[Unam Sanctam]

Do you people realize that there are TWO sides in Afghanistan? There is the Taliban and Al Qaeda on the one side, and there is the transitional government, who are helping us fight them on the other. Does it not ever occur to you that there might be a teeny, weeny, smidgen of difference between these two sides, who are both Moslem, by the way? Nah, screw 'em all, they're all just moon worshipers anyway, right?

[Stew Padasso]

Send her back to a good stoning, that will set her straight.

[VOA]

Nah, screw 'em all, they're all just moon worshipers anyway, right?

OK, if you have to get a statement that goes beyond the beauty contest...
fortunately most of the Muslim world is populated by decent people who either
are not observant (or are ignorant) of what is in the Koran and Hadith.
Or they know what is in there, but by either good sense or inner virtue have decided not
to observantly carry out the commands in those books.

Actually, I have a grudging respect for the true believers. At least we
really know where they stand. The Muslim silent majority is what I really fear.

And let me say it clearly in case someone is logged on from Kabul: what laws Afghanis
have within their sovereign borders regarding their citizens are their business,
although most outsiders will always be repelled by the excesses of the Taliban era.
What goes on in other countries may diverge greatly from their point of view...
and they might as well learn that tolerating those differences doesn't mean
approving of them.