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To: Peach
Former FBI translator Sibel D. Edmonds says translators of Middle Eastern origin working for the FBI's Washington field office maintain an "us"-versus-"them" attitude that's so strong it may be compromising al-Qaida investigations.

I expect the usual parade of incompetents and the ignorant and the 2+2 = 7 crowd to start a new refrain: Hate speech! Where's the proof?
The lethal inevitable result of the triumph of PC over common sense.

And a continuing total paralyzing state of collective cultural cognitive dissonance, the determined refusal to see what has been obvious for 1400 years: Islam is not a religion in the sense that westerners grasp it. It is an inseperable and fanatical militant invader, using all means including murder, but emphasizing our concept of religion as the means to achieve their ends.

Islam is an permanent meld of the religious and the secular, and there is no limit as to the means it uses to achieve its objective.
We can continue calling gunpowder "charcoal", if we insist, but it will not prevent it from blowing up in our faces. The question remains, how many times must it blow up before the message comes through?

45 posted on 01/07/2004 5:41:29 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Publius6961
Islam is not a religion in the sense that westerners grasp it.

A very important concept that we refuse to deal with.

But it was one thing that was certainly understood by the Egyptian translator/interpreter at the first WTC bombing trial, who went up to the crazy blind sheik afterwards and APOLOGIZED for not being able to help him more with his translation! And was so proud of himself for doing this that he actually boasted about it (and was applauded) at a translation organization meeting I attended last year.

62 posted on 01/07/2004 5:55:36 AM PST by livius
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