I sincerely the next bomb doesn't go off in your neighborhood.
You have said it all..In the weeks ahead we will be accused of bigotry and racial profiling
Too bad... 
Posted on 09/11/2001 4:07:58 PM PDT by Illbay
Just above the text box into which I'm typing, it says, and I quote, "NO racist or violence posts."
Ladies and Gentlemen, FReepers of every race, CREED and color, I urge an immediate moratorium on the nauseatingly bigoted comments directed against "Islam," or "Muslims," or any negative reference to anyone strictly because of his or her religion. FR is no place for this trash, and I'd like to publicly call on the Esteemed Moderators to hunt down and erase all such tripe from FR.
On what basis do you say it's a minority? Billions of people hating us is a minority? Please, get real!
On another thread you said:
NOBODY deserves what happened Tuesday, and nobody is responsible but the terrorists and those who harbor them.
I say that any Muslim who does NOT denounce these terrorists ARE harboring them.
I sincerely the next bomb doesn't go off in your neighborhood.
You have said it all..In the weeks ahead we will be accused of bigotry and racial profiling
Too bad...
Agreed. This constitiutes about 1 percent of all Muslims, though.
This is a clash of civilizations, nothing less. We must fight a total war to make sure that the next attack doesn't cost the lives of 10,000,000 innocent Americans.
What does Islam mean? "Submit" I believe. So be it.
Submit.
Those who are sympathetic and supportive of the terrorists deserve to share in their just rewards. Period.
Illbay is consistent, always wrong.:)
WarHawk42
Maybe we will get an answer if this post lasts long enough.
We are about to kill a lot of Muslims. We must dehumanize them in order to do it. That is the purpose of all war propaganda. When CNN starts to show dead Muslim children, our hearts must be hard.
I am sorry that some loyal American Muslims will have to go through this. It cannot be helped.
My heart is hard. It must be.
Let the real killing begin.
We are not in the business of demonizing entire creeds.
If so, welcome back! Where have you been?
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And if they are wise will do so very quickly and publicly....
My sentiment on this is that Israel should utterly crush PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and DFLP once and for all, and we should wipe out the rest of the Islamic radicals ourselves (Iraq, Taliban, etc.).
Somebody on this site said it well: corpses can't wage war. We would all do well to remember that.
Subject: Afghanistan (fwd)
I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ron Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing.
I speak as one who deeply hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. My hatred comes from first hand experience. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters.
But the Taliban and Bin Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps."
It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country. Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan--a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has been burying these widows alive in mass graves.
The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban.
We come now to the question of "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age". Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did all that. New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide.
Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs would not really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban--by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time.
So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed. Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is Americans dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that folks. Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.
And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants. That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong, in the end the West would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that?
Unfortunately, Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
In Peace,
Tamim Ansary
They are dancing in the streets of East Jerusalem! The leaders would be out there with them were they not afraid of us and utterly dependent on our money.
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