Will someone please tell this to the Prez and Condi...bending the truth for PC helps no one! It placates the enemy and abandons those trying to reform or escape islam.
The day that a president (any president) says that Islam promotes violence is the first day of suicide bombers in our shopping malls.
It's a very good thing you are nowhere near the levers of power in this country.
Ibn Warraq, author of "Leaving Islam" would agree with that assessment. He maintains that:
"Muslims do not need patronizing liberals to meet them halfway; Muslims need to write an honest biography of the prophet that does not shun the truth, least of all cover it up with the dishonest subterfuge of condescending western scholars"
-Ibn Warraq is the author of; "Why I Am Not A Muslim", "Studies on Muhammad", "Rise of Islam", and "Leaving Islam"
( Warraq is an Arab.)
Craig Winn, author of "Prophet Of Doom" has some very interesting comments on the Tamar Yonah talk show, you can listen to his interview here, in the archives:
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/
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And in all the while they are plotting to kill us and see this as a weakness.