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Look, lumping all of those who practice Islam in with Osama bin Laden and the like is a bit reckless and stupid. I've got more than a few friends who practice the religion and they're not about to strap a bomb to their body. That being said, "moderates" who profess to follow Allah have a responsibility in the post-9/11 world to speak up to denounce both the political and religious leaders of those countries that traffic in the murderous and warped version of Islam that produced 9/11. Of course, such denunciations would be made a whole lot easier if these moderate mosques had any money to advertise their views. Unfortunately, it's the religous Islamic nuts that have all the money - mostly Saudi money. My fervent wish would be for the Bush administration - if their not going to confront the Saudis -to at least strap on a pair of balls and denounce the likes of CAIR and American Muslim Council. Until these organizations are discredited, more and more Christian, Jewish, agnostic Americans are going to jump on the "paint-with-a-broad-brush" approach to the problem of Islamic fundamentalism.

Did I compare them to Bin Laden or link them to him? No, I said Islam was a cult(which it is) and that as a religion it is violent and dangerous(which it is). For you to infer that I made that connection from my words is a leap and your own problem

traffic in the murderous and warped version of Islam that produced 9/11.

Could you point to me which 'warped' version that is. Numerous excerpts from the Koran have been provided here and elsewhere that show what it says to do (present tense mind you) about Christians, Jews, and anyone else that doesn't believe in a 3000 year old moon god.

My fervent wish would be for the Bush administration - if their not going to confront the Saudis -to at least strap on a pair of balls and denounce the likes of CAIR and American Muslim Council.

Well we know that's not going to happen. Powell's too busy giving speeches to groups like that denouncing Christian 'fundamentalists'