[DoctorZIn]

...all Muslims love the USA...

The fact is Iranian Muslims do love the USA...

Check out the Iranian Alert Daily Thread if you don't believe me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/~doctorzin/

[F14 Pilot]

Thanks Doc for being here.

[Capitalist Eric]

...all Muslims love the USA...

With respect, I must disagree.

Since 9/11/01, I haven't met a single Muslim who denounced the 9/11 attacks, or terrorism in the name of Islam.

Now, perhaps there is fear among some Muslims to not "rock the boat," as it were, and thereby make themselves pariahs within the Muslim communities in the USA... I honestly don't know.

But, given the lack of condemnation of those attacks by Muslims, as well as the attempted justification for them... (somehow America "deserved" it)...?

It seems that as long as Muslims remain quiet on terrorism, that they give tacit approval of such attacks...

[BOOTSTICK]

The most idiotic thread ever posted on FR, you are being "worked" by the American Iranian opposition. They want american blood to purge the Mullahs.

[hershey]

This is anecdotal, but bear with me: An Iranian immigrant family who've been here maybe six years, is trying very hard to become Americans. The grandmother arrived this past fall. I don't think she understands much English, but they're all desperate to put down permanent roots. The father is a software engineer, maybe was lucky enough to attend college here in MA., then went home and got the rest of his family out. When Iran is in the news, with WMD threats, etc.,I can tell they're worried, not just for relatives back in Iran, but for themselves. They watch me to see if I smile, and I do. Unless I see him building bombs in the driveway instead of putting snow tires on his car, I'll trust my instincts. Okay, one more story, and I'm still ashamed. During WWII, my family lived next door to the Forrestal estate, he was the Sec. of Defence, I think. And committed suicide, but that's beside the point. A family of German Jews arrived, still terrified out of their wits --they'd been spirited out of Germany. They stayed in the apartment over our garage for a few weeks until they could be relocated with relatives. I was four and read the papers, but didn't know they were Jews. They were GERMANS, and my best friend (another brat), and I decided to protect the homefront. We put tacks all over the driveway and drove a few into their tires. It didn't take my parents long to figure out who'd done it. I explained why. They explained why not, and I apologized to the German family, who moved away a few days later. My father said they'd endured unmentionable horrors in Germany, so even this incident gave them nightmares. God knows, our war on terror is unimaginably worse than WWII. If Western civilization is to survive, we have to be ready to lock and load. But it doesn't hurt to help Iranians in trouble. If down the line, we're occupying that country, on their way to democracy, those helped now might not take up arms to shoot our soldiers in the back.