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shira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-17-11 03:56 AM
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32. Pro-Palestinian Leftists could care less about Arab liberals and their individual rights. n/t
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  -EU politicians oppose PA upgrade due to rights violations King_David  Oct-12-11 10:50 PM   #0 
  - 1960 Jordanian Penal Code, prohibits homosexual activity  King_David   Oct-12-11 10:52 PM   #1 
  - Wheres all the 'progressives' here defending this bigoted homophobic country to be ?  King_David   Oct-12-11 10:54 PM   #2 
  - Hah , thought so...  King_David   Oct-13-11 06:49 AM   #4 
  - interesting view from a saudi arabian liberal....  pelsar   Oct-17-11 02:55 AM   #31 
     - Pro-Palestinian Leftists could care less about Arab liberals and their individual rights. n/t  shira   Oct-17-11 03:56 AM   #32 
  - Tough Love: Britain Will Cut Aid to 'Anti-gay' Nations  King_David   Oct-12-11 11:01 PM   #3 
  - Kick nt  King_David   Oct-13-11 06:18 PM   #5 
  - So what happens next  vminfla   Oct-14-11 12:17 PM   #6 
  - The last paragragh of the article spells it out quite clearly  azurnoir   Oct-14-11 12:33 PM   #7 
     - Clearly it's the right move agains an extremely bigoted right wing government  King_David   Oct-14-11 05:56 PM   #8 
        - On that perhaps you should further investigate the link you used here on this thread  azurnoir   Oct-15-11 02:38 AM   #10 
           - No need , this paragraph spells it out quite clearly, BIGOTS( PA and Hamas)  King_David   Oct-15-11 12:07 PM   #11 
              - so it could seem as if you do not want your own link looked at too closely?  azurnoir   Oct-15-11 12:44 PM   #12 
                 - Here  King_David   Oct-15-11 01:28 PM   #13 
                 - you have repeated that single passage no less than 3 times on this thread why link to it?  azurnoir   Oct-15-11 02:10 PM   #14 
                    - cos you told me that homosexuality was legal in the West Bank  King_David   Oct-15-11 06:56 PM   #15 
                       - Once again you should further investigate your own link  azurnoir   Oct-15-11 07:10 PM   #16 
                          - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-15-11 08:54 PM   #17 
                             - I said said you should check your own links are you denying their veracity?  azurnoir   Oct-15-11 08:57 PM   #18 
                                - it is a strange' progressive' that do not stand up for LGBT rights nt  King_David   Oct-15-11 09:04 PM   #19 
                                   - once again I have said nothing but that you should check your own links  azurnoir   Oct-15-11 09:26 PM   #21 
                 - so what do you think?  pelsar   Oct-15-11 09:20 PM   #20 
  - Kudos to these brave EU officials for standing up vs. vulgar PA rightwingery. n/t  shira   Oct-14-11 07:28 PM   #9 
  - Here's another quote from Ms Nirenstein  Donald Ian Rankin   Oct-16-11 07:04 PM   #22 
     - What Rubbish  King_David   Oct-16-11 07:10 PM   #23 
     - Do you think these Europeans were wrong  King_David   Oct-16-11 07:12 PM   #24 
     - No, but I think they were wrong in the way they chose to do so. N.T.  Donald Ian Rankin   Oct-16-11 07:16 PM   #25 
     - Surely then these politicians also opposed Morocco becoming a member  azurnoir   Oct-16-11 08:11 PM   #26 
        - Ha  King_David   Oct-16-11 09:38 PM   #27 
        - Well then if the King of Morocco is openly Gay it wouild seem all this would change  azurnoir   Oct-16-11 10:09 PM   #28 
           - Morrocco should be banned from the organization along with Palistine  King_David   Oct-16-11 10:40 PM   #29 
              - I think you're missing the point of the UN.  Donald Ian Rankin   Oct-17-11 10:07 AM   #36 
                 - not a league of democracies"...but the UN itself  pelsar   Oct-17-11 10:43 AM   #37 
                 - Why would they join?  Donald Ian Rankin   Oct-17-11 11:12 AM   #38 
                    - It would still be a place where nations talk to each other. But dictatorships/closed societies....  shira   Oct-17-11 02:58 PM   #40 
                    - so shire lets see a list of the nations you've got in mind here that should be treated 'differently'  azurnoir   Oct-17-11 05:53 PM   #41 
                    - To start with, nations that are 'not free' on the freedom house list. Here's a map...  shira   Oct-17-11 06:36 PM   #42 
                       - just to be clear most of the 'not free' are 3rd world right?  azurnoir   Oct-17-11 07:24 PM   #43 
                          - So? What's your point? Be clear....  shira   Oct-17-11 07:29 PM   #44 
                             - the map and the suggestion of 2 tier system  azurnoir   Oct-18-11 05:35 PM   #49 
                                - Yeah, 2 tier. Genuine democracies vs. totalitarian dictatorships. I don't see why you think....  shira   Oct-18-11 06:22 PM   #52 
                                   - because you see the US has this little thing called a veto perhaps you can look it up sometime  azurnoir   Oct-18-11 06:31 PM   #53 
                                      - China and Russia have veto power too. You think the majority of nations that are totalitarian...  shira   Oct-18-11 06:33 PM   #54 
                                         - That's called checks and balances it means you do not always get your way  azurnoir   Oct-18-11 07:06 PM   #55 
                    - Is this some sort of idealized state of the UN  vminfla   Oct-17-11 08:20 PM   #45 
                       - Yes, that would be the ideal as the UN today does more to hurt than help things worldwide. n/t  shira   Oct-17-11 08:40 PM   #46 
                    - they would join because thats...  pelsar   Oct-18-11 06:01 PM   #51 
                 - Its an opportunity to force Civilized behavior  King_David   Oct-17-11 02:23 PM   #39 
                    - It's pretty clear many Leftists aren't interested in the rights of people in totalitarian societies  shira   Oct-17-11 08:44 PM   #47 
        - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-18-11 05:30 PM   #48 
           - what are you going on about? or can we take it that these brave politician's were ok with Morocco  azurnoir   Oct-18-11 05:39 PM   #50 
     - ...a Jew is necessarily not to be a true citizen of ones own homeland  holdencaufield   Oct-16-11 11:06 PM   #30 
        - But not by significant numbers of people in the West for three generations. N.T.  Donald Ian Rankin   Oct-17-11 09:00 AM   #33 
           - wasn't germain enlightened in the 1930's?  pelsar   Oct-17-11 09:49 AM   #34 
           - Jews in Germany...  holdencaufield   Oct-17-11 09:55 AM   #35 
 

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