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Someone check the temperature in hell, because I'm now going to agree with scaeagles, a mere handful of posts after I agreed with Nephythys.
All this talk about the crusades, the holocaust, KKK lynchings and the like is red herringism. Radical Islamic Fundamentalism is a growing force, a violent force, and a very real danger to us, you and me, in the here and now of the year 2006. My apologies to innocent Muslims around the world, but I interpret their faith as a dangerous threat. And I'm hardly alone in that. Muslims have a bad rep, and I can't say as its undeserved.
Perhaps use Japanese internment camps as a warning not to go too far off the deep end. But try to understand why this is pushing the Deep End button for a lot of people.
I don't think Muslims in general are doing enough to counter the poor p.r. they are being saddled with. I don't fault any of them for that. Frankly, I don't think I personally am doing enough to counter my country's image as a warmongering death bully, and I am not surprised in the least that many in the world consider us a loathsome enemy.
So whining about poor, poor Muslims being tarred unfairly with the terrorist brush just strikes me as a bit disingenuous. This is their problem now. All of them. They've inherited it just as surely as I've inherited the "American" problem.
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