Denial aint just a river - (TO ALL) ...DO THE BODY COUNT
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Submitted by Truth Teller (United Kingdom), Oct 4, 2007 at 02:07

Shall we do the body count... shall we have a little dabble....ok let's start...

1. Aboriginal peoples of the Americas - 1490 onwards - a "string of genocide campaigns" by non-Muslim Europeans and their descendants; recorded as the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world (keep in mind Muslims had been travelling to the Americas intermarrying and trading here for 500 years without any genocide) - 100 million killed (80% of the population)

2. The Slave Trade – 1700 – 1865 – non-Muslim Europeans "perfect" using humans as chattels not merely in servitude; slaves have been used in the Muslim world but never as chattels and never as a figure for genocide; although small numbers of native Arab and Africans are involved in the selling of slaves, the killing and brutality is almost entirely a Western non-Muslim phenomenon; over 20% of the slaves taken to the USA are Muslims from West Africa – 20 million killed

3. Aboriginal peoples of Australia – early 1800s – non-Muslim British and Europeans almost completely wipe out the native peoples of Australia. The intentional displacement of aboriginal children and the eradication of the aboriginal civilisation was still practiced by the Australian government into the 1960s and 1970s – 4 million killed (over 90% of the population)

4. The Scramble for Africa – 1800s onwards – non-Muslim European powers (including Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal) divide up Africa into sections and commit wide scale genocide and atrocities. – 50 – 100 million killed

5. World War I – 1914 – 1918 - non-Muslim European powers wage war on each other and amongst others Muslim territories – 20 million killed

6. World War 2 – 1918 – 1945 – non-Muslim European powers wage war on each other and amongst others Muslim territories; notable because although the "Nazi Holocaust was among the most evil genocides in history… the Allies' firebombing of Dresden and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also war crimes" (Gregory H. Stanton president of Genocide Watch) – 50 million killed

7. Mao's regime in China – 1949 – 1975 – non-Muslim Chinese totalitarian regime commits atrocities including Labour Camps and ‘revolutions' – 30 – 50 million killed

Although this is far from exhaustive the point is made… we can count the Iran-Iraq war (perhaps 1 million dead) although we know that the Iraqi side was sponsored and armed by the US.

Don't do the body count... you seem hung up on 3,000 tragic deaths on 911… in 2004 there were 3,300 left dead in Haiti due to the floods, do you mourn for them too?

How many wars have been instigated by the CIA in South and Central America, what about British involvement in India, how about the USA murgering hoardes in Vietnam, Korea and the Philippines... oh and dont forget Iraq. Do everyone a favour, how about having a memory that puts everything in context.

Don't tell me its ancient history….. what EXACTLY is wrong with the non-Muslim Europeans? What is with the blood lust?

Whatever you do....don't do the body count...... You will lose.

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