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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: SirRealist who wrote (44350)9/16/2002 2:04:08 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
So, yeah, a direct comparison with Islamists does not hold, as you say. But dismissing fundie televangelists words as 'general rhetoric' isn't quite right when their specific solutions are pretty extreme and promote a religious domination of all activities that is anti-everything-non-Christian.

sr, certainly; we are talking about different contexts. Within the American political context, Robertson is extreme, and I for one certainly don't want to lend support to his reinterpretation of the Constitution. But to compare the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamists, he would have to advocate a takeover of the US by Christian militias and a forced conversion of the population to Christianity. That is so far from what he proposes that the comparison is almost ridiculous.
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