JD, I have read the Koran four times, have you read?

Burr

-=jd=- wrote:

On Fri 02 Apr 2004 06:36:40p, N8KDV wrote in
message :


This cancer called Islam cannot be allowed to spread any further.
The Honorable Melvin Creep
Official Spokesman SW NG
Washington D.C.
P.S. To view a real life stoning of this religion of "peace" visit
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm#video

Vote early, vote often, but be sure to vote CREEP.



Dangit Steve!

Realizing what the video at that link probably contains, it has truly
harshed my mellow. Now I must "get my rant on!"

Earth-Muffins would admonish you to be more tolerant and to refrain from
painting the entire culture of Islam with such a broad brush.

But, since you brought it up, (awkward segue, but I had to get from there
to here) can anyone recall any Islamics continuously and *vigorously*
condemning the barbaric practices of their "less sophisticated" brethren?

One would think that if the Islamic extremists are (purportedly) giving
the religion such a black-eye, there would be gales of derisive
condemnation being heaped upon them (vigorously and often) by the (peace
loving) rest of Islamic society, even if they had to buy time on
[CNN/FOX/NBC/CBS/ABC/etc.] to make themselves heard. One would think that
the (peace loving) rest of Islamic society would take offense at the
barbaric few who were tarnishing their entire (peace loving) religion.

One wouldn't expect them to be so... quiescent.

Other than the (scant) one-line blurbs you hear (rarely) third-hand from a
news outlet, am I to presume mainstream Islam is so peace-loving that they
can't even bear to speak harshly about the miscreants in their midst? Or
perhaps the religion is sooooo peace-loving that they can't bear to speak
harshly about anything and view the miscreants as wayward lambs who
simply need to be gently returned to the fold...

Maybe it's all a vast major-media conspiracy to withhold/refuse to allow
the (peace loving) Islamics to be heard in order to...umm... I don't know.
I was going somewhere with that and my train of thought just fizzled...
Apologies.

If M.Creep's anti-terrorism policy recognizes that arresting terrorists
only serves to prompt additional acts of terrorism to free them and that
all terrorist should be afforded every opportunity for martyrdom (even if
they may not wish to become a martyr at the time) before an arrest is
considered, then he just might have my vote too.

Disclaimer for the nit-pickers (not necessarily just MWB): The above is
simply my opinion and nothing contained therein should be taken as fact...
or even seriously.

-=jd=-