Mr. Al-Mutairy, we have to protect ourselves.

Submitted by BA (United States), Jun 26, 2008 at 23:33

Mr. Al-Mutairy, you mentioned that Islam is the fastest growing religion and you're correct. It's because of the high birth rate. As you know, most Moslems have more than one wife and 2 dozens or more kids. Islam also is growing in the west with the less educated people and criminals who convert to this ideology in prison.

You mentioned that Americans harass and interrogate Moslems and failed to mention whether these events happened before or after 911. You seem to be well educated, so please take few minutes and think why US has changed after 9/11/2001. I assure you that there is a valid reason.

US is pretty accommodating country with so many immigrants from different cultural and religious back grounds, unfortunately one group pose a national threat and we just start to pay attention to it. Let me give you a simple question, what would your country do if a group of people are trying to harm its citizens? What even worse is that this group is following its holy book instructions.

US did not kick Arabs or Moslems out of the country after 911. As a matter of fact, protection was provided to them in places like Dearborn, MI and others. Arabs from your country were treated with utmost respect before 911; as a matter of fact they were treated better than our closest allies (i.e. UK citizens and Israelis).

Of course, this has to change due to obvious reasons. The problem with USA is not its bad treatment of Moslems but the pace our country react to national threats. It seems the politicians shy away from naming the ideology that wants to eliminate us. The ideology that believes my way or the highway.

The ideology that is preached every Friday in Mecca, Medina, Burida, Dammam and your hometown, Afeef. This group is not ignorant as you implied. Most of them studied Arabic, Quran &Hadith, Islam, Arabs thinking and psychology and came to the conclusion that living peacefully with Islam ideology is impossible.

Unfortunately, it's going to take few presidents after McCain or Obama to get it right.

It's not my intention to degrade your people or beliefs but it's my intention to name the devil by its name and try to influence my elected officials. I know this will be a long war and may take generation to win. You mentioned that we're seeking clash of civilization. I don't agree. It's clash between the civilized world and followers of ideology, who live in different dimension and time, or at least this is how I perceive it.

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