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James Taranto responds to the NY Sun column in his "BEST OF THE WEB TODAY."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006701>/a>

"In fairness to Rice, she presumably was referring to government policy, not the actions or opinions of private individuals. Still, by way of comparison, recall that three years ago Palestinian Arab terrorists occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Priests reported that "gunmen tore up Bibles for toilet paper," according to the Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo. The Chicago Tribune noted after the siege that "altars had been turned into cooking and eating tables, a sacrilege to the religious faithful."

Christians in the U.S. responded by declining to riot and refraining from killing anyone. They had the same response 15 or so years ago when the National Endowment for the Arts was subsidizing the scatological desecration of a crucifix and other Christian symbols. This should also put to rest the oft-heard calumny that America's "religious right" is somehow a Christian equivalent of our jihadi enemies."

1 posted on 05/17/2005 8:00:58 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

No, Newsweek published a bogus story. This story helped the enemy and undermined our troops. The Whitehouse didn't do it, and the people who rioted didn't do it. Newsweek did, and it is time these holier than thou folks in the MSM owned up to the power of the press and the distruction they can and, in this case, did do.


2 posted on 05/17/2005 8:06:57 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Armed Forces Day May 21, 2005)
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To: CHARLITE
Right, I wouldn't have fanned the moslem riots if given a choice, but why are we catering to idiots who riot and frankly get themselves killed over a Koran placed on a toilet seat? Can you imagine if Christians behaved this way in the modern age? Why do we have to pretend to give credence to primitive behavior?

The prisoners in Gitmo are throat slitting fanatic mass murderers. Why should anyone give a damn what upsets them? That includes other moslems who if they are with the terrorists, are our enemies. How dare they attack our troops over such nonsense?

If Islam is infected with such craziness then it does not deserve the respect of civilized people.

3 posted on 05/17/2005 8:07:48 PM PDT by Williams
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To: CHARLITE

Consider the possibility that Clintonista Isikoff planted the blurb a week or two before it might be needed -- when someone in our anti-American diplomatic corps could tip off the Mullahs and Ayatollahs in time to head off any news that the Rosen trial REALLY DOES implicate the Clintons.


13 posted on 05/17/2005 8:20:13 PM PDT by FreeKeys ( "Everything about Hillary screams 'political calculation'." -- Jay Cost)
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To: CHARLITE

I've asked you more than once to remove your posts to me.. You said ok in private eail. And yet, you CONTINUE.

Arrgh!

Bug off.


15 posted on 05/17/2005 8:24:40 PM PDT by JLO
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To: CHARLITE

Michael Isajackoff should be tried under the Sedition Act of 1917 as a traitor and if convicted shot.


22 posted on 05/17/2005 9:52:17 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Rats theme song: "Whatever it is...I'm AGAINST it!!!")
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