Silk purse

Submitted by Roger Warner (United States), Apr 20, 2008 at 07:29

Trying to make a humanistic, democratic, free society out of any islamic society would be, as the old saying goes, like "... trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear." It would be an exercise in futility to try to make it work.

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