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Trump also is on the ball in this areas - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-signs-executive-order-on-crypto-digital-asset-stockpile.html President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to promote the advancement of cryptocurrencies in the U.S. and to work toward potentially developing a national digital asset stockpile.

It is coming, in fact my bank, SCB already use blockchain tech. for cross border remittances. They use stablecoins now but a few years back used XRP for remittances between Japan and Thailand. US and Mexico also had/have such a corridor using XRP. Also, a Former Finance Minister who told me personally that everything will be digital very soon.

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Damn, I remember how big a hero he was in 1996. I remember meeting him when I was in Khon Kaen and he seemed like a nice, humble guy. I heard from a reliable source, he is NOT going to jail, which isn't at all surprising if you know the police in that area.

What about the percentages of those who have fled Afghanistan? You'll find that very different; the one who are other religions or non practising Muslims. It's weird the number I talk to who say they are not affiliated with a religion, despite coming from a Christian country, yet brand all those from a Muslim country fanatics or fundamentalists, bizarre.

You are joking I hope? What you write is intolerant and discriminatory nonsense that goes against the fundamental principles of equality, freedom, and non-discrimination which we have in both the UK and US Constitutions. What else do you suggest, forcing Hindus to eat Beef or other religions bacon? As an immigrant yourself, I truly hope you are making a poor attempt at humour only.

Do you think these terrorist groups were formed in a vacuum or was there some kind of resistance to foreign invasion/occupation/Colonialism?

There is at Hua Hin hospital premium clinic. I make sure I read it carefully as they usually try to charge me the foreigner price when I'm actually Thai.

You miss my original point. I was trying to emphasize that barbarism, intolerance/extremism are not unique to one religion, ideology, or culture. They are human things that can appear in various forms across different times/places. It's important to address these issues rather than framing them as exclusive to a single group. If the far right were doing what?

The adage that comes to my mind is "Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue". There is no need for the Trump administration to pay that compliment anymore, they don't have to be hypocritical, they just say what they feel. They don't have to be Fascist, they can get anything they want and do anything they want already through Congress and Senate, and judges who were chosen Constitutionally in the Supreme court. Dems don't have the right to denigrate/cancel those who they disagree with, call them hillbillies, rednecks etc.

Excuse for what?

I do not appease and revere this ideology! I agree with you Islam is behind Christianity by a few hundred years. Mind you, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness by the American Psychiatric society in the 1970s! https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hide-and-seek/201509/when-homosexuality-stopped-being-a-mental-disorder#:~:text=Key points,fall out of the DSM. Cultures change. I was making a point by someone quoting the Quran.

Hmm, that site is owned by Steve Killelea, who says. Fewer terrorism deaths in the West In 2023, the US accounted for 76% of terrorism-related deaths in Western democracies, amid a 15-year low in incidents. Terrorism incidents in Western democracies recorded a drop of 55% compared to the previous year. There were 23 attacks that resulted in 21 fatalities, marking a 15-year low. However, the US recorded 76% of these fatalities from seven attacks. Five of these attacks were linked to individuals with far-right beliefs yet none had an affiliation with a far-right group. Ten countries account for most deaths Terrorist activity remains highly concentrated in a small number of countries, with just ten countries accounting for 87% of all terrorism deaths in 2023. These include Burkina Faso, Israel, Mali, Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria, Myanmar, and Niger. https://defsec.net.nz/2024/05/31/global-terrorism-index-2024/

That's as ridiculous as saying all Christians take these words to heart about infidels. Deuteronomy 13:6-10 "If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods' ... do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God."

I could quote similar things from your lot! Like the Word of God given to Moses? Deuteronomy 20:16-18: "However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them. Numbers 31:17-18: "Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."

Same as us lot here, many are using agents to bribe immigration officers to bypass immigration requirements.

Nothing wrong with that, you and I have emigrated for a better life.

Shame on you for posting such off topic quotes in an attempt to insult all Muslims. I would have thought it is against forum rules

US, Occupation, Pipeline, Al Queda formation reason, Middle East. Come on man, it's not a hard puzzle to fit together. I never said it was colonized although some say it was. Al Queda was not formed in a vaccuum.

Unbelievable how you can be so naive and brainwashable.

Lucky you! I had one when shaking the Dalai Lama's hand, and another when going to one of the few Brahma temples in India in Pushkar. But for another thread or forum 😉

Interesting, I plan to visit his town in South India this year and walk around the mountain there.

"Many misunderstandings and false beliefs about Christ will clear if you realize that there is no past or future Christ. To say that Christ was or will be is a contradiction in terms. Jesus was. He was a man who lived two thousand years ago and realized divine presence, his true nature. And so he said, 'Before Abraham was, I am.' He did not say, 'I already existed before Abraham was born.' That would have meant that he was still within the dimension of time and form identity. Thus, the man Jesus became Christ, a vehicle for pure consciousness. The second coming of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. If 'Christ' were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to you other than this: 'I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now.'"

Are you assuming he was Muslim?

I said nothing about terrorism. But, of course it is to do with Colonialism, to say otherwise confirms your bigotry.