Sanctions and all these other “diplomatic” measures are designed to fail. To give the Government and People of America the excuse they want to start the war they so desperately want. Despite all the reassurances to the contrary the only way to win a war with Iran will be to invade and occupy the country. [...]

Lack of interest in the illegal war the United States and Israel are actually carrying out against Iran, in news reports and blog posts on this from the Right isn’t surprising Pakistan, and Afghanistan to say nothing of their attempt to overthrow they Syrian goverment and their failed war of aggression against Irak and their persistent [...]

To my eyes it somewhat resembles a disarmed MQ-1 of the kind all too often seen in use in Irak. Even if true that such are now being used in America on American citizens so what? I am very considerably less than sympathetic. If the American people get to experience some of what the People [...]

I note that nobody has yet attempted to engage me on my objection to the fact that this is an Islamophobic post which differs only in emphasis and degree from the sort of rubbish one finds on freerepublic, redstate, and similar redneck trash sites. But then there is no difference other than one of emphasis [...]

No I do not acknowledge what is a flat out lie. I also note that in the period of history you are referring to that both the Ottoman and the Safavid empires received and welcomed entire populations of Christian and Jewish refugees both from the Western lands and from those controlled by the Orthodox church. [...]

I have flagged this post as unsuitable for its bigotry and thinly concealed racism.

Mohammed Ibn Laith

May I as a practitioner of Shariah law point out to you that this is a garbage article. Written by somebody without the slightest idea of what she is writing about. I find it profoundly offensive that in common with every other bigoted American you should try to use Islam as an insult. I find [...]

By all means continue to daub him – liberally – him with lipstick.

Mohammed Ibn Laith

I have heard all of those excuses before. It is you Americans who coined the expression that “people get the government they deserve” – yes indeed. How are you enjoying it? Your government and that of the Zionist state are as they are because they are the form of government fitted to racist settler states [...]

No. If somebody wishes to behave like a pig that is his right. It is my right to refer to his behaviour with the contempt he has earned by his contemptible behaviour. The difference of course is that unlike the pig, he has chosen to be what he is.

Mohammed Ibn Laith

Randall – stop your drive-bys and engage in a fucking discussion once in a while.

To use your own idiom, he will do so when pigs fly.

Mohammed Ibn Laith

Claims of Jewish supremacism are no more racist than American claims that we are a shining castle on a hill, or that we are exceptional among nations.

There is no such thing as a chosen people as the Holy Qur’an makes very clear.

13. O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and [...]

Usually at this point of this argument – which I have had many times before with one or other of your compatriots, the argument is advanced that America was founded by people fleeing tyranny and seeking religious and political freedom. This ignores that the “pilgrim fathers” lacked the courage to do what their puritan brethren [...]

But that is actually atypical behavior by most Americans.

Not in my experience, not in the experience of innumerable Asians, not in the experience of the peoples of Central and South America, certainly not in the experience of indigenous Americans. Need I go on?

If that wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t have had such huge immigration over [...]

My point was that when he wrote:

Isn’t a little bit of traditional anti-semitism appropriate, given what so many Jews support? I think it is. Let’s call a spade a spade.

That he was engaging in typically American behaviour. By extension I was making a further point that, assuming you have actively opposed such behaviour amongst your fellow Americans that [...]

I have experienced at first hand how you Americans behave towards sand nig*e*s and all the time mouthing lies about democracy and human rights. If you wish a domestic example I invite you to consider your country’s long and vile tradition of vigilante lynching. Once you have done that explain to me how the killer of Trayvon [...]

I disagree with you. The powerful 1% write U.S. policies. It is not the numbers of liberals that is the problem. The powerful moneyed interest groups, despite their imperatives not reflecting the interests nor the will of the majority, wield all the influence in Washington. And this not only affects our foreign policies, but our domestic [...]

Isn’t a little bit of traditional anti-semitism appropriate, given what so many Jews support? I think it is. Let’s call a spade a spade.

Traditional anti-semitism is nothing more nor less than the hatred and persecution of Jews because they are Jews and for no other reason. It is a despicable and evil thing and those [...]

I do not agree. There is a long and very dishonourable history of violent American liberal imperialism. I am not interested not even a little bit in whether an American imperialist is one of America’s so-called “liberals” or one of its so-called “conservatives” (it is not as if even in domestic policies that there are [...]

In all honesty all one has to do is look at how they behave to see that what they believe in is the “manifest destiny” of the United States of America and its regional frontman Israel. Also in all honesty the persistence of the American “left” in refusing to admit what is very plain indeed [...]