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    Policemen beheaded by Taliban militants

    Don't you just love these guys? And they claim Islam is a religion of peace.

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    One of the moderators on here really wrecks my head with his/her power mad ego
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    The Taliban are tribal (Pushton) nationalists, as well as religious fanatics. Its a very dangerous combination (just look at our own island's history for starters)

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    How about if the title read: Vichy policemen assasinated by members of the Resistance.

    Get a perspective dude!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    How about if the title read: Vichy policemen assasinated by members of the Resistance.

    Get a perspective dude!
    Seven men hacked to death by crazed extremists. YOU get a prespective, 'dude'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    How about if the title read: Vichy policemen assasinated by members of the Resistance.

    Get a perspective dude!
    So you want Afghanistan to go back to when women and girls had to dress in the burka and were forbidden education do you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    How about if the title read: Vichy policemen assasinated by members of the Resistance.
    Then I'd say, shouldn't they have been out killing German soldiers, instead of killing their own people? Isn't it cowardly to attack soft targets like that? What will killing Vichy policemen achieve? If it causes all collaborators to resign, then the German armed forces will enforce German rule directly, removing the softening buffer the Vichy police provide, and battle hardened German troops, many of whom will be wounded men transferred back from the Eastern Front (where local civilians are wiped out in revenge for partisan attacks), are going to be far more brutal than the Vichy police were.

    Killing German soldiers shortens the war. Killing Vichy policemen doesn't, and risks harming French civilians in the long run. Only cowards with a blood lust would do such a thing - men too afraid to take on the Germans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aindriu
    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    How about if the title read: Vichy policemen assasinated by members of the Resistance.

    Get a perspective dude!
    So you want Afghanistan to go back to when women and girls had to dress in the burka and were forbidden education do you?

    Plank!
    Get a grownup to explain to you what I wrote as you seem unable to comprehend it yourself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    Quote Originally Posted by Aindriu
    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    How about if the title read: Vichy policemen assasinated by members of the Resistance.

    Get a perspective dude!
    So you want Afghanistan to go back to when women and girls had to dress in the burka and were forbidden education do you?

    Plank!
    Get a grownup to explain to you what I wrote as you seem unable to comprehend it yourself.
    Why dont you explain it yourself?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPN
    Get a grownup to explain to you what I wrote as you seem unable to comprehend it yourself.
    The thread title ("Policemen beheaded by Taliban Militants") is written in basically a neutral tone. Your analogy indicated that the Taliban are the good guys, and the policemen are collaborating with an evil occupying power (akin to the Third Reich). It also implied that beheading is no different to "assassinating" by shooting.

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    You can't condemn a whole religion or nation based on the activities of a few crackpots.

    Take this guy. Lifelong Catholic but I don't see him being used to condemn Catholicism everywhere:


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