The US Defence Department lacks any sense of Humor

[Deathblane]

Ok so the US defence department is given $7 million to have a look at how Islamic militants are using new technologies as a recrutement tool. This is what they came up with.

Originally on Reuters

As the story circulated doubts began to set in over the footage from Battlefield 2. Was it indeed a piece of Terrorist propoganda or did the phrase
"I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in their Blackhawk helicopters" sound oddly familiar?.....

Here's the video in question.

[Zoombie]

Yeah...yeah...

They need to take a 'chill pill'.

[Drone_Fragger]

And on the subject of mods:
My daily rant.

Who was that idoit who got GTA's ESRB raised because of mods?

Its this kind of shit that pisses me off.

"YOU COULD USE A COMPLETLY UNSUPPORTED, UNOFFICAIL MOD TO TURN A SIMPLE SONIC GAME INTO A GAME WHERE YOU HAVE HOT SECHS WITH A ROCK"

Jesus christ. Mods: UNOFFICAIL MODIFICATIONS.

[Forboding Angel]

Actually the gta thing was built into the game by the devs. All the mod thing did was enable it.

[SinbadEV]

YOU could have unlocked the hot coffee mod with thousands of hours of obsesive gameplay... it was apparently unlocked by just maxing out the relationship score with all of the female characters or something dumb like that... not a mod...

[BlackLiger]

/me points out http://www.americasarmy.com and cites the hypocrasy act of the internet parliment of 2000

[Zoombie]

eh. I think that what the hell, its not going to stop me from playing. And you know what makes these bills fail? By refusing to stop playing your games, and to keep doing what you love. No law on this earth can stop humains from being free (At least not for too long...well not really. Actually many laws can stop you from being free. But if you survive for long enough a despotic goverment useualy collapses in on itself. Then usuwaly ANOTHER despotic goverment takes controll, but damn its an annoying world)

[PauloMorfeo]

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Originally on Reuters
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... The underlying propaganda message, officials say, is that the United States is waging a crusade against Islam in order to control Middle Eastern oil, and that Muslims should fight to protect Islam from humiliation.
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Well, if they are so concerned with «crusades», Bush shouldn't be using it in it's speeches which are carefully writen to the letter by specialists.

If you don't remember, in one of his speeches, he used it a few times. It got to be known because that is very offensive to the middle-east area and leads to that very same thinking, of US waging a crusade against Islam. At the time, Bush was accused of, either intentionally or unintentionally, using that as extra inflaming of Islamic's hate towards US.

To us, the hapenings of the crusades seems very far away, but for the regions of the old crusades, the stuff that hapened there were so cruel that, even today, people use remarks to it in they're comon language and speaking. At least as far as i've heard some specialists explain.

Read (or see and hear) about that part of history and learn how, due to many circunstances like thirst, hunger, hate, etc, piles of bodies of mans, kinds, women of an entire city ended up piled in the streets, how they ended up comiting canibalism, et cetera, et cetera.


The dark ages. When the musslins saw every people as son of god (Ala) which deserved to have it's soul saved, believing in Ala or not, while the cristians saw the musslins as condemned creatures to hell deserving of nothing. They had sciences, poetry, etc, we had nothing, all lost in the fall of the roman empire.
How things have changed...
History, sometimes, is a very interesting thing.

[Deathblane]

To be honest, I was mearly pointing out the halarity of the 'establishment' not noticing that this piece of 'terrorist propoganda' began with a quote from a film that was itself a giant parody of the war on terror.

But oh well :)

[Deathblane]

The dark ages. When the musslins saw every people as son of god (Ala) which deserved to have it's soul saved, believing in Ala or not, while the cristians saw the musslins as condemned creatures to hell deserving of nothing. They had sciences, poetry, etc, we had nothing, all lost in the fall of the roman empire.
How things have changed...
History, sometimes, is a very interesting thing.

European civilisation had actually left the dark ages by the time of the first crusade (one of the prime causes being the stabalisation of the European kingdoms and the regrowth of civilisation).
Whilst it is certainly true that western europe had not regained everything lost in the fall of the western Roman empire it should be noted that the eastern Roman empire (aka Byzantium) was at it's height, after the conquests of Basil II and shortly before the begining of the first crusade.[/quote]

[Soulless1]

To be honest, I was mearly pointing out the halarity of the 'establishment' not noticing that this piece of 'terrorist propoganda' began with a quote from a film that was itself a giant parody of the war on terror.

But oh well :)

Team America?

[Zoombie]

Yeah, in my opinion, the crusades were one of the more pointless wars. Up there with the cold war (communisem has a way of implodeing, or so I have noticed). So a repeat of the crusades would not be a good thing. Some of my more relligious freinds say that the crusades were caused because the muslims invaded the holy land. But didn't they invade the holy land like...a hundred or so years BEFORE the crusades? To start a war over something that happened so long ago is compleatly pointless.

However like all war, the crusades actually had SOME good points. They opened up trade routes, stabilized Europe a bit and actually helped usher in the rennecance. go figure...