Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: (OT) They're not all crazy in Europe Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:24:31 -0400 Organization: None Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <1rb0aba.18a8w6z12c0zskN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <0cMMP.704185$SVG3.567961@fx42.iad> <1rb1ipg.3w2n301vs09ntN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <_hqNP.444264$j2D.243272@fx09.iad> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:24:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5823d4539bb7f6b5bd87b291338acf31"; logging-data="3450163"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18b3gc90T3+DZ0/nVENdney" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wbqv0KC+aT6YRHpHuLOOVsfVq4g= X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Face: 63n<76,LYJQ2m#'5YL#.T95xqyPiG`ffIP70tN+j"(&@6(4l\7uL)2+/-r0)/9SjZ`qw= Njn mr93Xrerx}aQG-Ap5IHn"xe;`5:pp"$RH>Kx_ngWw%c\+6qSg!q"41n2[.N/;Pu6q8?+Poz~e A9? $6_R7cm.l!s8]yfv7x+-FYQ|/k X-Slrn: Why use anything else? rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:39:41 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote: > >> There are different Muslim sects. Some are much less aggressive than >> others. >> The Shiites, for example, aren't usually the "head choppers," that's >> nearly always the Sunnis. Guess which ones the U.S. cuddles up to? >> >> Jews in Iran, for example, are not persecuted so long as they identify >> as Iranians and not Zionists (Israelis). Iran is a Shiite country. > > To further complicate it, Arabs are a small minority in Iran and > frequently persecuted. Iran inherited what was called Arabistan from the > Ottoman Empire and it's been a thorn in their side. The Persians are an > Indo-European people, or what was called Aryan before some unfortunate > 20th century events. They don't like Arabs, who are a Semitic people. > > It's like one of those logic statements. Most Arabs are Moslems but most > Moslems aren't Arabs. The Arabs seem to be the least civilized. Can you speak to their usage of Linux? :-) -- Ask not for whom the  tolls.