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
Thanks for the links and the additional comments. I wonder why the ACLU isn't freaking out about these prison conversions. As if I didn't know already.