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It is now generally agreed…
If you hear a politician, businessman, or religious leader say “it is now generally agreed” you immediately know that the person making that statement has decided that something is true despite what other people might think about it. As an … Continue reading
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Tagged Piracy, politicians, presumptions, Thinking
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An enemy of my enemy is…
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So, the fundamentalist Muslims who control the southern portion of Somalia are threatening to attack the home base city of the pirates who hijacked the Sirius Star, an Arab oil tanker carrying an estimated $100 million in crude oil.
The fundamentalists, called the Shebab (or Shebaab or Shabaab) and a reincarnation of the Islamic Courts Union defeated in late 2006 by an incursion of the Ethiopian army, claim that their beliefs require them to do something about the pirates since piracy is a capital crime in the Koran. Yet, one has to wonder why the Shabab has turned a blind eye on the piracy rampant on Somalia’s coast until it was suddenly worth $100 million dollars. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Fundamentalism, Piracy, Somalia
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