The Sermon on the Mount is the more accurate dictate for Christianity and it's values.

Just over 6,000 corpses have been taken to the Baghdad morgue this year and most of those since the bombing of the mosque.

The problem with mass hysteria demonising one man as responsible for all the ills is that we are only relying on the US - the very same fools who said we had to blow up Iraq because they had WMD.

The other problem, gloating over one man's death, is that next time the death could be yours.

Marilyn Shepherd,

Getting close!

Far as ever from the truth ... in any balanced sense Marilyn.

WMD they 'did' have them, the PILOT OF THE PLANE WHICH TOOK THEM TO SYRIA has already made this known, and is on record..do some homework.

6000 corpses.. pales into insignificance compared to the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS murdered by Sadaam. Not to mention the gouging out of the eyes of children in front of parents etc and vice versa for having wrong political views. Get real. The area 'BY NATURE' is volatile and the only reason it had stability before was BRUTALITY by a minority (Sunni) against the militarily weaker 'Shia' and Kurd.

(P.S. The Kurds might reflect on their own massacres of the Assyrian Christians when they think of the Halabja gas attack "Judgement"?.)

MARGINAL NOTE "This is where Marylin reminds BD that 'USA' put Sadaam in power.

To which BD replies, "duh"

"Saddam consolidated power in a nation riddled with profound tensions. Long before Saddam, Iraq had been split along social, ethnic, religious, and economic fault lines: Sunni versus Shi'ite, Arab versus Kurd, tribal chief versus urban merchant, nomad versus peasant." (Wiki)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/aburish.html for a biography by an Arab.
an excerpt:

"Saddam Hussein borrowed from Stalinism. He had his security people trained in Eastern Europe, particularly East Germany. Then he brought them back to Iraq and he taught them how to use the tribal linkage to eliminate people."

Now..another excerpt supporting ur view:

"There is very good reason to believe that Saddam Hussein was in contact with the American embassy in Cairo when he was in exile. This is not strange, because alliances of convenience were taking place every day, and the United States was afraid that Iraq, under Kassem, might be going communist. So was the Ba'ath Party. So they had a common enemy, a common target -- the possibility of a communist take-over of Iraq.

Well gee whiz... the Yanks support those who are perceived to share their interests... what a revelation :)

dee,

What do you suggest the international community do about these nasty millions of Muslims strapping themselves with bombs and blowing themselves up? Should we ban Korans in Australia? Should we round up Muslims and lock them up?

What is your solution to the terrorist problem? Do tell.

Marilyn Shepherd – you continue to give figures without providing proof or sources.

Irf – I have never advocated locking up Muslims, as you well know, but I suggest that it may help Muslims if they were more honest and stopped the propaganda selling Islam as a religion of peace - hijacked by a ‘minority of extremists’ - this is wearing very thin.

Perhaps Muslims could begin to question the existing widespread mindset venerating suicide bombers. Perhaps Muslims could ask themselves why non-Muslim minorities are persecuted in every Islamic country; and why Muslim ‘leaders’ in every Western country condone hate literature and defiance of the laws of the host country?

Many Muslims no doubt wish to live in peace, but they cannot continue to bury their heads in the sand and present themselves as victims of ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’. The mainstream Arab media engages in the most extreme type of hatred and racism; bin Laden is a hero to millions of Muslims and al-qaeda continues to receive financing from many sources in the Islamic world, including ‘charities’. Christians kill, Jews kill, Hindus kill, but no other religion on this planet has embraced organized slaughter as Muslims have done.

Re: banning korans – a group in Germany is already campaigning on this issue. You mention banning the Koran, but you do not address the reasons why people would wish to do so. Are they just picking on Islam because they hate foreigners/other religions? If so, why not pick on Hindus? Or Chinese? Or do they genuinely feel threatened by a religion whose followers insist that their beliefs be accommodated at all costs, yet whose own religion is the most intolerant on earth? Nor do you mention the fact that Islamic countries ban the Bible and the wearing of crosses.

Your own attitude may explain why so many people are hostile to Islam. Western societies accommodate many religions, and the Koran has not been banned in any Western country, so perhaps you could explain to us why Islamic countries do not practice the same courtesy and respect regarding other religions.