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To: Darth Reagan
I am humbled by your logic

Lady Heron didn't think you needed the intermediate steps in her logic spelled out.

The Aryan Nations are racist terrorists. They do not claim to be acting out of their Christian faith.

Based on past experience, whoever bombed the bus was likely expressing their Muslim beliefs.

Your statement was therefore breathtakingly idiotic.

I suppose you could quibble about aerobic capacity.

32 posted on 11/29/2001 12:25:37 PM PST by Praxeologue
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To: Kennard
I saw your freepmail before this post. Let me draw the lines again:

There are many terrorists in the world who kill the innocent and proclaim that this is an expression of their religion, Islam. Let's call these people Group A.

Obviously Group A are members of the Islamic faith. We'll call the faith, Group B. Therefore, Group A is a subset of Group B.

Many here argue that Group A = Group B, that since some people murder in the name of Islam, then all of Islam advocates murder.

This is like saying that, since the KKK claims that the Bible supports their belief in white superiority, then all Christianity itself supports these beliefs. That's just wrong.

I don't deny that Islamic leaders could do a better job of denouncing such hatred. Unfortunately, they don't have Pope that can give some kind of pseudo-official statement on the matter on behalf of Islam, and is no one in the American Muslim community who claims to speak for all Muslims in the way that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton claim to speak for all blacks.

34 posted on 11/29/2001 12:40:05 PM PST by Darth Reagan
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