The defeat of bad ideas

Submitted by Michel (United States), Aug 18, 2007 at 16:00

Hi Dhimmi

While I may not agree with you on the importance of these books and the drive to "understand " them, I fullheartedly do agree with you, that bad ideas usually will take the way of extinction.

I further agree with you, that there is no reasoning, no compromise possible with the likes of Bin Laden or Zawahiri. For that matter, there is no reasoning possible with any kind of fanatic, as history definitely has proven. Man, I tried that with some of our own bible fanatics and ended up beaten up. Surely that would have happened too, if I tried to find comon ground with the fanatic Imam of Birmingham.

If we remain vigilant, self confident, positive, but never complaceant or arrogant, but shine by example, these fanatics can not touch us and will remain a footnote in history.

If we could agree on not across the board vilify all Muslims, try to see and judge them by their actions and not so much by whatever they may read, we may have found quite a bit of common ground between us.

I will look up the sources you mentioned and most likely will be apalled by the sound of the written word. Moreso however I am still interested in knowing, if especially the paragraph you mentioned, still applies for the common Muslim of the Western World. I still believe that there is Religion on one side and real actual pragmatic life on the other and I do ask myself, if Religion with a majority takes priority or not. My personal experiences simply speak to the contrary.

Have a good weekend

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