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Some of the comments about this article are disgraceful.

I am a Christian, not a Muslim but I do not dislike Muslims.
You are attacking another person's beliefs in a way that shows little or no understanding or thought. You should feel ashamed of yourselves.

One post gave this quote from the bible as a reason to hate Muslims:
"SHAKIR The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Yet in the Old Testamant enemies of Christianity are also condemned and Gods people instrusted to kill every one of them. People are stoned to death. There is violence, seemingly encourgaed by the religion. So simply to take a extract from the Quran is no justification.

Another post includes:
"Islam is not the way to Heaven. We can only get their through Jesus Christ."
Don't you realise you are showing a compleat ingnorance of your own religion?
Both the Bible and the Quran say that ALL believers in one God will enter Heaven.

Many posts include a mention of the World Trade Center attacks, such as;
"look at the pictures of the World Trade Center. That's horror. Unleashed by practitioners of YOUR religion on innocent men, women, and CHILDREN in a pair of office buildings in downtown Manhattan.
Pardon us if we're inclined to think of you as barbarians."

No one will deny that the events on 9/11 were horrific. But to blame this woman, or even Islam for it is wrong. That is stereotyping and racist. You cannot take the actions of some and blame an entire race for it.
The terrorists may have believed that they were acting in the name of Islam but what they did went against the teachings of Islam. They were not real Muslims. And there are millions of Muslims in the world with NOTHING to do with it, yet you seem to hold them answerable, simply because they can be classed together.

You are a christian; are you therefore personaly responsible for the deaths of those killed in fighting between Catholics and Protestants?

You may be white, so was Hitler. Does that make you responsible for WW2?

Of course not. Surely you can see that such assumptions are ridiculous?!

And lastly, the hypocrytical suggestion that this woman can in any way be blamed for political acts because she herself takes no interest in politics and has done nothing to stop them.
There are countless terrible things going on in the world. Too much for one person ever to hope of preventing. She COULD dedicate her life, at great personal risk, to interferring in politics. Or she could simply lead a normal life as well as she can, everyone else.
So to all of you, typing away your insults from your PC, what have YOU done to encourage peace in the world? The answer? probably nothing.
So you cannot critisise this woman for being the same.

I would like to suggest that in future you all try to excersise a little more Christian love, forgivness and understanding, and think about what you are saying.