[mlc9852]

Letters to the editor isn't enough to stop anything.

[coloradan]

You're right, letters are an effect, not a cause. They're an effect of the gradual understanding of the problem. After enough people understand, though, a cure might be at hand.

[quesney]

"Letters to the editor isn't enough to stop anything."

Never suggested they were. They're a collective warning to "moderate" Muslims to act to deal with this terror threat...or else.

[Iron Matron]

Letters to the editor isn't enough to stop anything.<<

Probably not, but those letters are certainly telling us something aren't they?

What these letters are saying is along the lines of: "Listen up muslims, we know what our government says about your supposed religion of peace, but dont think our government tells us how to think or believe...We believe our own senses and US Citizens DO NOT trust you"

[softwarecreator]

No, but it's a start.  As long as the word starts getting out, things can snowball from there.

On the way to lunch I had a radio station on that sort of has a slight liberal slant (very small) and they asked callers to respond to the recent attacks.  All but one expressed concern about this "religion" and put the blame squarely on the leaders of Islam.  The one that did call in to blame the US, and Bush in particular, came across as a complete idiot and was pratically booed off the line.

Like I said, it is a start.  If these attacks happen here it WILL start to get really ugly.

[CDHart]

True, but I'm surprised they're being printed -- perhaps that indicates a change in attitude.

Carolyn

[clee1]

Exactly. Until the average Joe Sixpack tells his representation in Government: "Deal with this or we vote you out." and means it, or there is massive violence on America's streets, nothing will change. Letters to the Editor are worthless at best.

IMHO, it is going to take another major terrorist attack (or six) here for anything effective to be done about the problem.

The average American is too apathetic at best or too sympathetic to our enemies at worst to care; and governmental officials at all levels are too corrupt/compromised to do anything.

[cubreporter]

Be an optimist and look at it as a beginning.

[Thumper1960]

Letters to the editor isn't enough to stop anything.

No, they're not. They are, however, a barometer that can measure public sentiment. And, public sentiment is turning away from tolerance of self serving muslims denying responsibility for the venom spewed by their leaderships. In some circles, the talk of incarceration of muslims is actually being given some consideration. How much would it take for spontaneous appearances of self defense militias to arise? Not much, I'd wager.

[Mister Da]

The pen is mightier than the sword!

[Final Authority]

As in the theory of talk radio, letters to the editor are similar in that they represent the views of multitudes of similar people in the same demographic. When one speaks it is the same as thousands speaking.

Today, on WRKO in Boston, right after the London police service had a press conference, listeners nailed it. The Londoners have yet to state it is ME men of the Muslim cult who are the target but they did show pictures apparently (one can't see pictures on radio) of ME men fleeing the scenes of the latest bombing attempts. The callers to the show are now demanding that we begin a process to discriminate or to judge whom we shall search and watch rather than the present policy we have employed where even a gray haired Nun could be body searched before getting on a plane while letting the ME man with a backpack slip on by.

Michael Savage has been saying all along, as has Jay Severin, that to defeat the enemy we must name and identify the enemy and the enemy is Islam in all of its faults and cultural failings.

[A CA Guy]

An Armenian fellow born in Iran was at a recent party in Newport Beach. The party was by Muslims and many were talking about waiting to act against America. These are people here now...

He is also fearful of what is going on at a new Mosque on State College Blvd. in Fullerton.

I'm trying to get them to go to the FBI through somebody, but real soon I will send the FBI to them for an interview over this stuff.

The Muslims in our country show you one face, but if you want to see how they think, read the reports given on AL Jazerra.
What does that satellite Muslim station do?
Shows be-headings as advertising.
Allows terrorist propaganda.
Twists all stories against Americans to make them look evil.

IMO the vast majority of Muslims are radical.

This same Armenian guy went to visit Iranian relatives (he is NOT a Muslim, he is a Christian). He said Iran has gotten far worse since his last visit years ago and all of them are talking about attacking us with suicide bombings and other hatred...

There is a major problem and any failure we could have to not see it will get us killed.