President To Nominate Muslim As UN Ambasador

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[jamese777]

PRESIDENT BUSH WILL NOMINATE ZALMAY KHALILZAD -- AN AFGHAN MUSLIM CURRENTLY SERVING AS AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ -- AS THE NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., ABC NEWS IS REPORTING... DEVELOPING...

[oneamericanvoice]

see post 22

[antiRepublicrat]

Excellent qualifications, and being a Muslim in our dealings with Muslim countries is a cherry on top.

My Bush opinion meter goes up a notch.

[La Enchiladita]

Jihad includes other methods besides terrorism.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Wouldn't the north be more probable to be Muslim (being closer to northern Sudan and Arabia), whereas the south is closer to Christian or animist southern Sudan and Kenya (though there is Muslim Somalia, too)?

[TexasCajun]

Count me as one muslim terrorist hater!

Another lib professor who's a legend in his own mind it seems.

[zimdog]

The island was taken over to expand Spanish territory--though evangelizing to the natives did have a role.

It was part of the Reconquista's expansion of "Christian Spain":

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two

And Spain expelled each single Jew

And almost every Muslim too

[TChris]

Intimidation is not terrorism? One of the main definitions of terrorism is intimidation. Terrorism doesn't have to be violent, often the threat of violence is terrorism. Do you think that an attack on our government computer systems wouldn't be terrorism?

True, intimidation is an ingredient in terrorism. But intimidation alone is not terrorism. Terrorism's unique aspect is it's random, extreme violence. The terrorist makes his point with actual violent acts (bombs, beheadings, hijackings, etc.) Those acts combine to create powerful intimidation, to be sure, but there are plenty of other intimidation techniques that are not terrorism.

If intimidation alone was terrorism, we would have to label most middle school gym teachers terorrists!

That said, I do think some of the KKK's crimes were terroristic. Burning churches and midnight lynchings would certainly qualify, IMO. But, again, even the KKK can't hold a candle to the number and frequency of Islamist attacks on innocent victims.

[zimdog]

Wouldn't the north be more probable to be Muslim (being closer to northern Sudan and Arabia), whereas the south is closer to Christian or animist southern Sudan and Kenya (though there is Muslim Somalia, too)?

Perhaps, but that's not the case.

[zimdog]

It was SPAIN that did that, ie the Spaniards.

I never said it wasn't.

That is why the Mexican People speak Spanish and not English.

Because the Spanish conquest killed off the native population of "Hispañola"/Ayiti?

[Last Laugh]

You have explained your views reasonably and calmly. I do not believe you are a bigot, you make excellent points. :)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

comment 22 was to CJ Wolf.