Posted on 06/17/2002 2:26:35 PM PDT by swarthyguy
Question - In view of the recent incidents of New York and Washington DC, and taking into consideration the massive reaction of the Western nations and governments, do you believe that there is hope for the peaceful presence and spread of Islam and Muslims in the West?
Answer - Definitely. Without the 11th of September, would president Bush had appeared in the biggest mosque in Washington, would the British prime minister have shown himself on TV waving the Quran as a wonderful book., and the German chancellor inviting after the 11th of September the national representative of Muslims in Germany for the first time to Berlin together with the catholic cardinal and protestant leading bishop. This all is due to the 11th of September. Islam for the first time reached the same protocol status as the other religions. Before September 11 most Europeans never bothered to learn about Islam from their Muslim neighbors. Now they take their neighbors and their religions much more seriously.
Did our wonderful leaders even realise how their actions and words would be interpreted by them?
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You betcha...after a weasel entered my chickenhouse and wreaked havoc, I took weasels MUCH more seriously. ;^)
I can honestly say that if the fire ants had never appeared on my property, I would have never bothered to learn their ways in order to kill them more effectively. You might say I took them more seriously after they tried to infest my home. As a result, millions of fire ants have now died at and near my property.
Meanwhile, my life goes on in a fairly normal fashion, but my taking an interest in fire ants has not been good for fire ants. I hope it works out pretty much the same way for this false creed that serves as the religion of choice for so many of the lice-ridden people of the world.
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