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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 03:22 PM
Response to Reply #21
27. It is clear the intent was to smear Islam by mentioning it in this context
Just because the captors were Saudis. There was certainly nothing mentioned in the article about religion being used to justify their criminal activities.

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  -Indictment: Saudi Couple in Colorado Kept Woman as Household Slave NNN0LHI  Jun-10-05 06:38 PM   #0 
  - We're all enslaved. By the oil kept in their homeland.  HypnoToad   Jun-10-05 06:39 PM   #1 
  - Lynching?  Tandalayo_Scheisskopf   Jun-10-05 06:52 PM   #2 
  - The enslavement of Asian women( from India, Phillippines,Thailand,  KlatooBNikto   Jun-10-05 07:14 PM   #3 
  - Anything negative about the Saudis,  alarcoeg   Jun-11-05 09:40 AM   #15 
  - I agree with you. These are difficult matters for us (leftists)  Colorado Blue   Jun-11-05 10:47 AM   #17 
  - If the household slave isn't white, young, and pretty, no one bats an eye  Straight Shooter   Jun-10-05 07:24 PM   #4 
  - The Saudis are our allies, right?  mbperrin   Jun-10-05 07:26 PM   #5 
  - If these Saudis have connections back home  quaoar   Jun-10-05 07:51 PM   #6 
  - A Texas couple did that  malaise   Jun-10-05 07:55 PM   #7 
  - No intent to offend...  SlipperySlope   Jun-10-05 08:03 PM   #8 
  - Partly true, but the slave trade to the Americas was same supplying the  John Q. Citizen   Jun-10-05 08:10 PM   #9 
  - Partly true, in the same sense  igil   Jun-11-05 11:03 AM   #20 
  - So does Christianity have a long tradition of slavery  Ms. Clio   Jun-11-05 01:49 AM   #11 
  - It has as much to do with Islam as slavery in the OT has to do  igil   Jun-11-05 11:06 AM   #21 
     - It is clear the intent was to smear Islam by mentioning it in this context  Ms. Clio   Jun-11-05 03:22 PM   #27 
  - No offense taken  JNelson6563   Jun-11-05 07:32 AM   #12 
  - The Bible raised a voice against slavery  Art_from_Ark   Jun-11-05 09:29 AM   #14 
     - Right, but then "God" told them to go and murder the various "ites" . . .  The Stranger   Jun-11-05 10:00 AM   #16 
     - Oh, GIVE ME A BREAK. That was in 3,000 BC.  Colorado Blue   Jun-11-05 10:50 AM   #19 
        - Huh?  Art_from_Ark   Jun-11-05 11:10 AM   #22 
           - I apologize if I misconstrued your statement. nt  Colorado Blue   Jun-11-05 01:54 PM   #24 
  - I didn't mean to say...  SlipperySlope   Jun-11-05 08:01 AM   #13 
     - So what? What does that have to do with their religion?  Ms. Clio   Jun-11-05 03:25 PM   #28 
        - Huh?  SlipperySlope   Jun-12-05 12:24 PM   #29 
           - Please find the exact paragraph in the posted article  Ms. Clio   Jun-12-05 02:25 PM   #32 
              - kick n/t  Stockholm   Jun-14-05 05:51 AM   #33 
  - In Saudi Arabia  benddem   Jun-10-05 08:58 PM   #10 
  - Yeah, well I knew a business woman in Detroit,  PassingFair   Jun-11-05 02:04 PM   #26 
  - Wait, they're our allies against Terra  warrens   Jun-11-05 10:50 AM   #18 
  - The SS will probably charge the Indonesian woman with prostitution  0007   Jun-11-05 12:47 PM   #23 
  - OK, don't laugh - BUT - there was a recent conference in  Colorado Blue   Jun-11-05 01:56 PM   #25 
  - Hey, this is totally normal...  Chicago Democrat   Jun-12-05 12:52 PM   #30 
  - This is the product,  agincourt   Jun-12-05 01:53 PM   #31 
 

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