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To: Sender
It's like we're dealing with the Borg, one mass consciousness of millions of potential martyrs, all plugged in to the diabolical server somewhere. If we could just unplug that server...

Geeky side note: Every Borg vessel has a "vinculum", a device which links the minds of the drones so they can act as one.

For Muslims, the "vinculum" could be abstractly considered to be the Quran and Sunna. On a more practical level, the local Mosque is a "vinculum".

And the Prime Vinculum is the Qaaba in Mecca. If it were destroyed by a 50-megaton urban renewal project, Muslims everywhere would be praying to a glass-lined crater five times a day, and expected to make their pilgrimage (the Hajj) to a radioactive pit.

That would be justified only if Islam itself were finally considered to be "the Enemy". I only see that happening if the war becomes couched in those terms. As it is, the U.S. has many, many honorable and powerful Muslim allies, and would be wise to keep them.

Just as fundamentalist Christians shouldn't be cause for destroying Christianity, fundamentalist Muslims shouldn't be cause for destroying Islam. I haven't always felt this way, but I finally figured it out.

24 posted on 01/17/2003 4:39:51 PM PST by Imal (Oh My God, They Killed Kenny! You Bastards!)
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To: Imal
Just as fundamentalist Christians shouldn't be cause for destroying Christianity, fundamentalist Muslims shouldn't be cause for destroying Islam. I haven't always felt this way, but I finally figured it out.

Bad Example. Fundamentalist Christians are the ones who are obeying what it says in spreading the Gospel, and teaching the Church to obey God's word.

Muslim clerics are teaching their people to hate.

Believeing the Bible and what it says brings a person to peace. Believing what the Koran says teaches a person to hate Jews and Christians.

28 posted on 01/17/2003 8:46:22 PM PST by RaceBannon
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To: Imal
The destruction of the Kaaba by an Ethiopian with thin shins is one of the final signs of Qiyamah.
68 posted on 01/18/2003 11:21:10 PM PST by ganesha
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