>>>>>>No it isn't. The guy's just another fanatical nutjob muslim, and no one take him seriously.
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>>>>>>Tell that to the people who have been murdered or tortured under his rule.
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>>>>>That only reinforces my point. No one is going to take a "president" seriously when his country murdere and/or tortures its citizens.
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>>>>Standard procedure in North Korea.
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>>>>Seems they take dear leader quite seriously.
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>>>There was a recent long article in The New Yorker about North Korea. Holy moley. I knew it was bad but didn't know it's this bad.
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>>>I was going to post the article, by Barbara Demick, but all they have on their site is an abstract; the full article is available online only to subscribers.
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>>It's pretty amazing what you can do if you control all media and education and you eliminate all dissidents for half a century.
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>>Not much different from Islam in large areas of the world BTW.
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>I am NOT going to (re)join the debate. Just wanted to point out that only 20% of the world's Muslims live in Arab countries. (Some of those, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, are as you describe). Did you know that? The other 80% are in various places including Indonesia and some African countries.

Yep. Pretty much all hotbeds of religious tolerance and freedom.