[DOGEY]

"Maybe because it encourages Islam????"

Which then can and does encourage/promote terror.

This is not rocket science, folks.

No, it's not rocket science. Bigotry is the more accepted term.

[jdm]

"Bigotry is the more accepted term."

If only 10 percent of Muslims want to kill Americans, that's still 180,000,000 in favor.

[FBD]

Islam is a political sytem as well as a religion; in general, it does not promote freedom.

This is an aside from the port deal, which I have come to believe wasn't a security threat. However, as to Islam, I'd recommend reading something from a well educated ex-Muslim, Dr Ali Sina, or Ibn Warraq:

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http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/why_i_left_islam.htm

"I vehemently reject any recognition of Islam as a legitimate religion and call for its total denunciation and ban. If seventy years ago someone called for total denunciation of Nazism, he probably would have been called an extremist, yet a decade later everyone adopted that view. Should we not learn from history? Evil must be rejected completely and without reservation."- Dr Ali Sina