Join the ranks of the delusional

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Jan 17, 2007 at 04:51

Bryan, if you truly believe what you just said:

"Islam is a religion, same as Christianity"

then you've joined the ranks of the delusional. What is "delusional"? Delusional is clinging to a belief that is invalidated by proof. Islam is nothing like Christianity. Christians are out in the field feeding and clothing poor kids...Islam is out in the field committing rape, beheadings, and genocide. Christianity's later peaceful teachings supercede its earlier violent ones. Islam's later violent teachings supercede its (few) earlier peaceful ones. They are like night and day.

"But to say all Muslims are Islamists dedicated to radical Islam is not only wrong but its a stereotype.'

Ooooh! Ooooh! Let's not throw scary words like "stereotypes" around! You might intimidate us into changing our beliefs! Not. Stereotypes are generated in all cases from a core truth, a kernel of truth. They are not just randomly and arbitrarily made up. Those who you call "moderate" Muslims are doing nothing to defeat and rid their religion of the supposedly tiny minority of radicals. With 2-6 million Muslims in America, why haven't there been any significant marches condemning terror? Where are they doing anything to clean up their religion? At the lowest possible numbers (2 million), if only one-fourth of one percent (0.0025%) of them rallied, that would come to 5,000 attendees. So where are they?

Can you answer that?

I do notice they come out in droves to whine to the tv camera though, when we throw some suspicious imams off an airplane, or when one of theirs wins an election, or when a terrorist act is committed against America.

Explain that.

"As for what Israel does to Palestinians, thousands have been killed by the IDF over 60 years"

Boo hoo hoo. Funny how you skew the facts here. How conveniently you omit the truth. For example, in 1992, more than twice as many so-called Palestinians were killed by their fellow Palestinains than were killed by Israelis.

You also omit the fact that the Israelis target armed terrorists and not women and children, while the so-called Palestinians target women and children and unarmed civilians. You conveniently neglect to mention that the cowardly Palestinians hide amongst civilians, making collateral damage an almost assured result if Israel has any hope of getting rid of the terrorists. You ignore the fact that when the Israelis target a known terrorist house, they call the terrorist on the cell phone to warn him first, which results in the terrorist and his fami escaping. The so-called Palestinians have taken advantage of this absurd tactic by forming human shields on the roofs of houses targetted by the Israelis, who then suspend bombing in order to avoid civilian casualties (even though those human shields are equally guilty of terror).

If you're going to criticize Israel at least have the honesty and integrity to paint the whole picture instead of engaging in anti-Semitic, one-sided propaganda.

"Islam is not the enemy - radical Islam is."

Radial Islam is a redundancy. Why don't you go study their history and their religion and come back when you understand?

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