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There is no more wiggle room for Muslims
Chicago Tribune ^ | September 17, 2001 | David Martin

Posted on 09/17/2001 6:21:21 AM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: BobfromMichigan2001
Great post. Just more proof of how Islam is the new evil empire.

Expect the "jihadist appeasers" here at FR to descend on this thread any minute and call you a racist for simply pointing out the truth.

41 posted on 09/17/2001 10:05:55 AM PDT by Stingray
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To: nofriendofbills
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, or RAWA, is a forbidden, underground organization in a war-torn country where a woman is considered to be worth one half of a man. Writing in Moxie Magazine, lesley Mackay profiles a young woman named Bejhat, who fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when she was 10 and grew up in Pakistan where she learned to read - something not allowed in her homeland. Mackay chronicles Bejhat's return to Afghanistan, disguised in her traditional Islamic dress, where she tries to help the women in the country of her birth. The Taliban denies women most of their rights.

Befhat describes her fellow countrywomen as "victims of the twisted philosophy of fundamentalism." Indeed, under the Taliban, women are not allowed to show their faces in public and are often beaten and murdered by men. To combat this, RAWA operates secret schools, literacy programs, and medical teams for Afghani women. Read her amazing story:

Befhat

42 posted on 09/17/2001 10:07:14 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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To: BobfromMichigan2001
Why do you post such hatred? It disgusts me to see some people using this crisis as a chance to persue bigotry. Bigotry not just of a race, but a bigotry of religion as well.

Each G-d fearing culture, believes that they alone are right. Who are we or anyone to judge? That is left to G-d!

As long as there is a belief in G-d, a code of ethics and love of their fellow men/women, who then are we to judge?

G-d will take of His own, those that believe in Him. No matter what the lable is on their faith. G-d knows who His loving soldiers and servants are.

May G-d change your heart and open your eyes, especially now when G-d is trying to bring us together.

43 posted on 09/17/2001 10:22:20 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Some of us choose to see the world with our eyes wide open.

Others choose to live their lives based on the lyrics of Beatles songs.

"Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Love is all you need..." (fade out to nothing).

44 posted on 09/17/2001 10:30:44 AM PDT by SocialMeltdown
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Some of us choose to see the world with our eyes wide open.

Others choose to live their lives based on the lyrics of Beatles songs.

"Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Love is all you need..." (fade out to nothing).

45 posted on 09/17/2001 10:30:46 AM PDT by SocialMeltdown
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To: BobfromMichigan2001

Great post. Just more proof of how Islam is the new evil empire.

Expect the "jihadist appeasers" here at FR to descend on this thread any minute and call you a racist for simply pointing out the truth.

41 Posted on 09/17/2001 10:05:55 PDT by Stingray

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Thanks Stingray, I have already been under heavy attack by the Neo-Con's. You know who they are don't you? They are the types that have taken over National Review Magazine and run Joe Sobran out of town.

46 posted on 09/17/2001 10:33:15 AM PDT by BobfromMichigan2001
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To: financeprof
"...Muslims, who presumably know about their own religion, are faced with a stark choice. If dastardly the acts perpetrated against the US were, as some Muslims have stated, a perversion of their religion, they should be leading the effort to seek out and destroy the perpetrators and their supporters. Their stake in this conflict is arguably greater than anyone's. After all, those who believe that Islamic radicalism is a perversion of the true spirit of Islam must know that both their nation and their faith is under attack...."

Perfectly stated. This should be the beginning and the end of any retort when confronted by a Muslim that states, "This behavior is not true Islam belief."

47 posted on 09/17/2001 10:39:34 AM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Great read; bump for a second read later. Thanks LOLJ.
48 posted on 09/17/2001 10:41:25 AM PDT by Silly
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Excellent post; however, several of the author's statements raise important questions:

"Young men so filled with hate that they are willing to sacrifice their lives to kill innocent people simply because they are Americans or Israelis do not appear out of nowhere. They are the products of an extremist culture that has taken over parts of the Arab world and threatens to engulf not only the rest of the Arab world but Muslim countries from Europe to Asia as well."

Why do so many Muslims hate America? Is our foreign policy partially to blame?

"The Islamic fundamentalist movement is a potent force throughout the Arab world and it would not take much to turn states like Egypt, Jordan, Syria and even Saudi Arabia into new repressive, theocratic regimes."

Attacking and killing thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries might be just what it takes to "turn Egypt, Jordan, Syria and even Saudi Arabia into new repressive . . . regimes." Perhaps, Osamba bin Laden is hoping for a major retaliatory strike -- and its accompanying "collateral damage" -- that will mobilize the Arab world against the United States.

49 posted on 09/17/2001 10:59:11 AM PDT by Un-PC
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
This is surprising coming from the editorial desk of the Chicago Tribune. Glad to see that they are waking up.
50 posted on 09/17/2001 11:05:47 AM PDT by WRhine
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To: BobfromMichigan2001, ALL, JimRob, moderator or whoever
Bob, you sent me a freepmail, saying to contact you with an email address inside.

I did. What I got back was a welcome to your club, and a bunch of SPAM.

I returned your welcome with a REMOVE me from your club list and I want it done immediately!! I want no part of your group and you had no right to add me to your list, because I did NOT ask you to do so. And further more I do not like the condescending tone of your following mail.

Everyone not interested in the type of world Bob wants to live in, be very careful if he freepmails you an email addy!!!

51 posted on 09/17/2001 11:31:25 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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To: Rippin
Great reply, rippin, great reply.
52 posted on 09/17/2001 1:09:05 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
A follow up: This is from the Associated Press, via Yahoo. JORDAN: King Abdullah II, his government and leaders of opposition and Muslim groups had swiftly condemned the attacks.

On Sunday, the Council of Religious Scholars, the religious authority in Jordan, issued a fatwa, or edict, saying it could not condone any party's effort to ``terrorize or attack any people on Earth'' and considered doing so ``a heinous crime.''

It's a move in the right direction.

53 posted on 09/17/2001 1:25:55 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
bump in the night
54 posted on 09/18/2001 11:05:01 PM PDT by primeval patriot
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To: Lent
FYI
55 posted on 09/18/2001 11:30:47 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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