Pakistan is not an Arab country. It's ethnically Indian but Muslim. This is it's only connection to the rest of the Muslim world. It has nukes but has not exported them to other countries. Is it free? Freer than just about every other Muslim country this side of Egypt. But that brings up the question of Egypt. They publish anti-Semitic cartoons all the time in the government controlled press but is considered by most an ally of the west. It has a peace treaty with Israel, but it's a very cold peace if peace at all. It has some freedom but not as much as America or the EU. It has had some small protests but not many and not large at all. The point is, the only protests seen in the Arab world are small ones in more western Muslim countries. Why? Maybe because the rule of law is enforced over religious law. Maybe because there has been some rather heavy crackdowns on the extremists in these countries. The extremists in these countries think of the government as allies or lackeys of the west and should be overthrown. This has lead to some strict controls over demonstrations and a greater impact of rule of law. Lets name these countries off. Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan. All secularly controlled countries. And who has been pushing this boycott and associated riots. Our good friend and religiously controlled Saudi Arabia. The country that has no Christians in it because they don't let anyone practice ANY religion other than Islam. Even when we had troops there, they were not considered Christians and if they were caught worshipping there was trouble. But that's neither here nor there. We don't care about the intolerance of Muslim countries. We care about the intolerance of a western one.
> Pakistan is a free country then, according to you? I was doing something > else last night, and only had so much time to look, and ran into the > expected difficulties, but did find several news stories about > demonstrators in Arab countries being arrested. I am not really sure what > it is you say does not exist. A conciliatory statement from the government > of Iran? If so, sure, I agree with you. If you are saying that no Muslim > is speaking out except in Western countries, umm, I am not so sure. > >>Nope. My position has always been the same and stated 3 times in this >>thread. The only 'real' protests against terrorism and extremists take >>place >>in 'free' countries where there is no threat of death and attack from >>those >>same terrorists and extremists. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:196185 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
