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Hate to say it, but I'm with Neph on this one.
In this day and age, Islam - thru the acts of its extreme and twisted adherants - is getting a repulation for violence. And its vast majority of peaceful practicioners are not doing enough to counter the label they are being stuck with unfairly.
This week, Colin Powell wrote, "The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism." Can we deny America's piss-poor repulation in the world? And yet it's true that most Americans are peaceful, justice-loving folk. But we are hiding our heads in the sand if we don't realize that our government is acting with powerful forces that erode our reputation in the world.
The same thing may be happening to Muslims. But it's no more mistaken, imo, to say that Islam is a violent religion than it is to say America is a violent nation.
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