Start by taking your own advice, Moderate Muslim

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Mar 10, 2007 at 20:45

MM wrote: "That is not freedom of religion."

Yes, it is. ... religious freedom does not entitle a religion that advocates our destruction to exist. Islam should have religious freedom in America only after it has reformed into a peaceful religion.

MM wrote: "We need to work to solve the problem in the here and now"

What's this "we" stuff you keep talking about? "We" don't need to do anything. It is the Muslims who must shed their arrogance and ignorance, admit that their religion is all screwed up, and commit to reform. That is a pre-condition to any meaningful progress and cannot be set aside or glossed over.

MM wrote: "I will support anything that stops the destruction brought on by radical terrorists, as long as it does not harm Islam as well."

And you obviously consider killing terrorists and deporting subversives as "hurting Islam". Hence, we cannot have any agreement, as you have put an unacceptable condition on a peace process.

MM wrote: "Islam is not behind this. A couple bad men are."

Typical Muslim propaganda that flies in the face of verifiable reality. It sickens me to hear this propaganda spewed, and sickens me even moreso to think that so many Muslims actually believe this absurd lie. Once again I challenge you to prove this absurd! If what you say is true, you should easily be able to point out to me an Islamic country that grants equal rights to all religions, that respects other cultures, that does not supress education and free speech.

You should be able to show me organizations of Muslims with memberships in the tens of millions or hundreds of millions who are actively and aggessively working to weed out the subversive "couple of bad men" who are perverting your "religion of peace". And while you're at it, if it's just a "couple of bad men" committing all this terror, how is it that we're killing them by the thousands, yet they keep coming? Are they perpetually reincarnating villains who are simply hell bent on painting Islam in a bad light? And if so, why are they picking such a huge religion instead of focusing on some tiny fringe religion? Are you going to answer any of these questions?

MM wrote: "This whole war on terror thing would have been a heckuva lot easier if we hadnt invaded Iraq."

Sure, then Saddam would still be funding suicide/homicide bombers in Israel and paying them to blow up innocent women and children. And he would still be making back door deals with Al Qaeda. MM wrote: " If we had worked with Iran and Syria more after the war." Yeah, we can see how anxious they were to "help", seeing as how Syria accepted most of Saddam's WMDs in the months leading up to the war, while also funding terrorist groups like Hezbollah.

MM wrote: "If we had worked to bring democracy to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, even as we condemn democracy in Gaza."

Yeah, Saudi Arabia sure is itching for democracy! We can see how anxious they are to let Christians have equal rights. We see what happened when the so-called Palestinians got to vote. They voted in the admitted terrorist group Hamas. Of course we condemn that vote. What civilized person would not condemn voting in a group that advocates genocide and a second Holocaust? MM, you should try telling your fellow Muslims to take your advice, instead of trying to push your stories on people who know better.

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