[FBD]

excellent! thanks.
>"View it here! And have your sound on!"<

PING to freeper 'Question Assumptions'. This woman did exactly THAT; she "questioned assumptions", and now she recieves death threats for doing so:

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null


"Dr. Sultan did what Muslims are forbidden to do: She began to question the teachings of Islam, Mohammed, and the Quran.

Within Islam, there is no greater sin than to question the teachings of Islam or Mohammed, and to do so is considered heresy and blasphemy and is punishable by death.

Dr. Sultan is now a marked woman and no one is more aware of this than she. She now receives daily death threats but takes them all in stride. She is a woman at peace with her decision to speak out."

[dennisw]

Great video! She left that Koran scholar in a sputtering rage.
Some more from her: http://www.annaqed.com/english/politics/who_are_the_muslim_brotherhood_trying_to_fool.html

[dennisw]

http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=481#more-481

[Question_Assumptions]

I fully support this woman's right to say what she said and condemn anyone who threatens or harms her. Again, my argument was not that Islam was perfect or that radical Muslims were harmless. My argument was that many (if not most) Muslims, in practice, are not as radical as the fanatics and, regardless of whether it is because of their religion or despite their religion, pose no particular threat to America or Western civilization. If we start persecuting innocent Muslims simply because they are Muslim, then we'll be doing exactly what this woman was able to say that Christians and Jews don't do -- attack innocent people without provokation.

By the way, I've also ordered Oriana Fallaci's two books. The conflict between cultures does interest me and I do think that one is going one. I just don't think the delimiting line is necessarily between Muslim and Christian but between Western civilization and Arab civilization, influenced by but not entirely defined by religion. There are Westernized Muslims. Perhaps they are bad Muslims. I don't really care. If they can live peacefully withing or along side Western civilization, they are not my enemy. Those seeking to destroy Western civilization are. And all Muslims are not seeking to destroy Western civilization any more than the numbers of seeking to destroy Western civilization is confined to Muslims only.