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I refer to the letter US treating Muslims shoddily. First of all, the Sept 11 hijackers were not Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, or anyone else for that matter. They were Muslims. Three thousand Americans of all faiths were slaughtered. So can you blame the Americans for treating Muslims they way they do? The Americans know that textbooks in some Islamic countries demonise the West. For example, in Saudi Arabia, Saudi schoolchildren are being taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism in a textbook issued by their education ministry. There is no other country on earth where freedom of religion is not just...

The Democrats have gone nuts over the ABC miniseries, The Path to 9/11. But it's a little hard to see why. Maybe it's because Disney and ABC have been reliably pro-Democrat in the past, so the Dems feel betrayed. Looking at the big picture, though, it's a little hard to see what the Dems are complaining about. I haven't seen the miniseries, but I take it that it doesn't portray the Clinton administration as having taken very effective action against the growing threat from Islamic terrorists. What I don't understand is how the Democrats think they can rewrite history to...

Patterns of Islamic Terror by James Dunnigan October 28, 2004 In the last two months, the Moslem media have begin to raise the issue of widespread terrorism by Islamic groups. As is often noted, not all terrorists are Moslem, but most of those operating currently are. The Islamic media had largely ignored this fact until recently. But Islamic terrorism is not a recent phenomena. It's been going on in a big way for over three decades. A list of the attacks by Islamic terrorists since 1968 makes grim reading. Such a list is displayed below. In addition to these individual...

Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-2001: A Chronology Office of the Historian Bureau of Public Affairs October 31, 2001 1961-1982 First U.S. Aircraft Hijacked, May 1, 1961: Puerto Rican born Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz forced at gunpoint a National Airlines plane to fly to Havana, Cuba, where he was given asylum. Ambassador to Guatemala Assassinated, August 28, 1968: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was murdered by a rebel faction when gunmen forced his official car off the road in Guatemala City and raked the vehicle with gunfire