"I know - but this sword cuts on both sides of the blade. If we start to battle islam instead of terror and evil - we certainly earn us more thn a billion enemies - nothing against earning enemies if it has a reason."
True, which is why Bush is using this rhetoric I suppose.
Nonetheless. we have got to do something about Islam in this Country or we will wind up like Londonstan. And in the big picture, they will all be a lurking enemy. Look at Nigeria, Sudan, the Egyptian Copts, other parts of Africa where Christians and animists are being attacked and persecuted. Look at India and Cashmir where Islam is persecuting and attacking Hindus and Sikhs, or southeastern Asia where Buddhists are their targets.
Campare this with a past history of ethnic/religious cleansing in Iran against Bahai's and Zoroastrians, and Assyrian Christians in Iraq, and Christian Armenians in Kurdistan and Turkey and you can see a pattern of behavior which has not changed. If anything, the end of European imperialism has seemed to allow this aggressive belief system to rise from the grave and gain new life.
"Many terrorists are muslims but not many muslims are terrorists."
True, but with few execeptions, the masses of Muslims either sympathize with them or are too afraid of them to speak out against them, and the clerics seem to be almost unanimously supportive of them.
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True, but with few execeptions, the masses of Muslims either sympathize with them or are too afraid of them to speak out against them, and the clerics seem to be almost unanimously supportive of them.
I guess that's becuase there's no analogy in islam to the pope. They just have their imams and they are to many to speak with one voice.
There's in fact a good heap of Imams that have shown to be very cooperative and caring after 9/11 doing exactly what you demanded - distance themselfes from terror and violence - while others have been correctly arrested and e.g. deported from germany.
Fear and disaster is welding people together in this case it's a threat to unify mulims under the falg of hamas or hisbollah in the middle east - or to have even less of them integrating into the english society. Hell I'd have a hard time integrating in england - people don't make friends there anymore.