Nice protests in Dearborn, MI...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5627457
Daily protests occur in Dearborn. At one recent demonstration, organized by the Congress of Arab-Americans, about 1,000 people attended. College-age men asked, in call and response fashion, "Who is your army?" Protestors responded: "Hezbollah." "Who is your leader?" they were asked. "Nasrallah," the chanters responded. Many carried placards of the Hezbollah leader. A few days earlier at an even larger demonstration, more than 15,000 turned out, about half of Dearborn's Arab community.
Those who regularly attend the demonstrations tend to be the most strident.
"Oh, Jews, remember Khaibar," the marchers chant. "The army of the Prophet will return."
The line is a reference to Khaibar, a Jewish town north of Medina that, according to Islamic tradition, was overtaken by the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. Once defeated, the surviving Jews of Khaibar were forced into serfdom. Two decades later, they were expelled from the Arabian peninsula.
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Isn't that lovely?
Daily protests occur in Dearborn. At one recent demonstration, organized by the Congress of Arab-Americans, about 1,000 people attended. College-age men asked, in call and response fashion, "Who is your army?" Protestors responded: "Hezbollah." "Who is your leader?" they were asked. "Nasrallah," the chanters responded. Many carried placards of the Hezbollah leader. A few days earlier at an even larger demonstration, more than 15,000 turned out, about half of Dearborn's Arab community.
Those who regularly attend the demonstrations tend to be the most strident.
"Oh, Jews, remember Khaibar," the marchers chant. "The army of the Prophet will return."
The line is a reference to Khaibar, a Jewish town north of Medina that, according to Islamic tradition, was overtaken by the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. Once defeated, the surviving Jews of Khaibar were forced into serfdom. Two decades later, they were expelled from the Arabian peninsula.
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Isn't that lovely?
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Anyone can lose a war when the terms of victory are completely warped by one's opponent.
Exactly.
Let's say I decide to throw myself in front of a bus. I do so, and I get bounced off the bumper. I survive. I am pretty scraped up, of course, but I am alive, I still have limbs and a head, I still have most of my mental faculties. It did hurt a lot, though. Is it reasonable to argue that I just took on a bus and somehow WON something?
I guess it would be, if the bus was my dire enemy, hated by a whole bunch of other people who are anti-bus, and thus predisposed to say that I somehow won something. "Yeah, dude ... You showed that bus! No bus can truly defeat one of the chosen!". I could win some sort of political victory against the bus, assuming that people were dumb enough to believe that my survival = some kind of victory.
Damn that Zionist bus!
which are you asking is the lovely part? the protests or the jewish expulsion from the arabian peninsula? or both?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Ummm...the protests.