Posted on 07/24/2005 4:30:19 PM PDT by CO Gal
My only dilemma is when do we nuke Mecca. After we get nuked or before? Both have good arguments
The Vatican is currently not exhibiting a hate killing phase but certainly did in the past. The deaths by the current Islamic terrorist pale beside the massacres sanctioned by the Popes in Rome.
While it's a wonderful sentiment and I can only hope it to be true (and please do not think that I doubt your feelings), history and (re)actions of the Muslim community speaks volume. I never did and never will hold Islam close to my heart and since 9/11 I haven't seen one reason for which I should. I was born and raised in an Eastern European country which for centuries has suffered, along with other Balkan nations, at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. In recent years we all have seen the killings of innocent Serbians because of Bosnian and Albanian Muslims and a world unwilling to see Islam for what it is. In recent years we all have seen innocents being murdered in the name of Islam and it was the silence from the Muslim-American communities which was more deafening than the cries coming from the victims' families. So before you tell anyone that they have NO RIGHT in telling others to leave the country and in the same statement claiming you love everything we stand for remember this: freedom of speech is something guaranteed by our beloved Constitution. I do not hate Islam, I detest and abhor its principles. Allow me to end with a meaningful quote which, for me, defines Islam:
"The only reward of those who make war against Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be murdered or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom" Quran 5:33
That he did. If he runs for President in 2008, he's got my vote.
BTTT
America is not ignorant regarding Islam. we learned a great deal on 9/11!
Given 9/11, and recent history, the burden of proof is on Islam. in WW2, the Nisei, in spite of great difficulty and deportation, rose to the occasion. America is watching.
To be eligible, you would have to have been born here, and then elected.. No excpeptions.
They are not jihadist Arabs. This is because there was a Persian civilization, long before the hordes of Mohammed conquered it. Their Islam is filtered through over 2500 years of Persian civilization. The mullahs grip is growing tenuous. this is NOT the case in most other Muslim coutries
You have a good point that I totally agree with.
Didn't someone named Daniel Pearl think he could just sit down and talk with them like reasonable people? After all, we're all the same and want the same things right? The kind, passive, understanding approach was what was needed to UNDERSTAND them.
I think, in those terrible seconds when they were beheading him, he understood at last.
If THAT didn't get through to the 'understand them' crowd nothing will except their own executions.
I think it did tho. I think those who defend Islam here do so because they think our way of life SHOULD be destroyed and they see Islam as comeuppance.
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