Please lets get back to "Blanik bashing". At least it more closely related to
soaring ( i believe part of the title of this digest)
By the way ian , flew the M200 (GTG) a few weeks ago, very sweet. Will write
something for VT soon
cheers
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> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:00:12 +1030
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> 1. Re: The power of the media, was RE: The power of prayer?
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> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:56:27 +1000
> From: Mike Borgelt <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] The power of the media, was RE: The power
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> At 04:05 PM 27/03/2009, you wrote:
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>
> While Robert scuba dives through Cairo, the rest of you who may be
> interested can search for "islamic terror attacks", "islam
> expansion", "Battle of Tours", " Lepanto"(and read the poem) ,"battle
> of Vienna 1683", "Barbary coast pirates". I'm sure you will be surprised.
>
> By the way Robert, nowhere in my post did I class "all people of the
> Islamic faiths as terrorists". You are obviously reading
> comprehension challenged. You also left out my reference to ASIC
> cards. Nice. Care to tell us why we need them?
>
> The point I was making was in response to Gavin Wrigley's post, that
> making judgements after due consideration of the facts is not "prejudice".
>
> Ever consider how if Islam had won at Tours or Lepanto or Vienna
> there might well have been no renaissance or Western civilization?
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> >Mike Borgelt wrote:
> >>
> >>I'd be just as pissed off if the Captain started using his rosary
> >>beads but judgements based on verifiable facts such as that we in
> >>the West are currently under attack by a 1400 year old political
> >>movement masquerading as a religion, whose adherents want us dead
> >>or converted to their totalitarian cause and are the cause of much
> >>strife in the world today as they have been for the last 1400 years
> >>are not "prejudice".
> >That, I'm afraid, is some of the most bigotted anti-Islamic speech I
> >have come across. In much the same way that the beliefs on the
> >extremist fringes of the Christian religion have only a passing
> >acquaintanceship with the core teachings of Christ, those of the
> >extreme Islamists also bear little resemblance to the core of Islam.
> >
> >Furthermore, when we in the "educated west" were wallowing in the
> >dark ages, conducting purges against our fellow Christians (take a
> >look at the Abigensian "Crusade" as an example), burning
> >'proscribed' books reporting unacceptable truths and also people for
> >investigating the real world around them, the Islamic civilisation
> >was keeping alive the flame of learning and scientific inquiry.
> >
> >Without the preservation and extension of knowledge undertaken by
> >the Islamic civilisations around the mediterranean, our Renaissance
> >would have had a hard time getting started.
> >
> >I do not condone and will not accept the behaviour of the terrorists
> >- but neither will I accept sweeping generalisations that attempt to
> >class all people of the Islamic faiths as terrorists.
> >
> >I hasten to add I am not an adherent of either religion.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Robert
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