you're taking the longest path

Submitted by susan (Italy), May 9, 2007 at 06:06

"For, when you look at what is allowed under Islam, there is a lot that is antithetical to the dignity accorded to each person. Which is the best hallmark of the West."

that's like saying, the boat is sinking, let's try to take out the water with glasses and let's not take care of the huge hole that's in the middle.

As I presumed, you are talking about the typical american who is only interested in turkey as an ally against russia and against old europe. either islamic turkey or fascistic nationalistic "secular" (improper way to use the word secular here) has to be kept outside europe and the civilized world. they belong to islam.

"Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, China, and other countries who do not want to know about the dignity of the individual, that they be replaced by preparatory regimes."

you are putting china together with the other cesspoolian muslim countries. That is your biggest mistake, you put them all equally as "enemy" of usa.

China has got a long history and a civilization that islam never saw. China is on the rise economically, china doesn't treat women as inferiors, china tries to reduce the boom of his population. For this and many other reasons China is not to be considered as a muslim country.

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