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"we can never win the friendship of these people if they believe our words of respect for their religion cover up a sneering contempt"
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They want us dead or Dhimmi you idiot. We can never win their friendship except under those circumstances. Censoring our press while allowing them to do all manner of evil against all that are not them is just incredibly stupid. But then, you Mr. Buchanan, are incredibly stupid.

This is like two children fighting and when you ask them what is going on, both yell "He started it!!!"

The fact is, there are probably a LOT of nice, peaceful muslims in the world and slapping all of them across the face is not beneficial to anyone's position.

On the other hand, simply waving hi to some of them will start an uproar and one thing leads to another and away the fight is flying.

We have to be effective and sorting the idiots out on both sides and condemning them. The 1st amendment carries responsibility with it.

Let me explain, I was at a basketball game once while in high school and our predominantly white team was playing a predominantly black team. One of the guys from our school went up to the bleachers in front of the opposing team, flipped them the bird and yelled F*** you N******s!!!!

Needless to say, it took the police about 2 hours to clean up the situation.

He has first amendment rights, but at some point we should all acknowledge that he failed in his responsibility to recognize that his words would lead to a violent situation.

Now putting up these cartoons is more subtle because it only draws violence from the reactionaries, but it still offends the majority of muslims. It doesn't deserve arrest, but it does deserve contempt.

Pat, how does one "make nice" with a culture that wants to see all Americans dead? This is not an evolved group of people who want to peacably coexist with the West. I'm getting to the point where I just don't care about "moderate" Muslims and catering to the "reasonable ones". The so called moderate Muslims have done NOTHING to stop this perversion of their faith. Their silence is approval of the actions of the extremists.