tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post806926998786455901..comments2023-10-31T14:07:04.482+00:00Comments on Conservative Swede: Geza on Kristor's commentConservative Swedehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-53276222807648484322010-03-15T21:13:15.991+00:002010-03-15T21:13:15.991+00:00ConservativeSwede, you don't have to find a hu...ConservativeSwede, you don't have to find a husband among the weaklings that the present European men are, so I'd say that for me this is a double whammy. :P I agree with you though, I can't believe that these are the people who ruled the world and colonized it. But again, I can't believe that Swedish people are descendants of the vikings either for the same reason. It's funny, but I realized that I am tougher on things than a lot of Western men are, which is sad.<br /><br />About the British - they always had a weird foreign policy related to the Muslim world. I remember that they didn't want to recognize my country's independence from the Porte at first. On the other hand, what they do is logical because they had to make the other European powers fight in order to be able to be a front runner in the race for the colonies and the race to preserve them.<br /><br />Anyway, I agree that Bush actually had the opportunity to destroy liberalism after 9/11. He could have had a great speech about what brought us here and the changes we need to make. He had the opportunity to be of the same significance as Ronald Reagan, but he failed to do so. Sadly, as you said so, even the Westerners who dislike Islam have no reasons for it, they just do it, so when someone confronts them about it, they just cower back. I guess they are part of the 80% of the populace who shouldn't have political thoughts.<br /><br />Hal K, I wouldn't destroy Islam. I'd just make them get it that if they attack us, they won't have schools, homes, mosques or anything else and I would start to discredit their movement through the press - it's how the anti-communist movement survived in my country. Radio Free Europe FTW. Basically, what I would do is first cut the welfare and governmental funds to Muslims while ban the building of new mosques and demolish the ones that preach hate - which is basically most of them. Then I would start making life uncomfortable in my country for them in such a way that they would leave peacefully, while crushing their protests if they rioted and deporting those that rioted. Eventually their number would be small enough to safely deport them. I would do the same for all violent non-European groups, I would ban immigration and asylum and restrict voting in the way I described before. Oh, and I would do away with the hate speech laws, hate crime laws and so on. Most importantly, I would promote home schooling and do tax deductions of $10k an year for each child a married couple has while doing away with the welfare for single mothers and child support for unmarried people(the deduction in equivalent dollars was the one I stated when the West had high fertility and people were forced to reproduce or starve when old - why do you think people without hefty retirement provisions prefer to have boys?). I would also do away with no-fault divorce and make a harsh criminal code - someone getting out in 3 years for rape like in my country is a farce. I like Singapore's criminal code. I would also do away with gun laws, most of the regulation and taxes and so on. I just need a country that will let me rule as a living goddess and everything will be cool. :PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-69102213920570217772008-09-22T10:28:00.000+00:002008-09-22T10:28:00.000+00:00sorry, staunch.sorry, staunch.Mike Courtmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226171376902020196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-8993797406023450932008-09-22T09:38:00.000+00:002008-09-22T09:38:00.000+00:00Islam isn't the main threat to the West - its the ...Islam isn't the main threat to the West - its the main threat to Europe.<BR/><BR/>If Europe wants to start to getting stauch with the Islamic world thats fine.<BR/><BR/>As far as America goes the main threat is Hispanic immigration, and Australia's main concern is being taking over by Asia.<BR/><BR/>Another point, why should the West (especially the US) be launching costly wars in the Middle East, while Asia (soon to be richer than the West) sits back and grows stronger?<BR/><BR/>The strength of the traditionalist approach is that if the West closes its borders more Muslims will try there luck in the East and run up against the more ruthless Chinese.Mike Courtmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226171376902020196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-61714461160017397212008-07-18T06:50:00.000+00:002008-07-18T06:50:00.000+00:00DaleinAtlanta wrote:"The Brits thought they were s...DaleinAtlanta wrote:<BR/><BR/>"The Brits thought they were so much smarter than everyone else, and thought they could play politics with the Jihadis, and they've been burned for 100 years as a result"<BR/><BR/>This might be a relevant remark, did not EVERY Western polity in the last 100 years right up into our own present fit this characterization, concerning the problem of Islam. (Perhaps the French in Algeria before their war and into that war were more grimly realistic about Muslims (they had no qualms about torturing the Islamic savages whose grotesque savagery we know from Algerian history both before and up to our time have no compunction about slitting the throats of whole villages just because some of them are not praying on time), but that soon deteriorated under the massive effects of politically correct multiculturalism in the early 1960s that attended their Algerian "Vietnam".)Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-1988273259310432532008-07-14T00:08:00.000+00:002008-07-14T00:08:00.000+00:00PS: and do some research, and read up on the Gran...PS: and do some research, and read up on the Grand Mufti's role as co-architect of the Holocaust!<BR/><BR/>The Brits could've killed him many times, prior to him teaming up with Himmler, and planning the slaughter of Millions of Jews, and they didn't do it!<BR/><BR/>The Brits thought they were so much smarter than everyone else, and thought they could play politics with the Jihadis, and they've been burned for 100 years as a result, and have inadvertantly, naievely, and in some cases, deliberately enabled and spawned some of the greatest muderers of all time, as a result:<BR/><BR/>The Grand Mufti Husseini<BR/>Saddam Hussein<BR/>Yasser Arafat<BR/>Idi Amin<BR/><BR/>and they enabled the Holocaust, the rise of Islamic fundalmentalism in Eastern Africa and Inida/Pakistan and precipitated the Japanese rapes of Naking, Manila, and the occupation and brutalization of the entire Far East from the 1920's thru 1945!<BR/><BR/>A disgraceful legacy, the Brits currently ignore while still reveling in their Anti-Americanism!DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-30894424372339495852008-07-13T23:59:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:59:00.000+00:00My bet is still on Britain for the first full-blow...My bet is still on Britain for the first full-blown Eurabian civil war,....<BR/><BR/><BR/>I would like to see some more data to see what they are basing that on.<BR/><BR/>The Churhd of England, the UK's clueless Judges, and even the addilpated Prince Charles would surrender to the Jihadis and Muslim Brotherhood tomorrow, if they could.<BR/><BR/>And they have the Treasonous Mayor of London, and that piece of crap Galloway, both closet Muslims, in their pockets as well.<BR/><BR/>I have a number of British friends, all upset with the way their country is going, and what it is doing, but they say they are real minorities there.<BR/><BR/>The basic problem is, Britain still can't get over the fact, 60 years on, that they lost their Empire, and the United States replaced them.<BR/><BR/>I grew up in a former Britist Colony, Nigeria, in the 1960's; all my playmates were British, mostly; and I went to British schools and had British teachers; talk about still whining about the US and calling us the "Colonials", even while begging us for Tang and other goodies we got from our Embassy, while there's abandoned them to live on the Nigerian "economy"; every conversation reeked of jealousy and envy of America and Americans, they loved us and despised us at the same time, and nothing has changed.<BR/><BR/>Heck, up until 1937, the British Admiralty considered the US Navy its greatest worldwide threat, and was holding Naval excercises for the "future war with America", while Germany was making long-range plans to destroy them, and Hitler was an obvious threat.<BR/><BR/>You see, the British, though they won't admit it, really, are blame for most of the problems in the Middle East today.<BR/><BR/>They couldn't effectively defend their vast Empire during WWI, and the Germans knew it; that is why "Haji Wilhlem" did what he did, sucking up to the last Caliphate in Turkey, and calling for Jihad against the British.<BR/><BR/>That lead to sort of worldwide uptick in Islamic fundalmentalism; Idi Amin came out of that generation, as he was in the British Colonial Army during that people, and saw the weaknesses of the British to Muslim aggression, and of course, he was a Muslim.<BR/><BR/>Barack HUSSEIN Obama's grandfather, converted to Islam during that same period, in response to the growning Anti-British movement in the former colonies, led by Muslims, and encouraged by the Turks and the Germans.<BR/><BR/>The stupid Brits had already encouraged the Zionist movement in England, going back to the 1880's in the UK, because they were racist against the Jews, and they figured if the encouraged the Jews to move back to the Holy Land, they'd be rid of them in the UK, and they aggravated the problem that way as well as giving liscence to Yassir Arafat's older cousin, the Grand Mufti of Jeruselum, support and saved his butt from the Turks several times.<BR/><BR/>In return, the Grand Mufti encouraged his number one Deputy, a man named Khairullah Tulfah, to lead a revolt against the British in his home country of Iraq, and Kahirullah Tulfah, was the dedicated Sunni Jihadi, and Muslim Brotherhood member, who raised his nephew....Saddam Hussein!<BR/><BR/>And Grand Mufti Husseini also encouraged and suppored his younger counsin, Yasser Arafat!<BR/><BR/>In addition, a young Indian in South Africa, saw the weakness of the British in Africa, and it encouraged him, and his name was Ghandi!<BR/><BR/>Finally, the British wanted to try and get back at the Germans for the trouble they were causing in their colonies in Africa, so they went to the Japanese Imperial Government, and asked them to help their miniscule Far Eastern forces to invade the German colonies in China!<BR/><BR/>The Japanese saw a great opportunity, did so, and realized that Britain was done as an Empire, and they'd move in; the result being Japanese Imperial expansion into all of China, Korea, etc., and that lead directly to the Japanese role in WWII.<BR/><BR/>Don't forget Lawrence of Arabia's role in encouraging the Arabs against the Turks, that caused the whole Arab Nationalism thing, and you can see that British weakness, and missteps dating from the 1880's, thru WWI, directly set the stage for WWII, and a post-WWII Middle East, and we're still paying the price today!DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-11437522415930428192008-07-13T23:39:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:39:00.000+00:00It says:"My bet is still on Britain for the first ...It says:<BR/><BR/>"My bet is still on Britain for the first full-blown Eurabian civil war, with the Netherlands as a close second, and possibly Denmark. Italians will fight back. I don’t know if the Spanish will."<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for today. See you soon!Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-4857299999812191752008-07-13T23:35:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:35:00.000+00:00Swede: Hi, I have ten min more, than have to get b...Swede: Hi, I have ten min more, than have to get back to writing a paper for someone...anything else for today real quick?DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-86466621809914071182008-07-13T23:22:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:22:00.000+00:00Okay, I went to the Gates of Vienna link, but didn...Okay, I went to the Gates of Vienna link, but didn't seen anything about Britain there?DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-89920965575063042332008-07-13T23:05:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:05:00.000+00:00Swede: I agree completely with you on Bush I; I w...Swede: I agree completely with you on Bush I; I was so pissed at the time, and I was an Active Duty Military officer, that I actually voted for Clinton, because I thought Bush and Powell had betrayed the Kurds & Southern Shiites so bad!DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-82278511699903239932008-07-13T23:04:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:04:00.000+00:00The thing with "Haji Wilhelm" is so amazing. But i...The thing with "Haji Wilhelm" is so amazing. But it's not the first time, or last. Westerners have often allied themselves with Muslims, in the most shameful ways, to fight each other.Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-39212214654980806502008-07-13T23:02:00.000+00:002008-07-13T23:02:00.000+00:00I don't agree with you about the UK. At the surfac...I don't agree with you about the UK. At the surface it looks so. But if you listen to the talk at the pubs it's a quite different thing. This has been discussed much at Gates of Vienna.<BR/><BR/>In fact me and Fjordman think that the UK is the most likely place for a revolt to start:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/07/civil-war-in-sweden.html" REL="nofollow">Read this.</A><BR/><BR/>The higher and lower classes in Britain are two quite different things.Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-29971162153398742582008-07-13T22:59:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:59:00.000+00:00Well, I can't but help thinking of Bush I who in t...Well, I can't but help thinking of Bush I who in the first Gulf War created the expectation among the Iraqi resistance against Saddam that he would invade. The result being that many of the prepared for this and came out of their holes, with the result that Saddam could savage them to death.Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-4534585422444823272008-07-13T22:52:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:52:00.000+00:00His other implicit message was: since you never s...His other implicit message was: since you never stick with anything, and always abandon your friends, no one can actually trust you, because they know you'll always sell them out and leave, and then we'll be here to take our revenge.<BR/><BR/>Again, he was very prescient!DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-52418109210022229722008-07-13T22:50:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:50:00.000+00:00I was in the Arabian Gulf in '88, aboard a US Navy...I was in the Arabian Gulf in '88, aboard a US Navy vessel; we were having a pretty low-key daily war with the Iranians, over shipping in the Gulf.<BR/><BR/>A few days after the USS Vincennes mistakenly shot down the Iranian airbus (I was there, it WAS a tragic mistake); I meet a Bahraini-Iranian guy, who I had come to know a bit; he just said to me: "Don't worry, we'll get you back, you Americans always abandon your friends, and you can't stick with anything, such as Vietnam; the Vietnamese just waited for you to get bored, and you left; you'll leave here, and we will take over; and we'll get you back for the Airbus, even though it was a mistake".<BR/><BR/>He was right of course, we actively have 45% of our country trying to surrender immediately, anytime we are in a foreign conflict, and the Iranians were responsible for the downing of PanAm Flight 103, they used the Libyans as surrogates...DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-9890880590928395802008-07-13T22:45:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:45:00.000+00:00Well Dale, I can just agree with everything you sa...Well Dale, I can just agree with everything you said so far.<BR/><BR/>It was the talk about the Axis of Evil that made me support the invasion of Iraq. It gave the impression that they had a more general plan. I thought, why Iraq? But accepted it as "first Iraq, then Iran".<BR/><BR/>It was all just talk of course...Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-37897839994970595822008-07-13T22:44:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:44:00.000+00:00The Germans, are trying to surrender, but when pus...The Germans, are trying to surrender, but when push comes to shove, I think the natural racism and the Germans will eventually cause them to wake up.<BR/><BR/>There is no hope for the UK I'm afraid, I believe it will be a maily Islamic state, as early as 30 - 50 years from now; and as for your people, I'm almost as pessimistic, but we'll see...DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-38003241750415213152008-07-13T22:42:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:42:00.000+00:00This was a crazy approach; Bush told people to go ...This was a crazy approach; Bush told people to go back to "shopping", and thought if the American massess remained fat, dumb, happy, and buying their SUV's and Playstations, he could avoid the Political fallout that doomed his father's re-election campaign, mainly over the economy, to Clinton back in '92.<BR/><BR/>But this was different, and Bush and his Administration, didn't see it; this literally required a WWII type motivation/mobilization effort: a draft, national projects/efforts, recycling, massinve programs to wean us off foreign oil, national service, weekly "chats" & talks on the threat, instantaneous attacks upon the Democrats and others who leaked information and pushed out bogus stories about the Administration, etc..<BR/><BR/>He/They didn't do that, and they squandered the chance....<BR/><BR/>Now, unfortunatley, the ONLY way to get it back, is going to occur, when Al Qaeda, or one of its semi-independent affiliates, finally does get their hands on those WMD's, and they will, eventually, and they take out the center of a major European and/or American city, and kill not Thousands, but Tens of Thousands or even Hundreds of Thousands.<BR/><BR/>And right now, I'm only about 90% convinced that will occur sometime in the next 20 years, or less.<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, with the impending election of the Marxist-Muslim Barack HUSSEIN Obama, who practices "Taqiyah", and lies to suit whatever political whim/wind is blowing today, into the Oval Office, we may be literally screwed as a country for the next decade or so.<BR/><BR/>France, is fighting back, as will the Chinese and the Russians, if they really get threatend, even though they enjoy seeing us lose people and treasure in Iraq/Afghanistan; Japan will never allow the Jihadis in; Eastern Europe is frimly in the American camp now, and will be a bulwark; Italy senses the threat, as does Spain, despite their new PM's surrender the other year, the general Spanish populace is too Catholic, and still remembers the "Reconquista" too firmly, to totally give up; the Swiss are starting to wake up; the Greeks, despite the fact they are Communists at heart, HATE the Turks and Muslims since time immemorial; and have backward applied their hate of Muslims to battles such as Thermopylae, even though Islam didn't exist then...DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-47967978875686932652008-07-13T22:32:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:32:00.000+00:00I do blame President Bush, alot, for missing the g...I do blame President Bush, alot, for missing the greatest opportunity handed to any President, since FDR during WWII.<BR/><BR/>Bush had a 91% approval rating, after his visit to the site of the WTC attack.<BR/><BR/>It was incumbent upon him, and his Administration, to lay out in no uncertain terms, the depth and the strength of the threat we faced, and he had to Rally the Nation, and the World, to the cause.<BR/><BR/>He did not; he, and Cheney, and Rumsfield, basically thought that this issue with Afghanistan, and even later Iraq, were minor little events, that could be fought with minimal effort, with no attempt to keep the American people on their side; to allow the Democrats, who will always be traitors, to set the agenda and the sedition, with the connivance of the mainstream Media and the active participation of Clintonistas in the DOD, State Department, CIA etc., such as Joe and Valierie Wilson-Plame, Paul Bremer, former Sec of the Treasury O'Neill, Wesley Cark, George Tennet, etc.; Bush allowed them to set the agenda, frame the talking points, and dominate the media with the incessant, mainly bogus attacks, that undermined his message, and the good things he was going, to the point where people basically quit listening to him shortly after the 2004 Presidental Election...DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-68016930678614711822008-07-13T22:26:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:26:00.000+00:00Well, sadly, I'm not optimistic.I may, unfortunate...Well, sadly, I'm not optimistic.<BR/><BR/>I may, unfortunately, require literally a Civil War withing Western Civilization, to weed out the Leftist, the Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Nuts, kooks, appeasers, Traitors, PC-crowd, Democrats, European Anti-American/Pederast Elite, Anti-American Hollywood crowd; the Leftist George-Soros bought and paid for Mainstream Media, etc..<BR/><BR/>Right now, all those groups are sympathetic to, and prove aid, comfort, succor, and encouragement to the Jihadi movement worldwide.<BR/><BR/>The basic reason is obvious; all those groups are Marxist in origin, if not out and outright Communist in sympathy; and Islam, as we all know, is the most Marxist, non-democratic, brain-washing of all cult religions; they have a joint history going back to the German Orientalists of the 1830's, right up thru Kaiser Wilhelm calling himself "Haji Wilhelm", wearing a Fez, calling for "Jihad" against the British on his visit to Turkey, and claiming he made the Haj to Mecca.<BR/><BR/>That's what we basically fighting here, beside the Jihadis, we're engaged in a ideological struggle within our borders, against the seditionists, traitors, appeasers, and kooks.....Sadly....DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-39120564296958678312008-07-13T22:01:00.000+00:002008-07-13T22:01:00.000+00:00My question is: how can we mobilize the proper res...My question is: how can we mobilize the proper resistance to it?<BR/><BR/>I'm not speaking of weapons or other hard currency here. As long as it is used in futile attempts. like trying to democratize Iraq, it's teethless.<BR/><BR/>No I'm speaking of the mobilization of the mind. This is always the first step. Before Churchill attacked Nazi-Germany he had a 100% clear picture of what they were about.<BR/><BR/>But with Islam, even the ones that appears as tough ones at first, backs off in the face of the truth. How can this be mobilized? Could we make use of the ex-Muslims? Westerners with a clear view, based on real experience, such as you are also very helpful.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe we need to attack the wall of PC first, in order to even get through? Maybe taking other battles, which are more easily explained, is the way to lockpick the whole thing.<BR/><BR/>What do you think?Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-31919630557319318172008-07-13T21:53:00.000+00:002008-07-13T21:53:00.000+00:00Swede: I'm working on the computer now; so between...Swede: I'm working on the computer now; so between projects and a shower, I have some minutes I can spare.<BR/><BR/>That's an open-ended question: <BR/><BR/>What's my take on it (Islam)!<BR/><BR/>Care to ask something more specific?<BR/><BR/>I'll be back in 15...DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-68339646500908492192008-07-12T05:44:00.000+00:002008-07-12T05:44:00.000+00:00Anyway, Dale. Back to my original question. You kn...Anyway, Dale. Back to my original question. You know the Muslim world better than 99.9% of the Westerners, so it still applies. What's your take on it?Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-87418056476635328792008-07-12T05:38:00.000+00:002008-07-12T05:38:00.000+00:00she told me I had to be a Muslim to date her, and ...<I>she told me I had to be a Muslim to date her, and so like the lust-filled idiot I was, I said the Shahhada 3 times, and she declared me a Muslim.</I><BR/><BR/>Just like I said. You are an ex-Muslim :-)<BR/><BR/>OK, I might have jumped to the collusion that you were born a Muslim, but what the heck... :-)<BR/><BR/>Amazing story about that Omani girl!Conservative Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307427516065904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023482402423762474.post-69189954575862076452008-07-12T05:08:00.000+00:002008-07-12T05:08:00.000+00:00Swede: "The only really tough ones I have met are ...Swede: <BR/><BR/>"The only really tough ones I have met are ex-Muslims like you..."<BR/><BR/>Wow, I'm sorry, I don't know how I gave you the impression I'm an "ex-Muslim"; if I implied that anywhere, then I was drunk when I said that!<BR/><BR/>I'm born and bred WASP from Central Pennsylvania, actually.<BR/><BR/>My father was in University during the outbreak of WWII, in the Army Air Corps ROTC; his summer job was construction in his home town, an accident one summer, before graduation, nearly severed his left arm completely; it got him out of the Army Air Corps, and ended his dream of being a Pilot; but it may have saved his life as the US lost 55,000 Pilots alone, in only the European Theater of the war!<BR/><BR/>Since he was injured, and no more military; he was hired by Firestone because his degree was in Tripical Plants, and he spent 13 years in Liberia, growing Rubber trees.<BR/><BR/>When I was 8, we moved to Nigeria, and he was working directly for the US Government at that time.<BR/><BR/>When I was 18, we moved to Egypt for almost 5 years, and I went to University there and studied Arabic.<BR/><BR/>Where there, I met the most amazing Omani girl, related to the Royal Family, she told me I had to be a Muslim to date her, and so like the lust-filled idiot I was, I said the Shahhada 3 times, and she declared me a Muslim. <BR/><BR/>Her father found out about me a little while later, and shipped her sister and her off to Switzerland and a private school away from me.<BR/><BR/>I never practiced Islam, nor was "officially" a Muslim after that, it was my only brush with the "dark side".<BR/><BR/>Besides, I found a Christian Egyptian-Lebanese girl right afterwards, to empty my adolescent frustrations on, and I didn't need to be a "Muslim" anymore.<BR/><BR/>But I've never told this story on a Blog, anywhere, anytime before, so I'm sorry I must have somehow given you a false impression, but I'm not really an "ex-Muslim", that would not be an accurate reflection of reality.<BR/><BR/>As for the Omani girl, strange story, ten years past, never heard or saw her again.<BR/><BR/>In 1988, I was in the Arabian Gulf, with the US Marine Forces. I was on a US Navy ship, and we did a Port Call in Muscat!<BR/><BR/>When we pulled in, I thought about her, but thought it was crazy.<BR/><BR/>later that night, we had a party for the Diplomats on board the ship; I saw an Omani girl talking to some of the Junior Officers, and I went up to her and starting speaking Arabic. She asked me how I knew that, and I told her I had dated an Omani girl ten years before!<BR/><BR/>She asked me her name, and I told her, and she just laughed and said "She's my best friend, she lives about 2 miles from here, here is her phone number!"<BR/><BR/>I called her, and she recongized my voice immeidately; she came and picked me up in her Benz, and we had a nice 3 day reunion, talking over old times, having dinner. (No, nothing else ocurred, it was innocent and Platonic!)<BR/><BR/>Then, we lost touch again.<BR/><BR/>Twenty years past, until this spring, about 5 months ago; I was messing around on one of those Networking sites, and I thought, what the hell, and typed in her name!<BR/><BR/>Lo and Behold, there she was!<BR/><BR/>I sent her a message, and she replied!<BR/><BR/>She's married now, to a British Lawyer, of all things!<BR/><BR/>Crazy huh, and small world!DaleinAtlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12621593936040073257noreply@blogger.com