What goes around comes around

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Nov 24, 2006 at 01:41

Pir Sahib wrote:

"why should we not ban those TV channels and magazines which export the western culture of sexual lust and pornography. "

Pir, it's obvious that Islam and the Western world have radically different outlooks on every aspect of life. So why shouldn't we just ban Islam from Western countries then? After all, Islam is antithetical to all aspects of American culture, and vice versa. And Islam of course, should ban all Western practices, goods, and culture from their lands.

So let me ask you...

If America were to agree to get out of the Muslim lands...if we removed all our troops, military bases, embassies, etc from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc, would you be happy? And if we did that, we should also remove all the monetary support we give to Islam, such as the billions we send every year to Egypt and the millions we send the PLO. Fair is fair, right? Why would you want our filthy Satanic money anyway?

I bet if that happened, the Muslim world would experience one of its lemming-like global temper tantrums because they'd realize the free ride was over. We would of course have to remove all the oil producing machinery and technology which we gave you in the first place....

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