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To: Illbay
If this had been an Islamic Mullah coming to speak, who had called Jews "monkeys" and Christianity "a religion of crusading murderers," imagine what this thread would be like.

True, but are Jews 'monkeys' literally, and is Christianity "a religion of crusading murderers"? I think not, and that is why comments like that are dismissed out of hand by the public at large.

But Islam is another case entirely. If you want to split hairs about peace loving Muslims and Islamists, thats fine, but the simple fact is is that the religion of peace has done all of this damage to itself, through its actions (not representative of all, but still bad PR) and the writings in its very own holy book. Islam must reconcile itself to the modern world, or it will either wither and die due to lack of good applicants, or will be killed by arms wielded by people who do not want to see the words of the Koran become reality...JFK

84 posted on 04/16/2003 5:24:39 AM PDT by BADROTOFINGER
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To: BADROTOFINGER
All you're saying is "yeah, but Islam IS an evil and wicked religion."

Circular reasoning.

Irrelevant. We have freedom of conscience here, and it is not a good thing to have the Pentagon seen as allowing "hate speech" from some but not others.
92 posted on 04/16/2003 6:22:06 AM PDT by Illbay
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