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One would be wrong to think that Islamic sympathizers are only on our political Left. We have more than a few on the Right as well.

[E Rocc]

Pretty much any faith's harshest critics will be former members. I know a former Mormon who can't really be called anything other than bigoted against the LDS. We see the same phenomenon with the Roman Catholic Church. This is not to say that their points on specific views should be dismissed, but the personal animosity should not be discounted.

As President Bush has said repeatedly, we're not at war with Islam. We're at war with a certain radical branch of Islam, a branch which not only targets us, but moderate and even conservative Islam as well.

Indeed, the radicals who are our enemies are trying to drive a wedge between us and their Islamic targets. The selection of predominantly Saudi citizens for the 9/11 attacks reflects this. As a secondary goal of the attacks, Al Qaeda hoped to make the US suspicious of the Saudis. While this failed at a governmental level, it has had some success among our general population.

Islam has many faults and has a couple centuries of growing up to do. But right now, most Muslims are our allies against those who seek to distill the faith into its worst and most regressive tendencies.

-Eric

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