What Muslims Don't Get

Submitted by Marci (United States), Aug 15, 2007 at 14:31

I am continually struck by the ignorance of the Muslim community--both here and around the world--about the consequences of their political and religious beliefs. I can't tell whether otherwise peaceful Muslims are simply naive or cowardly in not recognizing and standing up to anti-Western creeds and actions.

This was a no-brainer for Ms Almontaser, and yet she chose a defiant and indefensible position. Who was she trying to please? Where did she think she was living? Don't these people realize that there will be no jihad or intifada against us? My goodness, in defeating the Nazis we as free and secular people showed we can triumph over the most brutal war machine ever assembled. To entertain fantasies of overthrowing "The Great Satan" is not only a 12th century pipe dream, it is a dangerous one that will sooner or later end up with millions of their brethern dead, as the Germans found out.

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