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I think Bush is trying to make a distinction between the average everyday Muslim who just goes about his every-day life, trying to make a go of it in America as opposed to terrorists who under the guise of Islam or any other ideology practise violence against America and the world.

I think though he may be mistaken about the depth of the anti-Americanism that runs thru the Muslim community. They by and large are a well disciplined group that "keeps the family secrets" to themselves. While the majority may never pick up a bomb or rifle, and there may be differences in dress and practise, in their heart of hearts, they would cry tears of joy should the US become an Islamic republic. That black males are gravitating to Islam should be a clue to that sense of personal empowerment that Islam provides to males, as well as providing justification and a channnel for directing rage and violence against a specified enemy..all infidels!

Sugar coat it all you want, Mr. Bush. I can sympathise with your desire that America remains mellowly tolerant of all faiths and creeds, but we must be cautious of clasping a viperous ideology to our breasts. The devastation to our country would be too bitter to contemplate. Islam does preach violence, and forced violence is how it historically has spread, when weaker nations have "voluntarily" refused its embrace. Many Moslems I have talked too exhibit a sense of abrupt "rightness", many of the most polite of them simply nod at your disagreement with them as a parent would with the childish assertions of a 3 year old child. The worst of them await only the word of their local Imam to cut your heart out. They are "right", the rest are all wrong.

Feminists should be especially worried about the inroads that radical Islam is making, especially among fatherless black males. Yet they are so busy railing against the so called "slavery" that our judeo-christian traditions have have "chained" them too, they have not even considered the utter brutality and repression that Islam would subject them to. An Islamic male sees himself as all powerful, totally in control of the women and daughters in his life. The religion teaches him to be brazenly intolerant of all other religious views and opinions and it teaches him that all women are chattle, to be used and abused as is his want! The religion gives him direct justification for his abuse of his women and what is worse, Islamic women en masse suffer a kind of Stockholm syndrom, having come to believe that it is right to suffer the indignities that they suffer...in order to survive it!

This loathsome philosophy needs to be stamped out of our American system like a serpent under our heels...though we must be prepared to be bitten in our heels while we crush its head!