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		<title>By: War in Gaza Update #12 &#171; Random Thoughts- Do They Have Meaning?</title>
		<link>http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/01/happy-reading/comment-page-2/#comment-1171062</link>
		<dc:creator>War in Gaza Update #12 &#171; Random Thoughts- Do They Have Meaning?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] shared links in Happy Reading. From Stop The ACLU, ANSWER: We’re not anti-semitic, we just hate all [...]</description>
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		<title>By: themiddle</title>
		<link>http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/01/happy-reading/comment-page-2/#comment-1162090</link>
		<dc:creator>themiddle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well Simple Guy, I was going to ask you a question, but after reading all of your hate, I&#039;m not sure that I should. 

It&#039;s amusing to see a person who considers his religion superior to mine consider it an affront that some Jews would say their religion is superior to his. It&#039;s also amusing to read your blather about skin color. 

Obviously you believe that Muslims and Muslim societies are superior to Jews and Jewish societies. Fair enough. You don&#039;t like our skin color? Fair enough. You have a problem with lighter skinned people being born in Israel because you think they belong only if they &quot;can&#039;t lose their tan.&quot; Fair enough. It&#039;s very sad to read your hate but I suspect that you represent a much broader public than your community would like to admit. 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well Simple Guy, I was going to ask you a question, but after reading all of your hate, I&#8217;m not sure that I should. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s amusing to see a person who considers his religion superior to mine consider it an affront that some Jews would say their religion is superior to his. It&#8217;s also amusing to read your blather about skin color. </p>
<p>Obviously you believe that Muslims and Muslim societies are superior to Jews and Jewish societies. Fair enough. You don&#8217;t like our skin color? Fair enough. You have a problem with lighter skinned people being born in Israel because you think they belong only if they &#8220;can&#8217;t lose their tan.&#8221; Fair enough. It&#8217;s very sad to read your hate but I suspect that you represent a much broader public than your community would like to admit.</p>
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		<title>By: montana urban legend</title>
		<link>http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/01/happy-reading/comment-page-2/#comment-1161940</link>
		<dc:creator>montana urban legend</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;you on the other hand werent born here but you act like you own the own the whole middle east&quot;

Or at least that&#039;s what Saudi Arabia and Egypt would like us to believe in making us their proxy against IRAN!!! ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;you on the other hand werent born here but you act like you own the own the whole middle east&#8221;</p>
<p>Or at least that&#8217;s what Saudi Arabia and Egypt would like us to believe in making us their proxy against IRAN!!! <img src='http://www.jewlicious.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: froylein</title>
		<link>http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/01/happy-reading/comment-page-2/#comment-1161936</link>
		<dc:creator>froylein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MUL, unless simple guy is willing to discuss the reasons behind the drastic decrease in numbers of Palestinian Christians, he&#039;ll be ruminating on the same hypocrisies over and over again he came here for, just that we&#039;re not the right pasture for that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MUL, unless simple guy is willing to discuss the reasons behind the drastic decrease in numbers of Palestinian Christians, he&#8217;ll be ruminating on the same hypocrisies over and over again he came here for, just that we&#8217;re not the right pasture for that.</p>
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		<title>By: montana urban legend</title>
		<link>http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/01/happy-reading/comment-page-2/#comment-1161921</link>
		<dc:creator>montana urban legend</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;if you think we muslims are brutal, you have no idea what christians are capable of...&quot;

And what would that be, other than being six centuries of civilization and intellectual maturity ahead of you guys?

Obviously Christendom went through some rough and brutal growing pains of its own, even after an enlightenment that Islam hasn&#039;t even experienced yet. That&#039;s what scares the hell out of us about you guys. You still haven&#039;t come around to accepting the enormous strengths of Western civilization (despite all its previous shortcomings), let alone propose a way of competing against them or improving upon them. 

When as many books are translated into Arabic each year as are translated into GREEK, then I&#039;ll entertain the notion that y&#039;all are as open to rational inquiry and an intellectually enlightened existence as those nasty Christians are. Until then, I&#039;ll just have to assume that simple guy, as oversimplified as his ideas are, is still light years ahead of the intolerance, ignorance and ideological rigidity that exemplifies the typical man on the &quot;Arab Street&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;if you think we muslims are brutal, you have no idea what christians are capable of&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>And what would that be, other than being six centuries of civilization and intellectual maturity ahead of you guys?</p>
<p>Obviously Christendom went through some rough and brutal growing pains of its own, even after an enlightenment that Islam hasn&#8217;t even experienced yet. That&#8217;s what scares the hell out of us about you guys. You still haven&#8217;t come around to accepting the enormous strengths of Western civilization (despite all its previous shortcomings), let alone propose a way of competing against them or improving upon them. </p>
<p>When as many books are translated into Arabic each year as are translated into GREEK, then I&#8217;ll entertain the notion that y&#8217;all are as open to rational inquiry and an intellectually enlightened existence as those nasty Christians are. Until then, I&#8217;ll just have to assume that simple guy, as oversimplified as his ideas are, is still light years ahead of the intolerance, ignorance and ideological rigidity that exemplifies the typical man on the &#8220;Arab Street&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: froylein</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Judaism doesn&#039;t do missionary work as one of the core beliefs of Jewish eschatology is that any righteous person will receive salvation, regardless of their religious adherence, hence &quot;justice for all&quot;. The &quot;chosenness&quot; constitutes in a long list of duties that Jews need to fulfil in order to be &quot;righteous&quot; in the Jewish sense of the word as opposed to &quot;righteous&quot; in the non-Jewish sense, which doesn&#039;t mandatorily demand the observation of the mitzvot. Therefore, Judaism doesn&#039;t prosyletize (theoretically, that is) as it chooses not to burden others with its duties. Jews are therefore also expected to discourage hopeful converts from converting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Judaism doesn&#8217;t do missionary work as one of the core beliefs of Jewish eschatology is that any righteous person will receive salvation, regardless of their religious adherence, hence &#8220;justice for all&#8221;. The &#8220;chosenness&#8221; constitutes in a long list of duties that Jews need to fulfil in order to be &#8220;righteous&#8221; in the Jewish sense of the word as opposed to &#8220;righteous&#8221; in the non-Jewish sense, which doesn&#8217;t mandatorily demand the observation of the mitzvot. Therefore, Judaism doesn&#8217;t prosyletize (theoretically, that is) as it chooses not to burden others with its duties. Jews are therefore also expected to discourage hopeful converts from converting.</p>
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		<title>By: montana urban legend</title>
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		<dc:creator>montana urban legend</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;i have a question, if judaism is the true religion of abraham, then why didnt you guys try to teach judaism to others through missionary work?

are you so selfish that you dont believe in sharing the truth with anyone???&quot;

Because instead of endorsing proselytization, or mind control and brainwashing for that matter, we choose to allow people to come to their own conclusions regarding whether or not they want our faith. However, it sounds as if you may be unfamiliar with such forms of inquiry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;i have a question, if judaism is the true religion of abraham, then why didnt you guys try to teach judaism to others through missionary work?</p>
<p>are you so selfish that you dont believe in sharing the truth with anyone???&#8221;</p>
<p>Because instead of endorsing proselytization, or mind control and brainwashing for that matter, we choose to allow people to come to their own conclusions regarding whether or not they want our faith. However, it sounds as if you may be unfamiliar with such forms of inquiry.</p>
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		<title>By: xisnotx</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>simple guy, this might interest you: 

http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021016_arabjews.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>simple guy, this might interest you: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021016_arabjews.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021016_arabjews.html'>bintjbeil.com/...</a></p>
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		<title>By: simple guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>simple guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>correction, if a non jew tries to convert to judaism, forgot to add the last part</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>correction, if a non jew tries to convert to judaism, forgot to add the last part</p>
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		<title>By: simple guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>simple guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>many israelis are immigrants, israel has over a million russian speakers, israel also has lots of american and european jews.

you guys still didnt answer me though, whats so insulting about calling arabs a &quot;camel jocky&quot;?

why do you do it?

i mean many americans ride horses, do i call them all cowboys?will they be insulted if i call them cowboys?


how to prove that we arabs are not as ethnocentric compared to you?

well for one thing, we dont call ourselves &quot;the chosen ones&quot;(how stupid does that sound)
we dont make people people undergo tests to convert to islam, but if a non jew tries to convert and if he is not a VIP, god knows the trouble he will face.
also we arent that hung up on racial purity considering the fact that we have greater diversity, according to the definition of an arab:anyone who speaks arabic and follows arabic culture is an arab.

if you guys speak arabic and follow arab culture,listen to arab music, eat arab food, i will call you arabs

but if i try to convert to judaism, your rabbi will deny me the right, and you guys wont call me a jew even if i want to be one

how do you define a jew, its simple, one who has a jewish mother</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>many israelis are immigrants, israel has over a million russian speakers, israel also has lots of american and european jews.</p>
<p>you guys still didnt answer me though, whats so insulting about calling arabs a &#8220;camel jocky&#8221;?</p>
<p>why do you do it?</p>
<p>i mean many americans ride horses, do i call them all cowboys?will they be insulted if i call them cowboys?</p>
<p>how to prove that we arabs are not as ethnocentric compared to you?</p>
<p>well for one thing, we dont call ourselves &#8220;the chosen ones&#8221;(how stupid does that sound)<br />
we dont make people people undergo tests to convert to islam, but if a non jew tries to convert and if he is not a VIP, god knows the trouble he will face.<br />
also we arent that hung up on racial purity considering the fact that we have greater diversity, according to the definition of an arab:anyone who speaks arabic and follows arabic culture is an arab.</p>
<p>if you guys speak arabic and follow arab culture,listen to arab music, eat arab food, i will call you arabs</p>
<p>but if i try to convert to judaism, your rabbi will deny me the right, and you guys wont call me a jew even if i want to be one</p>
<p>how do you define a jew, its simple, one who has a jewish mother</p>
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