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To: Cyprian who wrote (165654)	7/10/2005 11:16:53 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	of 281500

All those biblical verses you cite were, like the verses in the Koran, written by men creating God in their own image. This doesn't alter the fact that Islam today is badly in need of reform. Who is committing all these suicide bombings and other terrorism, targeting ordinary people going about their affairs ? Islamists. Much as I dislike the sanctimonious Religious Right in the US, if you look at the charitable work by Christian missionaries in the third world, it really is exemplary. Certainly these workers would like to convert people to Christianity, but they don't preach hate. You don't see Christian missionaries coming into town firing Kalachnikovs in the air. Contrast this with so-called "charitable" Islamist organizations like Hamas, it's like night and day. But Bush has been a complete fool for getting us involved militarily in Iraq. The real competition going forward is economic, and if Muslims want to stay back in the dark ages with medieval rhetoric from someone like bin Laden, that's to their economic disadvantage, while Asia and the West pass them by. We don't need to be over there getting in their hair on some flimsy pretext.

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