Dear SPQR,

You wrote;

“Belly –rather bravely, I thought—started this thread to criticize a “fatwa” which appeared on the Lebanese Muslim Association Facebook.”

No he didn't, he started this thread just so he could hop on a rather tired old hobby-horse and bang on about Muslims, and within a few posts he was into full swing.

“Remind me, in the final years maybe months before Western Civilization is forced to WAR against this RELIGION”

“I reject it totally, having mixed with many I can tell you we are despised, by second generation criminals
Tell me why even here honor killings and forced marriages take place.
Remind me why female butchers force FGM on innocent young kids.”

“Before WW2 many said Nazi Germany presented no danger.
And that the Japanese could not fight like westerners.”

“A time will come,probably has but we refused to see it, that no room for doubt exists.
This cult like thing,is heading this world for a war.”

There is nothing brave about him at all. He is very fearful or to use a more common vernacular, scared shitless of his imagined apocalypse being just around the corner and doing his best to spread this fear to others.

That is why this was so laughable - “Yes I pushed too hard. But men must sometimes. It in the end is us who die on the front line in wars.”

Not that you are above scaremongering tactics. A disowned posting on a Sydney Mosque's facebook page is equated to the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan? Yeah right.

Dear Belly,

You wrote; “My sabbatical continues.”

From wikipedia;
“Sabbatical or a sabbatical (from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos, from Hebrew shabbat, i.e., Sabbath, literally a "ceasing") is a rest from work, or a hiatus, often lasting from two months to a year.”

Not sure three days really cuts it but hey, each to his own.

And congratulations for cutting back on the 'I's and 'me's' even if it was only temporary. In fact your post of Saturday, 5 January 2013 6:53:33 AM reached Nirvana, completely devoid of either word (note it will not be included in the 9 posts you have allowed me to put up my sleeve, well actually now 7 after these two).

It was pretty obvious though that when Lexi wrote “I feel that we've wasted enough time on this thread. Better to simply move on.” any idea of carefully written posts or a faux sabbatical flew out the window. In an hour came your panicked reply which opened with probably the most disingenuous words written here to date; “Lets end the thread here.”

ROFL.

This was not written with any intent of letting the thread die; “But men must sometimes. It in the end is us who die on the front line in wars. Yet too it is us who in past wars received the white feather of cowardice, sent by women.”

Belly ol' son you are just becoming way too predictable. Perhaps the saying about old dogs and new tricks really does hold true.

csteele I happily am not like you.
You target me and my comments.
Yet in truth I cover a wide range of subjects.
While, you for the most part, get involved in threads such as this.
You tell me I post for my ego and that I keep threads alive by posting other than what I think.
Have you noticed?
I am far from the only poster to dislike/distrust you?
What do you think I should do?
Post only threads that praise your hobby horse?
Post uninteresting threads so no one will come.
Be assured, I distrust you, think firmly you are a tool of the subject of this thread.
You FOREVER, ended my friendship with two posters, but if you intend to try to drive me away, know you will fail.
Ordinary Australians, rough around the edges, must never let the truth die at the hands of such as you.
Education in your case is no measure of IQ.
8 year old holding that sign asking for our deaths, the one saying your dead are in hell ours are in heaven,more than NASTY?
Haunt me if you wish, I am uninterested in you and your thoughts.
And again question why inflict a creed we do not believe in, on us.
Than any woman, can defend a husband purchasing his wifes sex parts as a toy, baffles me.
Read the Koran, it is a book about making women secondary to men, just and only a book.

Belly,

Time to quit with the "you're trying to drive me away line" it's past it's use-by date, we've established already that it's a device you use to bop your opponents with - means nothing.

"You FOREVER ended my friendship with two posters...."

Belly, the fact that I find your views on this subject paranoid, immature and nauseating have nothing to do with csteele.

Not to mention your underhand style in which you habitually insert vague assertions and suspicions toward your opponents - none of which have any basis in truth.....I find that tactic rather lowly, and it's gone a good way to my losing respect for you.

If I had a friend in my daily life who revealed a desire to inflame antipathy and to denigrate a section of society for whatever reason, I'd speak up then too - regardless of what I had previously thought of them.

Dear Belly,

I thought you 'LOVED' opposing me.

All I have done is mimicked you, basically going tit for tat. You called me a bigot and I returned the favour, and on it went. I took the cue from your posts and whatever you were dishing out just got sent it back in much the same fashion.

However it did get a little hard to match the derogatory remarks you send toward myself and others.

Bullies generally can dish it out but rarely take it.

I invited you to dial it back very early in this thread, you instead escalated it.

If you think I have treated you unfairly compared to what you have served our way then make your case, otherwise no more whinging.

I don't often respond to you but if I do in other threads it will be starting from a reasonable basis. If you wish to engage civilly then that is what will be returned, if not I am up for more of the same. Your choice.

Dear Runner,

The only way to avoid ongoing harassment from Poirot is to play dumb. And you don't want to do that, do you. Ask them what they know about Islam. I can't, I'm so over them.