Opposition to hate should cut both ways

The Chronicle Online (Duke University) ^ | 11/13/02 | Dr. Bala Ambati

[Cyber Liberty]

For if moderate Muslims won't take out their own garbage, sadly the militaries of democracies will have to.

With far more gusto, I might add.

[3AngelaD]

He may be a bigot and an idiot, but he's OUR bigot and idiot, and he's right.

[gg188]

I guess Mohammed was a "freedom fighter" (as REUTERS insists on calling terrorists.)

[Rays_Dad]

He may be a bigot and an idiot, but he's OUR bigot and idiot, and he's right.

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Yup Yup agree 100%

[onedoug]

Falwell may be "a bigot and idiot", but not "for calling the prophet Mohammed a "terrorist."" He was.

[anniegetyourgun]

So let it be written, so let it be done.

[Asclepius]

... and ultimately convert the whole world to a perverse brand of Islam ...

Is there a non-perverse brand of Islam?

[RAT Patrol]

I don't think Falwell is a bigot in the least. He can think nothing of Mohammad and not be a bigot. Do we require people to praise Jesus? Heck no. We give them government funds if they want to insult him and call it "art."

As far as "idiot" goes....I don't think he is an idiot, but he doesn't always see the semi-truck rushing down the road he is standing in the middle of...and he thus gets run over a lot.

[Bommer]

Mohammed was a terrorist. His religion was not a convertion via the heart, it was conquest via the sword! The Qu'ran is a book of hate and murder. Those that do not "submit" to Islam are to be murdered for the sake of Allah. Hindus are thought to be Kafirs who are not even worthy of convertion. They are to be killed, period.

Muslims have no real God, and its nothing but a bastardized hodgpodge of Judeo-Christian scriptures rewritten and hi-jacked and blasphemed to justify its existence.

[xm177e2]

He was a "Muslim rights activist," because he was promoting Muslims' rights to kill people and steal their land.

[xm177e2]

To put it another way, he keeps running back and forth across the highway...

[ladyinred]

It is not good to have opinions anymore unless they are the correct opinions.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

For if moderate Muslims won't take out their own garbage

Ah, but here's the problem, though -- Islam's ALL GARBAGE!

[RAT Patrol]

LOL. Yeah, that's it.

Listen, I'm one of Falwell's biggest defenders. He's got just as much right to express his opinion as anyone else. The far-lefties use dubious "facts" to label him a racist with the sole motivation of demonizing the fictitious "religious right." That said, I do wish Falwell would stop "running back and forth across the highway.." LOL!

[Deb]

Ooooh, a Yul Brynner fan.

[Mr. Silverback]

Roger that!

[stands2reason]

Yul Brynner? I was thinkng "Creeping Death" by Metallica:



So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm Creeping Death!

[berned]

Jerry Falwell is a bigot and idiot for calling the prophet Mohammed a "terrorist."

ping

[Deb]

Same deal.