From: "Mark" 

Thank goodness that Bush put up Roberts. His surprisingly (and thankfully)
candid answer as to the question on whether the Supremes should cite and
use foreign law in their decisions for our country, was a resounding NO.


He used the example of looking out into a crowd and recognizing only those
in same crowd that were friends and using only their viewpoints.
Paraphrasing: he said that once one wants to support a position and use
other than our constitution to do so, one can pick and choose from an
endless array of countries until one finds the ones that support the
position -- it's BS >

If the dopes on there now keep edging toward their PC "check the
world" first shenanigans, they'll be using Iranian laws to invoke
Islam on us -- sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Wanna bet your freedom on
their not getting carried away?

Sounds like Roberts (and hopefully the next nominee) will keep them in check


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:4327a158{at}w3.nls.net...
> That's also why a separation of church and state is so necessary in this
> country. By their very nature of 'true' belief and intense desire to save
> us all Christianity and Islam can easily  be hijacked by fanaticism
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:43279f62$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I saw some stuff on this about a week ago, but this article provides a lot
>> more detail.  I think my comment at the time was "ah Islam,
the religion
>> of
>> peace".
>>
>> I'm not sure if there will be any solution for decades to come.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Ellen K."  wrote in message
>> news:mc7fi1dj2sjdennvg083nuaefb2oblev07{at}4ax.com...
>>> Christianity Dying in Its Birthplace
>>>
>>> by Daniel Pipes
>>> New York Sun
>>> September 13, 2005
>>> http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2937
>>>
>>> What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West
>>> Bank, on the night of September 3-4. That's when 15 Muslim youths from
>>> one village, Dair Jarir, rampaged against Taybeh, a neighboring
>>> all-Christian village of 1,500 people.
>>>
>>> The reason for the assault? A Muslim woman from Dair Jarir, Hiyam Ajaj,
>>> 23, fell in love with her Christian boss, Mehdi Khouriyye, owner of a
>>> tailor shop in Taybeh. The couple maintained a clandestine two-year
>>> affair and she became pregnant in about March 2005. When her family
>>> members learned of her condition, they murdered her. That was on about
>>> September 1; unsatisfied even with this "honor
killing"  for Islamic
>>> law strictly forbids non-Muslim males to have sexual relations with
>>> Muslim females  the Ajaj men sought vengeance against Khouriyye and his
>>> family.
>>>
>>> They took it two days later in an assault on Taybeh. The Ajajs and their
>>> friends broke into houses and stole furniture, jewelry, and electrical
>>> appliances. They threw Molotov cocktails at some buildings and poured
>>> kerosene on others, then torched them. The damage included at least 16
>>> houses, some stores, a farm, and a gas station. The assailants
>>> vandalized cars, looted extensively, and destroyed a statue of the
>>> Virgin Mary.
>>>
>>> "It was like a war," one Taybeh resident told the
Jerusalem Post. Hours
>>> passed before the Palestinian Authority security and fire services
>>> arrived. The 15 assailants spent only a few hours in police detention,
>>> then were released. As for Khouriyye, the Palestinian Arab police
>>> arrested him, kept him in jail, and (his family says) have repeatedly
>>> beat him.
>>>
>>> As the news service Adnkronos International notes, for Palestinian
>>> Christians "the fact that the Muslim aggressors have been
released while
>>> the Christian tailor-shop owner is still being held, at best symbolizes
>>> the PA's indifference to the plight of Palestinian Christians, at worst
>>> shows it is taking sides against them."
>>>
>>> A cousin, Suleiman Khouriyye, pointed to his burned house.
"They did
>>> this because we're Christians. They did this because we are the weaker
>>> ones," he said The Khouriyyes and others recall the
assailants shouting
>>> "Allahu Akbar" and anti-Christian slogans:
"Burn the infidels, burn the
>>> Crusaders." To that, an unrepentant cousin of Hiyam Ajaj
replied, "We
>>> burned their houses because they dishonored our family, not because they
>>> are Christians."
>>>
>>> This assault fits a larger pattern. According to the Catholic Custodian
>>> of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Christians in the Bethlehem
>>> region alone have suffered 93 cases of injustice in 2000-04. In the
>>> worst of these, in 2002, Muslims murdered the two Amre sisters, 17 and
>>> 19 years old, whom they called prostitutes. A post-mortem, however,
>>> showed the teenagers to have been virgins  and to have been tortured on
>>> their genitals.
>>>
>>> "Almost every day  I repeat, almost every day  our communities are
>>> harassed by the Islamic extremists in these regions," Mr.
Pizzaballa
>>> says. "And if it's not the members of Hamas or Islamic
Jihad, there are
>>> clashes with  the Palestinian Authority." In addition to
the Islamists,
>>> a "Muslim land mafia" is said to operate. With PA
complicity, it
>>> threatens Christian land and house owners, often succeeding to compel
>>> them to abandon their properties.
>>>
>>> The campaign of persecution has succeeded. Even as the Christian
>>> population of Israel grows, that of the Palestinian Authority shrinks
>>> precipitously. Bethlehem and Nazareth, historic Christian towns for
>>> nearly two millennia, are now primarily Muslim. In 1922, Christians
>>> outnumbered Muslims in Jerusalem; today, Christians amount to a mere 2%
>>> of that city's population.
>>>
>>> "Is Christian life liable to be reduced to empty church
buildings and a
>>> congregation-less hierarchy with no flock in the birthplace of
>>> Christianity?" So asks Daphne Tsimhoni in the Middle East
Quarterly. It
>>> is hard to see what will prevent that ghost-like future from coming into
>>> existence.
>>>
>>> One factor that could help prevent this dismal outcome would be for
>>> mainline Protestant churches to speak out against Palestinian Muslims
>>> for tormenting and expelling Palestinian Christians. To date,
>>> unfortunately, the Episcopalian, Evangelical Lutheran, Methodist, and
>>> Presbyterian churches, as well as the United Church of Christ, have
>>> ignored the problem.
>>>
>>> Instead, they pursue the self-indulgent path of venting moral outrage
>>> against the Israeli bystander and even withdrawing their investment
>>> funds from it. As they obsess with Israel but stay silent about
>>> Christianity dying in its birthplace one wonders what it will take to
>>> awaken them.
>>>
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