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KORAN ENCOURAGING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ? UMM, AGAIN SUPERFICIAL

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Submitted by SMJ (Australia), Mar 26, 2010 at 15:33

How about the prevalence of conspiracy theories in the US and Europe ? The vast majority in these countries is not even religious, let alone Muslim or having any belief in Koran. Thanks to the media, there is, if anything, paranoia and hatred of these words in the west. If you believe in the public polls (let's be rational and scientific, you know), conducted by reputed international survey companies, then it might interest you to know that almost half of the New York city's population questioned in 2004 believed that the 9/11 attacks were either directly caused or allowed to happen by the US government. How do you relate that to your claim and theory of Koran? How about butchering of Jews throughout Europe and particularly in the pre- war Germany on the grounds that they were plotting to control the world? Were these paranoid Europeans Muslims or had any connection with Koranic teachings ? ...

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Title Commenter Date Thread
Conspiracy Theories in Iran's Unrest [194 words]HCNov 9, 2009 14:58164279
Conspiracy Theories - Too complex to Comment [356 words]SMJMar 26, 2010 13:08164279
Conspiracy Theories in Iran's Unrest [345 words]HCMar 26, 2010 21:14164279
CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN IRAN [259 words]SMJMar 29, 2010 21:50164279
2Independent thinking is the enemy of the islamist. [16 words]Phil GreendAug 26, 2009 08:32160653
Escobar on Iran [46 words]Jerry WeissmanJun 30, 2009 16:51158268
Conspiracy Theories in Iran [58 words]S.C.PandaJun 30, 2009 04:27158228
Conspiracy Theories. [27 words]M.D'SouzaJun 29, 2009 15:37158211
kuran and conspiracies [121 words]G.VishvasJun 29, 2009 13:50158209
KORAN ENCOURAGING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ? UMM, AGAIN SUPERFICIAL [156 words]SMJMar 26, 2010 15:33158209
Not only the kuran [299 words]G.VishvasMar 30, 2010 06:17158209
Iranian People don't know [317 words]HJun 29, 2009 08:54158188
Manipulating minds [118 words]John BJun 29, 2009 06:33158182
Glad to know we're so important.... [109 words]Shaun PilkingtonJun 29, 2009 06:09158181

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