[solzhenitsyn]

Thank you for this splendid story, Spruce.

A small and shrill minority of Freepers professes to hate all Muslims. I wish to remind anyone who might belong to that group that if you truly hate all Muslims, you hate the hero of this story, and anyone like him.

I lived in a Muslim country for six years, and I know that there are Muslims who are good, honest, decent, and courageous. We need their help, and they definitely need ours. They have a tough row to hoe.

[E Rocc]

A small and shrill minority of Freepers professes to hate all Muslims. I wish to remind anyone who might belong to that group that if you truly hate all Muslims, you hate the hero of this story, and anyone like him.

Bingo. Perhaps its most clear when the Islamophobes seek to blame Islam for every Iraqi atrocity even though Sadam is a totalitarian crypto-socialist who embraces Islam at his convenience the way his hero Stalin embraced the Russian Orthodox Church when the Germans invaded.

Our side is gaining on these pages....more and more posters are willing to point out that religious bigotry is a great big pile of barbrastreisand. I'm looking forward to the day when anti-Islamic bigotry gets zotted as quickly as other forms of racial or religious prejudice do around here.

-Eric

[demnomo]

I hate Islamofascists, not ALL Muslims. I do think that way too many Muslims are misguided by fanatical Imams and cultural opportunists who foment hate and violence against Israel and the West. Time will tell if the majority of Muslims are either Osama/Saddam/Arafat-type followers or are willing to live in peace with their non-Muslim neighbors.

Stories like this one and others from places like Kuwait & Afghanistan are hopeful that not all Muslims outwardly or secretly wish ill on me, my family, friends and fellow human beings who aren't Muslims. All Muslims who become, support or cheer on religious fanatics, Islamofascist terrorists and even secular ME dictatorships are the kind of people who revel in violence and want the entire world subjected to a blood-drenched jihad. They are fair game for my anger and revenge, IMHO. It's a matter of survival.