disagree...?

Submitted by David L (United States), Aug 17, 2010 at 20:31

There is nothing in your rebuttal to point #1 that actually constitutes rebuttal. I agree with all of what you said, and there is no part of it that is discordant with what I said.

Re: point #2:

The truth is that Islam is not a religion...

I can only assume you meant to say something else, because obviously Islam is a religion. The problem is not Islam though--the problem is Islamic fundamentalism. Islamic fundamentalism encourages murder of infidels, oppression of women, hijacking of government, rejection of economic liberalism, etc., and therefore Islamic fundamentalism generally results in primitive, backwards societies. And let's not cite the Koran in a blanket indictment of Islam: if you dig through an accurate translation of the Bible, it is equally nasty, and yet Christians and Jews don't blow themselves up in pizzerias.

The problem is not, nor has it ever been, religion itself--the problem is the way it is wielded, and most of the world's Muslims, unfortunately, wield it as a weapon. But it is wrong to apply that assumption to all Muslims, and in so doing, alienate the ones who most effectively fight the Islamists by building their center in the heart of Manhattan.

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