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How do I read that? My computer is freaking the fuck out trying.

Should have been able to just convert it back to a .chum file via renaming. I'm... fairly sure I uploaded a .txt? 235kb, jackfinishmk1.txt. Really should have specified that, but I think I was sleepy at that point.

Though, ah. When I go to export, all I get is "squad manager", nothing about html. Trys to save it as a .xml file which... might work?

There were Nigerian janitors working at my office for a while who said they don't listen to music because they think it's the devil.

And suddenly the mind goes, "Now, you may not know it, but I'm a fiddle player, too..."

Think this is done. Mostly. There's... probably something blaringly wrong with it*. But I think that's more or less in order. Providing one of the parts of the books I skimmed over didn't have something utterly vital in it, heh.

*E: Besides it being more than a little non-optimized and probably more than a wee titch low on actual, y'know, drones and such. That's somewhat intentional... I think.

Almost there, yarble. Just need to figure out what cyber-junk a rigger needs and finish hammering out the backstory.

Islam might sort of contribute to an attitude hostile to the west because afaik, Islam moreso then other religions, makes a lot of promises about wealth and physical things in return for faithfulness, so the disparity in prosperity, technology and material things between the middle east and the western world is likely a source of envious contention in many believers.

Other then that, it's more about secularism vs mysticism. Modern civilization was based primarily on the former, science and rational thought. Religion is seen more as a minor personal decision. This simply isn't the case in many places in the world, especially the middle east.

Ah... actually, from what I understand, the largest contribution (though not the only, of course) to the whole hostility towards the west thing has been, well, the west. Quite a few of the western powers (the states especially, but we're far from alone there) having been taking successive and sometimes quite large dumps all over that entire region for... quite a while now. S'a lot of folks over there with seriously good reasons to be royally pissed off at a fair number of the (post) industrialized powers

From what I've been poking at Islam scripture lately that mixed with parts of the Quran probably isn't helping, yeah. As I mentioned earlier, it's got a bit of a thing re: oppression, and as a kind of general thing the western world has been fitting itself pretty damn comfortably into that niche. It's kind of a sailed boat, but it's a interesting thing to wonder what would have happened if the period between the British Empire (or earlier... t'be honest, I'm entirely certain where the mostly one-way buggering began.) and now wasn't filled with quite so many examples of us westerners meddling where we seriously shouldn't have been.

Think he was talking about Mecca more than population, GG. Which would probably roughly equate to saying Jerusalem is the center of Christianity as a whole, I think.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for
 they will be called Sons of God"

"[...]whoever pardons and makes reconciliation - his reward is [due] from Allah. [...] (42:40)

You... actually responded to that post. That pretty much specifically says "Peacemakers are rewarded by God."

The short form is made big promises and then dipped suddenly with little explanation (sufficient or not depends on th'way you look at it, heh) and many of said promises unfulfilled. Think one of the more recent rehashes of the whole thing was back around page 623, in default page count. Somewhere around post 9315 or a bit after that. It's come up a few times in the thread, I do believe.