Bush's Shia Islamic War Vs Obama's Sunni War

Do you understand the difference between statistics and anecdotes? How do you determine statistically whether a whole nation is Sunni or Shi'ite?

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Roman Catholics are the dominant religious group in Canada. Most of our recent Prime Ministers have been Roman Catholic but our current Prime Minister is an evangelical Protestant. How does that effect the way Canada is "regarded" by the rest of the world? Do you think we missed getting a seat on the UN Security Council because we're not considered Catholic any more?

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

The point is that you can't use a few numbers from Wikipedia or elsewhere to decide that a country is Sunni or Shi'ite. The distinction that you're trying to make is as nonsensical as the idea that Obama involuntarily inherited Islam from his father.

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

I'm saying that you can't use those numbers to characterize a country. Canada isn't an evangelical Protestant country because we have an evangelical Protestant Prime Minister, nor is it a Roman Catholic country because the largest religious group is Roman Catholics. The same applies to Islam. You can't characterize a country as Sunni ot Shi'ite based on numbers. That's utter nonsense. You, of all people, should understand that a Christian is a Christian because of his own beliefs, not his father's beliefs. The same applies to any other belief.Edited by ringo, : Sprlling.

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

So your claim then is that Obama is perceived as a Muslim by Muslims? Do you have any evidence from Muslims to suggest that?

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

I asked you a question back in Message 56:

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So your claim then is that Obama is perceived as a Muslim by Muslims? Do you have any evidence from Muslims to suggest that?

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

Your own source doesn't support that claim. It says that Hamas prefered Obama to McCain. Maybe others in the Muslim world did too. Certainly the American voters did. Stop calling them that. It's an insult to democracy. You're implying that only people who agree with you have minds of their own.

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

They didn't "support" Obama; they expressed a preference. In Canada, we couldn't care less what some foreigners think about our elections. I assume it's the same in the US, so Hamas' preference is irrelevant. Don't be stupid. It wasn't communists or socialists or Muslims who elected Obama; it was the majority of American voters. You're saying that the majority of American voters are incapable of making an intelligent choice. THAT is an affront to democracy.You should be ashamed of yourself. Your candidate lost. Grow up and get over it.

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"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"