I don't see how any thinking person could miss the implications of what you describe. It's true and it's here and now.
This isn't a damnation of Moslems, even though I beleive the case could pretty much be made. Frankly I don't care what lifestyle they choose to live under as long as they do it in their homeland and not ours. If they wish to mutilate their female children, kill each other in endless feuds, I say let them go for it as long as they do it in their own homeland.
Where I'm coming from is that until the Moslem religion gets it's act together and adopts the brighter aspects of at least the 17th century, member of this religion would be better served to be segregated and living with their own kind in dirt hovels, if that's what they choose. And obviously, it is.
Take care.
it is not a damnation of the muslim - to say that your words are so qualified would be to say that the ads focusing on Kerry's flip-flopping could actually be characterized as attacks. Both are similar, both are the truth.
An article fm the Wash Times posted on another FReeper thread today; almost prescient to our conversation:
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040410-114517-9568r.htm And another item I googled recently which talks about conversion in US Prisons:
http://mediaguidetoislam.sfsu.edu/intheus/06c_converts.htm A couple of notes from the above: "...It is estimated that more than 300,000 prisoners are currently converts to Islam and about 30,000 may be converting each year, according to scholar Jane I. Smith. Since the prison systems include a higher percentage of people of color, many of those converting are African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans..."
This is a long term problem which we'll have to deal with - right now, my prayers are with my USMC brothers... may their hearts be strong, their conduct beyond reproach, and their aim true.
CGVet58