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Reader comment on item: [Hasan Akbar and] Murder in the 101st Airborne
Submitted by Boris Frenkel (United States), Mar 25, 2003 at 16:42
What is common between us, Americans and Islamist extremists? We all pay the ultimate price to learn hard lessons of life. Extermists will continue to die until they learn that violence does not pay. We will continue to die until we learn that political correctness does not pay and has nothing to do with respect to other nations and faiths.The difference still remains that they learn their lessons from the position of evil and we learn our lessons from the position of good. I am not sure our lesson is easier. And the first topic we have to learn is that loyalty to your country and care of your citizens should have priority before loyalty to your religion and care of people of your own faith.
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| 3 | Wake up True Amerians [81 words] | AZH | Nov 23, 2009 06:03 | 164912 | |
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| 1 | Wrong Cecil: read the diary entries [78 words] | Abu Nudnik | Nov 20, 2009 13:08 | 23678 | |
| 1 | Now that the verdict is in... [477 words] | D Mead | May 4, 2005 10:58 | 21988 | |
| Americans were defeated in Vietnam and so be in Iraq & Afghanistan too. [150 words] | Mohammad, CPA | Jan 21, 2010 23:31 | 21988 | ||
| 1 | Our dear CPA the wannabe Arab [329 words] | dhimmi no more | Jan 22, 2010 18:41 | 21988 | |
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