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That was a really good post. It's refreshing to see a muslim on a forum who's not the stereotypical anti-zionist nutjob.

It's only taken china a hundred years more than Europe, and Korea well over fifty. Japan was one the only Asian nation to actually have caught the original industrialisation boat in the 19th century.

Not really. Western society started to advance in leaps and bounds about four hundred years ago and the Jews, who lived in many western nations, most specifically Germany, managed to get towards the forefront. And yeah, the Muslim world is still quite planted in the third world, and what money...

Congratulations, you've discovered the fact that Jews have tended to be at the fore-front of technology, science and psychology for the last two-hundred years. It helps to be from advanced Western nations when it comes to studying in Nobel Prize area subjects, something which Muslims really...

No, I believe they and were Ossetians in Georgia, and are Ossetians. But the fact of the matter is that they're just as much Georgian as they are Russian. They're a distinct cultural and racial group, and in this instance they're leaning towards the Russians because it suites their politcal...

Yet, many of these "citzens" haven't been to Russia, and only a very few were even born there, and almost none have lived there. There people are hardly "citizens" in the general sense of the word. They're only technically citizens due to their passport, but in reality they're Georgian...

Ossetic, though, isn't related to Russian at all. Well, it is in the way that it was from the same linguistic branch millenia ago, but it's not related to modern Russian beyond the distant ancestory. And the Russian nation is the nation primarily inhabited by Eastern Slavs known as Russians...

As much as I usually am respectful in a debate, the only perspective that is from is an idiotic one. I am talking about the Russian ethnic and linguistic group. The North Ossetians are citizens of the nation of Russia, but they're not ethnically Russian. South Ossetians are also citizens of...

Jew Watch has made me laugh for at least two years now :D

The Ossetians are a unique ethnic and cultural group. Not what I consider them to be, what they are. That's stupid. It's like saying, if they speak English, then there is little difference between then and everyone else that speaks English.

That's lovely and all, but the Ossetians aren't Russian in the slightest sense of the term. The "Russians" for whom it is being made easier to immigrate and gain citizenship are ethnic Russians. Germany has a similar program, which it only extends to ethnic Germans. Ossetians have been part...

You see nothing wrong with offering a passport en masse to citizens of a foreign nation? It's simple. The Russians did this just so they would have a constitutional and legitimate reason to attack the Georgians should they try to push into South Ossetia. The Russian's did it a while back because...

The Russians handed out 45,000 passports after offering all 70,000 South Ossetians citizenship. It's not a matter of a few foreign nationals here. "More than half of South Ossetia's 70,000 citizens are said to have taken up Moscow's offer of Russian citizenship. Russia says its actions were...

It's been widely referenced in the news and BBC reports. So much so, I've never bothered to look it up. It's just one of those facts. As both are nominally independent now, it's hardly an occupation but rather a willing garrison. Though, South Ossetia will become part of Russia soon. If...

Haha that was a great post. Russians are chronic alcoholics, substance abusers, with small penises that they can't get up. That's assuming they can even get enough food to get the energy to have sex. As a result they compensate with tanks and submarines. :)

Scroll up the page man, or the one beforehand. It's on one of the two. That's what it implied to you, maybe. I just stated it at one time occupied a third of the nation. I also said they withdrew. Anything else you got out of it was your own personal thing. Nothing does justify it. I'm just...

It seems like a slick, well spoken and well modelled talk that has at most a very slanted view.

I already have. In posts on this page. And throughout the thread. Nominally it did, which is what is counted. The same Switzerland that gave women the right to vote in the 70's? That progressive one? Look, I'm an amatuer historian. I love history, and most specifically the Second World...

No, I didn't. I said that it deserves partial responsibility, but not as much as Georgia. Unless you're looking at the conflict from a completely pro-Russian point of view, it's clear Russia has done far more than just had it's citizens attacked out of the blue. ...yes, but at the time they...

I never said the Russians were worse than the Georgians, infact, I'm really quite impressed with how they conducted the war in regards to civillian casualties, which never has been a Russian strongsuit. And, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia briefly controlled roughly a third, but...