football is at least tolerable if both the teams have a decent skill

cricket only gets somewhat interesting if they recently refurbished the stadium and there is still some paint drying on the sideboards

it is a horrible idea; not only would it invite and even institutionalise corruption, it would also handicap independent candidates and small parties further

the problem with islam is not so much direct violence against disbelievers, it is indeed prohibited by the quran to fight against peaceful disbelievers although it is not very clear when you are "fighting" believers (I think most muslims would count say missionary activities or even building a non-muslim house of worship on muslim territory under this); although slaying such disbelievers is not a sin that would preclude you from going to paradise (unlike killing a believer); the biggest problem is however the lack of separation between church and state; it is problematic for muslims to share political powers with disbelievers since they're not supposed to be too friendly or allied to them according to several passages of the quran, disbelievers can only enjoy a secondary status in muslim societies (and muslims are even supposed to strive against them - 25:52); it is also quite problematic that disbelievers are bascially equated with wrong-doers in the quran and that they will be actively punished by allah for disbelieving, since that provides a further basis to limit their standing in muslim society; the end result are discriminations that slowly strangle religious minorities into non-existence

ah I see he discovered it during the wedding night lol, but then that is only convenient for this case since the principle can be applied in other cases with less convenient dates

grushdeva there are belgian decisions involving mistaken identities in marriage, mostly regarding handicapped people

I agree that this decision should be quashed, but this is typical multicultural reasoning and it's possible it ends up on the desk of people with a similar mindset as the first judge clearly had

sick

of course the programme is a "clever" marketting that's going to be justified as aiming for a "shock effect" and "you're talking about it and that was the intention"

but none of that changes the fact that it's sick...

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"They win again, and again, because they have superior air support -- and their soldiers have superior training. This is logical.

Although, there was a time when Egypt could have walloped Israel...Luckily Syria, Egypt's trusted ally, fudged that up for them ."

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as sad as that is Israel definatly needs nuclear weapons. the reason why it is still out there is not so much because it is somehow intrinsically superior or supported by divine favour, but because of US support and the many shortcomings of its neighbours

given the right conditions israel would lose and the only question would be how soon or how hard it would lose

therefor the only true guarantee for israel's survival are nuclear weapons, this is even true if its neigbhours also get nuclear weapons; to paraphrase what de gaulle rightfully said when comparing france's measly nuclear forces against the USSR's, what matters not is having more nuclear weapons than your opponents, but to be able to do enough damage to discourage your opponent from attacking

the most serious gaffe of them all hasn't been included: the fact that he wouldn't mind invading pakistan

strictly speaking the act of censorship is to examine and remove material prior to its publication, ie to prevent the circulation - that is also how it is used in that article of the belgian constitution, but I suppose in common day language it can also be used more broadly as supressing information