the common thread

Submitted by Mark Garber (United States), Feb 8, 2005 at 18:51

Why does everyone in the legal system and in the news media of the US, Canada, and the other countries where obvious hate crimes against Jews occur go out of their way to explain them away by any means possible - from drug use, to family problems, to psychiatric reasons?

As the Jews go, the Christians will go and then the Left wing liberal democrats will be in harm's way at last. As they themselves will be slaughtered by their good friends, the long suffering followers of the religion of peace, perhaps they'll realize that that the holy Koran is available to anyone to read right now and describes very nicely what the fate and future of Jews and other unbelievers in a society where hate crimes, when committed by radical Islamists are somehow not motivated by religious beliefs.

When will we as a culture that is free and open to all begin to believe and come to grips with the fact that there is a large and well organized group of people whe see themselves as Muslims first and foremost and that their world is divided into black and white, good and evil, Muslim and Unbeliever and that they have no gray area where all people can live together - their sworn belief is to convert or destroy the unbeliever. The fate of the Coptic Christians who spoke up for their beliefs in New Jersey should be our wake-up call - their fate may become our own. When will we wake up and will it be in time to save ourselves?

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