[MistyCA]

You know, I watched the documentaries that have been shown on tv about the Taliban and Afghanistan. Just thinking back to the babies lying in their parents arms who can hardly find the strength to take a breath brings tears to my eyes. We are, most of us, so fortunate in the United States to have had forefathers who designed a system of government that would protect us...tame the heathen in us:) and allow us the privilege of believing in someone (God, of course) who could provide us with the strength we needed during the hard times. Someone who we could turn to praise in the good times. I simply can not imagine that we would be the kind of people who would condemn others for also needing faith in their own God (whether or not it is represented by an elephant or whatever...it is their right to have faith!). It is such a stupid fallicy, I think, to believe that the people in the Middle East, many of whom don't even know where the US is, are really interested in harming us when most of them are just struggling through the day to figure out how to get food.

An entire society of people who have so little in life have been condemned here and I find that though appalling and intolerant. And I have to wonder what went wrong with Christianity that we could breed that kind of hatred toward others? The enemy is those who rise against us. Yes! They use the Koran to justify their actions! Yes! They have followers! And YES! The tv makes those followers look like they represent the entire countryside....while the same news can never do justice to the destruction in NY because cameras just don't show the facts well enough. Hmmmm.

[sweetliberty]

"Just thinking back to the babies lying in their parents arms who can hardly find the strength to take a breath brings tears to my eyes."

And to mine.

"An entire society of people who have so little in life have been condemned here and I find that though appalling and intolerant"

I haven't seen in these posts any blanket attack on the people of the Middle East. Most of them are slaves to tyrants, which is why they ARE so poor. Most have never had the choice of what religion to follow because it was dictated to them from the beginning, and no doubt most have seen the penalties of "choosing" otherwise. Islam as interpreted by those who are its enforcers, is violent, oppressive and militant and rules with the weapon of fear.

Even in America, some of the most militant and divisive groups of people are adherents to Islam; I am referring to to those like Mfume, and Sharpton and members of the NAACP, to name a few. I would like to believe that the furthur encroachment of this religion into our cities and communities poses no real threat to us, but unfortunately I cannot.