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To: massadvj
I have been accused of being a fascist, racist bigot on other threads because of my view that All Muslims have the potential to want to destroy us.

I just want you to know that it is not your nationality that bothers me at all, but the religion of Islam.
40 posted on 08/19/2006 7:28:12 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: mariabush
I have been accused of being a fascist, racist bigot on other threads because of my view that All Muslims have the potential to want to destroy us.

I think this overstates it. I have read the Koran and see what you mean. But in my own experience with Muslims, most of them, like Christians, are businessmen and family members and humanists before being Muslim. The problem is, their religion is very specific as to what they must do if there is war between Islamists and non-Islamists. They must support the Muslims or be condemned to hell forever.

The fundamentalists are aspirational to the masses, just as, say, the Amish are aspirational to many Protestants. The street Muslims see the terrorists as defenders of Islam. But that does not necessarily mean they will take up arms against us.

Unfortunately, the more we target Islam as the enemy, the more we throw fire on the problem, which is why Bush has referred to Islam as a "religion of peace". It is a strategic tactic.

As Christians, we are not philosophically predisposed toward out and out genocide. Out WOT enemies are fully aware of this and use it against us time and time again. But so long as we retain the ability to indiscriminately level the enemy, their civilian shields as well as innocents, we have the upper hand. At some point in time, we may well have to use this power, but that time is not yet at hand.

Right now, we are at war for the hearts and minds of the citizenry. If, through democratic processes, they choose terrorists to lead them, then their "innocence" is naught if the terrorist leadership causes their civilization, and its feeble contribution to the betterment of mankind, to be wiped off the map.

The point is, we must be patient and fight the war on our timetable, not theirs. They do not yet have the capability to deliver an atomic weapon to a western city. Until they do, we must continue trying to change their hearts and hope for divine intervention, all the while holding the big stick conspicuously under their noses, vigilantly at the ready to deliver the decisive blow.

56 posted on 08/19/2006 8:07:11 AM PDT by massadvj
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To: mariabush

Amen.


74 posted on 08/19/2006 9:15:49 AM PDT by GulfWar1Vet (Is the Democratic Party an ally of Islam?)
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