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From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de
William Cloud Hicklin wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:43:09 -0400, Dirk Thierbach
> wrote:
>> William Cloud Hicklin wrote:
>>> Unfortunately bin-Laden & Co. are doing precisely what their founder
>>> commanded.
>> I have heard Muslims say otherwise.
>> BTW, Germany has a comparatively high percentage of Muslim immigrants.
>> The majority of those don't behave like Bin-Laden & Co. So either
>> they are all in rebellion against what their founder commanded, or
>> maybe the whole thing is a little bit more complex...
>>
> There's no need to wage jihad by violence where you can wage it by
> demographics.
You're not seriously proposing that all Muslims have as only goal the
jihad against everyone else, are you? So what's next? Send all Muslims
to Guantanamo, because they are potentially dangerous? Or maybe it's
easier to just set up concentration camps?
Christians have been doing crusades under the pretext that "God commanded
it." Can we now conclude that all Christians have as their only goal
war on non-christians, and are doing exactly what they religion tells
them to? Please get real.
I know some Muslims personally, and they are basically nice, ordinary
people. Very hospitable once you get to know them. Of course there
are also Muslim fanatics, in the same way there are Christian fanatics,
but that doesn't mean all of them are that way.
I really get worried when even intelligent people buy into completely
exaggerated prejudices. Terrorists are terrorists, no matter if they
are Muslim fundamentlists, Christian fundamentalists, or right-wing or
left-wing fundamentalists (we had some examples of the latter three types
in our history here). But that doesn't mean that the ideology
they represent in their original form is necessarily geared towards
fundamentalism and terrorism.
- Dirk, EOT, because that has nothing to do with Tolkien
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