea that the Chinese government makes up economics statistics, in this case their unemployment rate. I think you would enjoy the latest entry in my blog about the current economic situation in China.

Howard Richman
http://www.tradeandtaxes.blogspot.com