Raising awareness of Islam

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Jan 8, 2015 at 17:59

The 9/11 bombers should be given a prize, for raising American awareness of Islam. Sadly, President Bush was not one of those whose awareness was heightened.

I once had the book, "A Soldier With The Arabs", by John Bagot Glubb, the British commander of the Jordanian army that attacked Israel in 1948. Over the years, my mother gave the book away to my nephew, when I was away from home. I don't know if he ever read the thing; but after a tour in the military, his father returned the book to me with a bullet hole in it. Someone in that family obviously had gotten an "enhanced awareness of Islam" -- and of British hanky-panky with the Muslims to boot.

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