Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:22:20 +0000 Message-ID: <877br8n5gj.fsf@parhasard.net> References: <10oj4iv$256in$7@dont-email.me> <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10okvro$2qvnj$1@dont-email.me> <10p7bp4$1g2jr$1@dont-email.me> <10p8ukd$1vi0v$9@dont-email.me> <10p9ti1$2c71i$1@dont-email.me> <10pantb$2kk45$1@dont-email.me> <10pc94h$36i8h$1@dont-email.me> <20260317123742.0000521e@gmail.com> <10pcu8n$3edfg$1@dont-email.me> <10pdspd$3mv8s$7@dont-email.me> <20260318122434.d7774816b147fba94b0b850c@127.0.0.1> <10pe83m$3rg2l$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="170263"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b36 (Linux-aarch64) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XwlwoJg3p7q6Dug9wuUHGRhPbbo= sha1:ezmXf5Nk5XKcqVcGZ7tmQeHVfyE= X-User-ID: eJwFwQERADEIAzBLK4wCcnhu9S/hk3CCm5fBGwp9CzP2+uT2UZU3Y8p63uAk2vUMMdoHgf4DE00Q0g== Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83400 alt.usage.english:1140032 Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh The Natural Philosopher: > [...] But real racism is 'Black lives matter' or the communism of Robert > Mugabe or Idi Amin. > > Or what goes on in Iran. Or Russia The Islamic Republic of Iran cares about Shia Islam. Iranians don’t much like Arabs, mostly for reasons that would, ceteris paribus, be termed racist in a Western European or North American context, but the Islamic Republic of Iran suppports Hezbollah and the Houthis because those profess Shia Islam, despite that Lebanon and Yemen are Arab countries. I am fully confident that if a community of Bosniaks, a community of the Central African Republic, or a community of Filipinos credibly professed Shia Islam, that the Islamic Republic of Iran would do what it could to aid them and that it would be unlikely to have a quarrel with them. If the US were to credibly embrace Shia Islam as a state religion, I am confident the current war would come to a quick end. I am aware that there are multiple systemic and cultural barriers within the US to this happening. -- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out / How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’ (C. Moore)