Ridiculous...

Submitted by Pat (United States), Feb 3, 2006 at 09:46

Some of these comment illustrate enormous ignorance.

Muslims, Islam, whatever you want to be called - is there ANYTHING that does not offend you?....You have to calm down. The civilized world is not going to tolerate your nonsense for much longer. In the nuclear, stealth, aircraft carrier, smart bomb era, government sponsored religious fascism, active and open pursuit of WMDs and jihad are all bad ideas. Really bad.

Israel and the Middle East are the "homeland" of Judaism (and Christianity for the matter) too. Share it. As for the Jews, leave them alone or they will kill you - they CAN you know. Oh the rest of the world will moan about it a bit but not do much and many of your faithful will be dead - perhaps in heaven with virgins etc - but probably just dead.

I find it utterly ludicrous and reprehensible that Hamas is the now the ruling party on Palestine and Iran is begging for an airstrike. Their actions and rhetoric are totally unacceptable. Iran's pursuit of nuclear programs is akin to your neighbor building a cannon in his back yard and pointing it at your house and asking you not to worry about it. In the meantime you can overhear him telling his children how great it will be when they use it to blow up your house. Would YOU wait until the cannon goes off before doing somethying about it?

For God's sake, WHERE is the voice of the Moderate Muslim?? Where is the secular voice of reason in the Middle East? Where is the desire of the middle east to become part of a modern global community where freedom of choice and freedom of voice is now more the rule than the exception? Please, Nation of Islam, for your own sakes, get on board and learn to at least tolerate your neighbors. Otherwise Islam will be pursuing a war they cannot win. Jersualem and Mecca alike will be vaporized before the Med runs red with the blood of infidels. That, gentle readers, would be unfortunate.

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