Response to "Obama: Wrong on Mosque Issue by Jerrold L. Sobel

Submitted by Ilbert Phillips (United States), Aug 22, 2010 at 03:01

Dear Jerrold:

Thank you for your comments. While there is some danger in just citing religious texts, what we know is that a sufficient number of Muslems take their religious texts literally, and as a result go around killing thousands of people around the world. No other religioh has killed a fraction of the numbers being killed in the name of Islam. While I supported President Bush, his assertion that Islam is a "religion of peace" is not a statement for him to make. I want to hear an assembly of Imams state that Islam is a religion of peace and that they object to the demontrations regarding the cartoons in the Danish newspapers, the murders in Holland over the making of a film that shows how badly Muslem women, the shabby and murderous treatment of gays, children, and daughters in many countries and for these Imam to issue a fatwa to stop such practices.

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