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To: Don Myers
We should recognize that blaming the religion of Islam for the barbaric behavior of some of its followers is illogical. Any more than it would be logical to blame Judaism if some of the more Orthodox Jews started taking the relevant passages a little too literally.

BTW, I'm highly in favor or hunting down and killing them before they kill us. I'm just opposed to saying, "The Muslims do this or that" without qualification. Too much like, "The Jews (or Catholics, or whites) do this or that" without qualification.

The Muslims had better decide to sit on some of their more extreme brothers before we decide we have to play Cowboys and Muslims.

247 posted on 07/01/2002 8:09:45 PM PDT by Restorer
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To: Restorer
"We should recognize that blaming the religion of Islam for the barbaric behavior of some of its followers is illogical. .. The Muslims had better decide to sit on some of their more extreme brothers before we decide we have to play Cowboys and Muslims"

What you are not comprehending here is that you cannot separate the good Muslims from the bad Muslims in this manner. They cannot speak against or act against other Muslims.

Have you heard any Muslim leaders speak against Islamic Jihad against the West? Have they condemned the attacks and other atrocities committed by the terrorists?

251 posted on 07/01/2002 8:14:46 PM PDT by Don Myers
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To: Restorer
We should recognize that blaming the religion of Islam for the barbaric behavior of some of its followers is illogical. Any more than it would be logical to blame Judaism if some of the more Orthodox Jews started taking the relevant passages a little too literally.

Not only is it illogical, it is unjust, and goes against the grain of conservatism whereby each and every individual is judged solely by their merits, by the content of their character, and not by their skin color or membership in some larger group. Only Democrats and other liberals (and apparently Mastoi tribesmen) use group-identity, group-grievance, and group-politics. I understand we are at war, and with an enemy we cannot easily identify and kill, and hence it is natural to lash out against the cruelties of September 11th. We will win, but not by blindly embracing group-identities and group-hatreds which the liberals like to do.

259 posted on 07/01/2002 8:19:48 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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