Posted on 09/22/2002 7:07:17 PM PDT by Stultis
YOU are what's scary, Ahmed.
For example, I know any number of Muslims who drink, and who smoke. Most of them keep the five pillars, but don't sweat the small stuff. But to you, these aren't "real" Muslims, now are they? Narrow-minded, intollerant monoculture muslim-o-bots like you and your CAIR-horts are scary as hell, even with all concerns regarding terrorism to one side. If you don't understand this, and why this is so, then you don't understand America.
"Moderate islam is the trojan horse of radical islam."
That's bull. Islam requires major reform, in fact needs to become a reformist religion like Christianity and Judaism have. Many Muslims recognize this.
Even in the most democratic, moderate forms of Islam it is clear that the only punishment for anyone who leaves Islam is death. I've yet to hear any moderate Muslim say otherwise.
See Democracy According to Isalm by Dr. Niaz Faizi Kabuli which John Esposito of Georgetown University calls an important work on this subject.
Militant, radical Islamic "reformers" are a problem for Moslems, too. These offspring of the original Wahhabs and reconstituted Assassins have organized out of their desert exile to once again bully the Arab world. They must be squished like bugs. But to sweepingly condem all Moslems is wierd. If they live by the Golden Rule, I have no problem with them. And most do. Consider the young Iranians, now struggling against these buttheads in their own country.
I wonder what would have happened to anybody holding up an "Islam Is a Suicidal Death Cult " sign.
Probably would have been decapitated by one of the towel headed psychotic murdering subhumans.
So Jewsw or Christians immigrating to, say Saudi Arabia, will be treated with full respect?? And allowed to practice their religion openly?
Well, Mr Bedier, most of those folks who do smoke, drink, and commit adultry didn't happen to fly two passenger jets into the World Trade Center. Nor did most of the folks who drink, smoke and commit adultry jump for joy in the streets and/or silently condone the attacks.
Mr. Bedier, the people who DID fly those airliners into the World Trade Center, and jump for joy in the streets, and remain silent as to any condemnation of the actions, are/were Muslim. MUSLIM!
While this does not accuse all Muslims, pardon me if I happen to look a little askance at the practicioners of the 'Religion of Peace', while their compatriots continue to speak of killing more Americans with abandon.
I suspect, Mr. Bedier, that there are quite a few folks like myself who, while giving the benefit of doubt, and wish to believe that we can all make a circle, link arms, and sing 'Kumbaya', are silently getting tired and a bit angry at being made to look like the bad guys for being a bit wary.
As a side note, if those students were 'joking', their ordeal should remind them and others from the Middle East that this is not a laughing matter to a lot of Americans who saw 3,000 innocent people die on September 11, 2001. I honestly fear for the well being of American society, and especially for those segments of Middle East extraction, if another 'event' like September 11 occurs.
Better, I think, to apply for permission to set up a missionary church -- you pick the denomination. Just be sure there are plenty of news cameras watching.
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