The million that died under the sanctions, or the ones that are alive now? I thought of you and stuck ‘better the devil you know’ on too. Mmmmm Kylie..

British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.

Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here….

Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move.

“This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers,” he said.

However, the move brought accusations of political correctness gone mad from critics.

“The next thing we will be banning Christmas trees and cribs and the logical result of that process is a bland uniformity,” the Dean of Blackburn, Reverend Christopher Armstrong, said.

“We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them.”

Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.

“We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,” Mr Mahmoud said.

“I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks.”

Well, I hope not. But banned they are nevertheless: this must have been done to please someone.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/008691.php

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That isn’t what i said at all. in the context of the cold war, we cosied up to Saddam. In hindsight that was regrettable but probably necessary at the time. That is not the ‘pretext of career diplomacy’ as you call it. It’s the pretext of national security. And again, Rumsfeld was a representative of the US Gov, while GG was simply lining his pockets under the pretext of giving a shit about iraqi children.

Calumny and greasing dictatorial thugs are OK if called for under the pstronage of State and with the pretext of career diplomacy. Either way, its shameful and well you know it.

Well if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

PapaHomer – well al-qaeda is not a tight and well organised group, as we all very well know. Anyone who think its a strongly organised group is being naive.

So my point is, there have always been plenty of AQ supporters over the years. But like any terror organisation, it does not get support unless there is a conflict going on. Then it can convince people that in the “war on terror”, where you are either with GW Bush, or against him, that the people from AQ are doing something right.

What I’m saying is, many more become brainwashed into believing that in this global conflict they should support AQ against the Americans. That is the problem. Without that, it would easier to isolate AQ, expose them for who they are, and pull the carpet from under their feet.
In Algeria for example, a while back, the Islamists went overboard with their campaign and public support completely dissolved and the govt cracked down hard. The same is hard to do with AQ while they keep exploiting (and making worse) the conflict in Iraq. Not for the vast majority of Muslims, but the few who do get brainwashed.

Hey, I didn’t say that Sunny!

no, it’s a monkey