Reflections on an Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan

Submitted by Fazal Habib Curmally (Pakistan), Aug 26, 2010 at 00:12

Dear Jeff, Greetings. You have given a detailed point by point breakdown of what I have said. In reply I will only say this that the bastion of democracy the USA, has a Resolution like HR 1553. It has shameful prisoner of prisons like Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay even if they have 15 Americans there.What America has done in Iraq and and Afghanistan has shown there is no difference between the Nazi Germany and the USA except there were the Nuremburg trials for German war crimes whereas the US leaders have gotten off scot free. I suggest you read Seymour Hersh's book Chain of Command, Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack and The Rise of the Vulcans by James Mann which I bought in the USA in 2004. The attack on Iraq was a calculated cold blooded attack which the UN did not back initially.

What is under discussion is the above captioned subject and America's attitude and not what Iran does. Of this be sure. What Saddam did was in Iraq and not in the USA. of that be sure.I have failed to understand how Saddam's actions irked the USA. Incidentally, Pakistan still has close to 2-2.5 million Afghan Refugees from the 1979 conflict. You call us Islamists but we have put the taliban to the sword in my country and are still fighting them. We have our share of extremists in Pakistan of that be sure. But by and large an infamous document like HR 1553 has not been tabled so far in any house in Pakistan, to the best of my knowledge.

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