Actually, Friend
The Maori are the Native race here in NZ. They have more right to be here than anyone else. As for Australia, the Maori who live there speak English and Maori. Is there some kind of a problem with Americans actually learning a foreign language or do you somehow think it will...
Actually,
The symbol is the CND's sign for Nuclear Disarmament, it is based on the position of Semaphore flags. As well a similar cross is an ancient Christian symbol which shows the cross on which Peter was crucified.
Kiwimac
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Your quoting propaganda is pure and for the purposes of education but if anyone counters you it means they are either being PC or deliberately trying to decieve you. We call that paranoia where I come from.
Oh please!
I have studied Islam for well over 30 years. HOW LONG HAVE YOU?
Are you so naive as to truly believe THESE stories NOW have nothing to do with your loony Administration's desire to attack Iran? Did you learn NOTHING from the monumental pile of the dead and dying that is Iraq...
I find the police action in this case both excessive and unacceptable. The officer concerned should be charged with negligent homicide at the very least
Kiwimac
So just how long have you studied Islam? How many Muslims have you actually spoken with? Have you researched Iran's history or the history of the US's meddling in the Me?
Or do you simply want to paint Shi'ite Muslims as terrorists?
Frankly Iran is far less of a threat than the US and the Moron-in-Chief.
Iran's president is a politician and an astute one, he speaks what he thinks his electorate wants to hear and he makes sure that he does not alienate the hard-core base of his power.
That aside, Israel has broken or...
You have read the recent report by the CIA?
Iran has NO VIABLE ATOMIC WEAPON or WEAPONS PROGRAMS.
And as far as Israel is concerned, people who live in glass houses should be very careful indeed about the stones they throw.
Kiwimac
You might also be interested in the views of Reconstuctionist and Reform Judaism on this point.
http://rj.org/whatisrj.shtml
Reconstructionism
From: http://www.jrf.org/edu/faqs.html#19
Finally from a Hasidic site the following about Sodom and Gomorrah
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