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Skriven 2006-09-22 20:24:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: Muslems
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Marhaba John,

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>LL>The average Muslim is a peaceful, law-abiding citizen.
>LL>The average Jew is a peaceful, law-abiding citizen.
>LL>The average Christian is a peaceful, law-abiding citizen.

>LL>There have been, and are, terrorists of every religion.
>LL>That does not mean that Judaism, Christianity, or Islam
>LL>encourages terrorism.

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>LL>FDR was wrong in detaining Japanese and Japanese Americans.
>LL>GWB was wrong in detaining Arabs and Arab Americans.

>JH>Bottom line is, as a group they have to prove they can be trusted.

>LL>Should FDR have deported all Japanese and Japanese Americans during
>LL>WWII?  Many were.

>LL>Should GWB deport all Arabs and Arab Americans during his "war on
>LL>terror"?  Many have been.

>JH>I don't see that happening any time soon.

>LL>Bush is a divider, not a uniter.  Invading Muslim countries, and
>LL>threatening to invade more Muslim countries, is not a way to build
>LL>trust between America and the Islamic world.  No president can put
>LL>the world in a straightjacket and expect everything to remain the
>LL>same.  The world does not work that way.

>LL>Today we do not fear Buddhists.  In fact, America and Japan are
>LL>the best of friends.   Sowing discord around the world, especially
>LL>towards Muslims in general, is not a road to peace.  Rather, it is
>LL>a road to disaster.  With America being the loser.

>LL>What we should be doing is engaging in dialogue with our Muslim
>LL>brethren.  The better we understand each other, the less likelihood
>LL>there is for war between our respective peoples.

>LL>Maybe in 2008 the American people will decide to elect a uniter,
>LL>rather than a divider, as president.  And what a welcome change
>LL>that will be.  Not only for America, but for the world.

JH>Hey, go for it, Lee.  Turn the other cheek to your Muslim brethren.
JH>That way you won't see the sword coming when it chops off your head.

I have many Muslim friends, both here and abroad.
And I still have my head.

JH>If Islam is so beneficent, how is it that they are exporting Wahabism
JH>all over the world.  Nearly every muslim school in this country
JH>subscribes to that particular version of Islam, and it ain't to our
JH>benefit.

Obviously you know nothing about Islam, and even less about Arabs.

The Wahhabi sect is a very rigid and puritanical version of Sunni
Islam, practiced only in Saudi Arabia and in Qatar.  What you have
gotten confused about is that roughly 85% of all Muslims throughout
the world are Sunni, the remaining 15% being Shia.  There are about
21 million Saudis, and about 1 million Qataris.  Out of a worldwide
Muslim population of 1.3 billion, the 21 million or so Wahhabis
is peanuts (1.6% of all Muslims).  Not only that, but Saudi Arabia
and Qatar are allies of the United States in Bush's "war on terror".
And that is much to our benefit.

There are Muslims in our armed forces who are presently serving
in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Unlike you, I support our troops.  Not
just some of our troops, but ALL of our troops.  Those troops
are to our benefit.  Also to our benefit are those Muslims who
contribute to our society in other ways, patriotism not being
limited to serving in the military.

But that is something you could never understand.

"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out." - John Hull

Allah yisallimak.

--Lee


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