The most oppressed nation in the Middle East

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   I will tell you who are oppressed in the Middle East --Its easy anyone who isn't a Suuni Muslim male in Sunni Lands or a Shia Muslim male in Shia lands-- If you aren't the same relgion and a Man your screwed in the Middle East:

How about the women in Sadi Arabia. Lucky for them the Saud government is stepping in.

From the Economist Politics this week:

In an attempt to stop child marriages, Saudi Arabia began issuing wedding contracts in which the bride’s age must now be given. The move was prompted by cases of girls as young as eight being married off to much older men.

Or how about the Ahmadis

Heavily armed men stormed two mosques in the Pakistani city of Lahore, detonating bombs and killing more than 90 Ahmadis, members of a persecuted Muslim sect. Other gunmen attacked a hospital three days later, apparently trying to free one of the mosques’ attackers. Police blamed the “Punjabi Taliban”.

How about Justice that is oppressed:

A 48-year-old Somali begs for his life as he is partially
buried in preparation for stoning over adultery by an 
Islamic court.  (Needless-to-say, he wasn't successful).

Put the Numbers in Perspective

More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. (source)

Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. (source)

More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source)

19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years. (source)

You have to love the Liberal attitude in the Middle East--These are the guys the Shield of D defends?

But back to the Jews--Yes they mucked it all up, yes they were heavy handed, they could have handled this better but:

Harmony is not just a dream
Israel is caught in a vicious circle. The more its hawks think the outside world will always hate it, the more it tends to shoot opponents first and ask questions later, and the more it finds that the world is indeed full of enemies. Though Mr Netanyahu has reluctantly agreed to freeze settlement-building and is negotiating indirectly with Palestinians, he does not give the impression of being willing to give ground in the interests of peace.
Yet the prospect of a deal between Palestinians and Israelis still beckons. The contours of a two-state solution remain crystal-clear: an adjusted border, with Israel keeping some of the biggest settlements while Palestine gets equal swaps of land; Jerusalem shared as a capital, with special provisions for the holy places; and an admission by Palestinians that they cannot return to their old homes in what became Israel in 1948, with some theoretical right of return acknowledged by Israel and a small number of refugees let back without threatening the demographic preponderance of Jewish Israelis.
And what about Hamas, if Israel is to lift the siege of Gaza? How should Israel handle an authoritarian movement that refuses to recognise it and has in the past readily used terror? One answer is to ask the UN to oversee the flow of goods and people going in and out of Gaza. That is hardly a cure-all, but Hamas would become the world’s problem neighbour, not just Israel’s. The Arab world must do more, pressing Hamas to disavow violence, publicly pledge not to resume the firing of rockets at Israeli civilians and revoke its anti-Semitic charter. The West, led by Mr Obama, should call for Hamas to be drawn into negotiations, both with its rival Palestinians on the West Bank as well as with Israel, even if it does not immediately recognise the Jewish state. It is still the party the Palestinians elected in 2006 to represent all of them. None of this will be easy. But the present stalemate is bloodily leading nowhere.
Israel is a regional hub of science, business and culture. Despite its harsh treatment of Palestinians in the land it occupies, it remains a vibrant democracy. But its loneliness, partly self-inflicted, is making it a worse place, not just for the Palestinians but also for its own people. If only it can replenish its stock of idealism and common sense before it is too late. 