[Rummyfan]

If the West's Muslim 'community leaders', for whatever reason, are reluctant to speak truth to evil, that is a matter between them and God. Their opposition to the war is their right as free citizens. So is their belief that the Holocaust never happened and that honour killings are a valuable cultural tradition. All I ask is an end to the deeply unedifying spectacle of Western politicians jumping through increasingly obnoxious tolerance hoops. Bush, after all, doesn't waste time fawning on any other anti-war constituency. What was remarkable after 11 September was that 99.99 per cent of the American population displayed no animus whatsoever towards Muslims. What's even more remarkable is that they've put up with weeks of being lectured not to surrender to their natural racist urge to Islamo-lynchings, and two months of preposterous fetishisation of a sub-group of US citizens that has chosen for the most part to sit this war out. One-sided outreach is demeaning. It suggests we have something to feel guilty about. We don't.

Why do we kowtow to these in-bred seventh-century savages? Why?

[jimtorr]

Why do we kowtow to these in-bred seventh-century savages? Why?

It is my personal belief that many leaders are paid to do so.

[Capt. Tom]

Why do we kowtow to these in-bred seventh-century savages? Why?

Probably because most of us have been raised on first century beliefs, which didn't seem to realize six centuries later a belief system like Islam would take advantage of the be nice to others, forgive and forget, . love one another beliefs of the first century- Tom