I never made the claim that EVERY Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40 was responsible for the acts of terrorism listed above (although, for fun, list me a few positive social contributions that ANY group of violent extremists have

" "I believe there is no such thing as total and absolute pacifism". -- I have met total and absolute pacifists, so I cannot agree with that. If someone refuses to commit violence as a philosophy, and lives by that philosophy with such passion

My other point was that these women, brief though their reign was, demonstrated some level of power and political clout in a relatively primitive government by today's standards. It's not impossible to find examples of powerful political women in

My point was that power (such as it was) was largely passed in a female to female line for a period of about a hundred years. I guess it really IS too much to claim it was matriarchal. I'll retract that statement. Still, the fundamental point is

Well, I can't really argue with that. If we're going to have free license to define terms to suit a specific agenda, no argument for or against any value of X can be made. The author of the above article I quoted simply suggests why certain

Matriarchies _have_ existed in the past. During the 8th century of Japanese history, the ruling imperial was usually an empress. (Sorry everyone, I'm a Japanophile...) I thought maybe you would find this interesting Lucy: Quote from:

Regarding the quote... I guess this all depends on whether you consider wounding / maiming to be pacifism. There are differences between vigilantism and state administered capital punishment, and individual pacifism and social pacifism. A

Seems like it was written by a girl who got burned / caught. She seems to start off by saying it's not right to have an online fantasy when you are in a relationship, then goes into all the reasons why online relationships are bad. Those two

"To detail a car" means to clean and polish the surfaces and maybe add some cool decals or little equipment upgrades. You would also try to remove any scratches and other defects. I made my car look new and cool = I detailed my car.

So racial profiling is the same as covering children in napalm? Sorry, I think you're getting a little too emotional. Maybe you should focus on what we should do to prevent terrorism when the answer to every question above is d), and suggest a way