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To: veronica
"None of what you posted deals with the myth that, in this day and age, Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance."

Yes, and all Catholics are Nazi sympathizing supporters of the IRA and thinking blowing up innocent Protestant woman and children is okay.

147 posted on 10/25/2003 10:28:24 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson
I didn't notice Catholics celebrating en masse on 9-11. The same cannot be said for Islamists/Arabs.
148 posted on 10/25/2003 10:30:10 AM PDT by veronica ("I just realised I have a perfect part for you in "Terminator 4"....)
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To: CWOJackson
I'd wager the American soldiers at GITMO have some choice things to say about the Islamic clerics there who have been busted.
151 posted on 10/25/2003 10:32:40 AM PDT by veronica ("I just realised I have a perfect part for you in "Terminator 4"....)
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To: CWOJackson
Yes, and all Catholics are Nazi sympathizing supporters of the IRA and thinking blowing up innocent Protestant woman and children is okay.

I’ve been watching this discussion for a while, and you really are a poor debater. Ad hominem attacks (including comparing those here critical of Islam to the KKK), hiding behind “the group” (in this case, for some reason, anonymous soldiers at Fort Lewis), and as quoted above, gross exaggeration to the point of unintelligible nonsense.

You choose not to debate the tenets of Islam, which are at all times and in all places antithetical to the continued existence of our Democratic Republic, but instead keep littering the discussion with red herrings and strawmen.

Since you insist on using the Muslims in the military as a shield for your beliefs, can you explain, without resorting to the tactics listed above, why Chaplain Abdul-Rashid Muhammad, the most senior Muslim chaplain in the U.S. military, asked two prominent Islamic scholars in the U.S. for a fatwa (religious ruling)on the permissibility of U.S. Muslim servicemen to participate in the war effort in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries prior to Operation Enduring Freedom? A press release publicizing this fatwa (which, in somewhat bitter irony, also heralds Chaplain James Yee as the newest Islamic chaplain) is widely available on DOS websites worldwide

Did servicemen of any other religion require a ruling from their religious hierarchy before they proceeded into battle? And how does the publication of such a religious ruling by our State Department, and value judgments about a particular religion by our President accord with our jealously-guarded constitutional injunction against promotion of any particular religion?

We know, from the precepts of Islam, why this fatwa was necessary – that Muslims owe their allegiance to Islam before country, and for a Muslim to kill a Muslim is a worse crime than to kill an infidel. We saw, with Sargeant Akbar of the 101st Airborne, how such an allegiance can lead to divided loyalty, treason and murder, and there have been reports of Muslim soldiers (in an all-volunteer military) requesting religious exemptions from battle in the camps in Kuwait prior to the Iraq war.

Exactly how does this fractured allegiance to Islam benefit the military?

195 posted on 10/25/2003 11:26:43 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: CWOJackson
Yes, and all Catholics are Nazi sympathizing supporters of the IRA and thinking blowing up innocent Protestant woman and children is okay.

Do you relaize how lame and intellectually bankrupt you appear dragging catholicism into this thread?

370 posted on 10/25/2003 3:24:04 PM PDT by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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