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King Todd thinks he knows better than President Bush.

I think he has seen the light what with Daniel Pipes and now this. Frank G Jr. and Freepers are having an effect on him.

France may of seen the light too...I hope we wake up before Islam can take over America!.....
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France's interior minister threatened today to expel any Muslim religious leader considered extremist after a fundamentalist Muslim organization unexpectedly won a large number of seats in an election for the country's first national council of Muslims. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894162/posts?page=

It’s the capacity of man to do evil that is the enemy, not ideas or inanimate objects.

While some ideas are inherently good and others are inherently evil, it is only when people act on the evil ideas that the problem arises. Similarly, while you know that you can use a gun for self-defense, to hunt, as a collectible item, or just simply to admire, you are also fully aware that it can do something as evil as being instrumental in the murder of an innocent person. It’s the action of picking it up, pointing it at that innocent, and pulling the trigger that’s evil, not the gun itself. Once that decision is made, and that action taken, do we punish the gun, or the criminal? Do we violate the right of all to own guns, or do we remove the rights of the individual who perpetrated the crime?

When I read the Old Testament, I realize that Jews decided long ago to forego the explicit instructions on the punishment of sinners detailed to a great extent in books like Leviticus, and ignore G_d’s stern warnings against not following His commands. Instead, they have made a choice to allow secular laws to rule matters such as adultery, or to even do little more than to show disapproval of people working on the Sabbath. In a sense, with the passing of time, Jews have decided not to put into practice actions that non-Jews would most certainly perceive as evil.

That’s where I see that part of the Muslim world that has made the choice to live and grow within the scope of Western civilization. In effect, they are choosing not to use the gun for evil; they are walking away from the evil aspect of Islam.

It was no coincidence that the people who carried out the attacks on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia, and not from a Western country. The extremists within Islam see the relentless advance of Western civilization, and they see their people moving away from the repressive life under the Mullahs, and towards a westernized version of Islam, an Islam where the Mosque does not command so much as it obeys, and if they can’t get them to return, then the only choice left is to make us reject them, so they find fanatics in their ranks to carry out their plans.

And it isn’t even about religion either, the geopolitical aspects of this issue are titanic in scope, and like so many times before, people who seek power over other people are using religion as a tool to incite strife.

Who is the enemy then?

It's the Muslim terrorists who perpetrate atrocities in Islam's name who are the enemies here, that, and the evil that men can do in their search for power.