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To: ApplegateRanch
Discrimination by religion is no more valid than discrimination based on skin color, and I say this as someone who was as guilty as anybody before recently coming to know some very fine people who are Muslim.

There are fanatic Christians just as there are fanatic Muslims. Because many undeveloped parts of the world are predominantly Muslim, I would even venture to say there is a much higher number of fanatic Muslims than fanatic Christians.

If one must generalize then do so based on culture, and not on traits that don't closely correlate with behavior. If we do this then decent people around the world, regardless of race or religion, will stand together rather than being at one-another's throats.

Then we can send the warthogs out to mop up those who are truly deserving.

13 posted on 05/15/2009 12:46:57 AM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: The Duke
Discrimination by religion is no more valid than discrimination based on skin color

Oh, please. Both are perfectly valid. You don't slap SPF 4 on a white guy who's gonna be digging post holes for you all day, and if you need a shooting guard who can run fast breaks with the best of them and elevate for rebounds and alley-oop passes, you don't draft a white guy.

Ditto with religion. You don't squander your best ham by sending it around for a seder dinner, where you'll just insult the guests while wasting the ham, and you don't schedule your annual beer bong for Easter Sunday.

Varying your conduct and your calendar events according to the religious affiliation of potential participants is perfectly logical -- and "discriminatory". Such as excluding altars set up to Lord Satan from the new Newman Center you're building at Notre Dame.

Capiche?

Stop lobotomizing yourselves, people. Let the liberals lobotomize themselves if they want, but don't participate. It's against our value system.

19 posted on 05/15/2009 4:45:32 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Bokababe; ApplegateRanch; The Duke; BIGLOOK
I do not believe denying to make an official "Islam Day" in a Christian country would be classified as discrimination.

Our government must remember that we are a Christian nation built on Christian principles. We do not discriminate in allowing Muslims to practice their religion in our country - as long as they and the world remember that we are a Christian nation AND they cannot shame up into ceding to any other religion.

Does anyone believe that if Islam became the world religion that Christians would be free to worship as they have for centuries? I say, if you don't want to become a Christian when you become an American, then don't. But, don't think of coming here and forcing your religion on me. The United States Government needs to remember who they work for.

22 posted on 05/15/2009 5:09:42 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Enough already! Stop spending my hard earned money!)
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To: The Duke
There are fanatic Christians just as there are fanatic Muslims.

Yes, those fanatic Christians who let girls burn rather than see them dressed inappropriately, who enjoy decapitating kidnap victims, who strap explosives to themselves and see how many innocent bystanders they can blow up, who use car bombs to kill police officers and civilians, who teach their children that Jews are subhuman, who stone their rape victims, who, let’s see, fly planes into buildings killing thousands of Americans. Yep, no difference at all, is there?

23 posted on 05/15/2009 5:22:40 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: The Duke
There are fanatic Christians just as there are fanatic Muslims.

That's what Rosie O'Donnell said, so it must be true.

Let's see Dan Brown & Ron Howard produce a book & movie calling Mohammed a fraud and the Islamic faith a violent, evil conspiracy and see how long it is before they have to go into hiding in the Himalayas to keep from being beheaded. Let's see a Dutch member of parliament speak out against Christianity (a la Geert Wilders) and then require a permanent bodyguard because a fatwa has been issued against him by the local Lutherans. Let's see Madonna go on stage a writhe sexually on a large Koran (as she did on a giant crucifix on a recent tour), and then smirk that if Muslims don't like it, they can shove it. It'd be Madonna's last tour, that's for sure.

24 posted on 05/15/2009 5:35:09 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (REALLY & TRULY updated!).)
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To: The Duke
Because many undeveloped parts of the world are predominantly Muslim, I would even venture to say there is a much higher number of fanatic Muslims than fanatic Christians.

Is it co-incidence that much of the undeveloped parts of the world is Muslim or is it a result?

25 posted on 05/15/2009 5:51:16 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Obama, the American Allende.)
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To: The Duke
There are fanatic Christians just as there are fanatic Muslims.

So true.

The Amish especially are known for their terrorist activities during the last decades.

Who can forget the Yoders? Their bombings of non-Christian places of worship left many of us stunned at what an extremist Christian is capable of.

29 posted on 05/15/2009 8:41:33 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Willful ignorance is a dangerous attitude.)
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