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To: lonestar67
"I also don’t see how it responds to gitmo or a range of islamic conciliatory gestures which are never challenged as church state wall breaches"

What does this even mean? Is English your first language?

"I don’t consent to your claims on thousands of executed warrants. "

Somehow, I'm not going to lose any sleep over that.

222 posted on 04/20/2010 3:13:58 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

see #223


224 posted on 04/20/2010 3:15:20 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: OldDeckHand

I am impressed with your persistence.

The original claim you make is that if Koresh had been an Islamic group, no one would defend him.

That is demonstrably false because of all the various kowtowing that is done to accommodate the false and frankly anti-muslim posing by the Left that makes heroes of Al Qaeda, Hamas, or any other Anti American entity. The complaints about waterboarding and panties on the head indicate that severe deference is provided in the public sphere for extremists interpreting Islam. These individuals are not to be treated harshly in any public sense. In fact, from the standpoint of the Left, to describe violent individuals as “terrorists” is explicitly inappropriate and among the deeper true reasons why these misunderstood souls engage in violence.

Had Koresh been an Islamic cleric, President Obama, the SLC, and a variety of major organizations would have urged us all to ‘not rush to judgment’ Specialist sensitive to alleged muslim grievances would have been brought in to validate, promote and encourage the public expression of the various fatwas that were being argued by the group.

Church State separation is the root metaphor of hostility that the Left is using on its right wing Chistians colleagues. Christians are rhetorically constructed as dangerous and must be kept behind walls. Muslims need to be understood and incorporating their beliefs into public school curriculum is for example a valuable exercise in multicultural understanding— even though it plainly violates dozens of Leftist court decisions designed to silence the most remote expressions of Christianity in public settings.

These arguments preclude your claim about how if Koresh were Muslim we would be fine with the government hostility.

Sleep well.


303 posted on 04/20/2010 7:50:47 PM PDT by lonestar67 ("I love my country a lot more than I love politics," President George W. Bush)
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