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To: RetiredNow who wrote (201980)	9/14/2004 3:43:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1573434

Whew! So much to say, I don't know where to start. I'll take it point by point, like you did, but I have to say I agree with many of your points. 1) I don't think 1.2 billion Muslims are morally and intellectually bankrupt, but I think that so far they have failed to LEAD the world in figuring out how to solve a problem that seems to be pervasive among them. How can they lead the world when their leaders are morally bankrupt? And the West has played no small part in the quality of that leadership. For an example, all through the 80s the UK, France, the US and Germany supported Saddam, sold him WMDs and provided general aid in his fight with Iran. We knew what a tyrant he was but we stood by him. There was no one more shocked than Saddam when Bush I attacked him in Kuwait. 2) Truth is lots of holocausts have occurred. I bet most people don't know that 20 million Russians died in WWII, along with the 6 million Jews. Many of them died in the same hate-inspired manner as the Jews. So the key reason I brought this up is that the world CANNOT allow the kind of hatred of Jews and westerners being spread in Muslim mosques and madrahsas to continue. Agreed but at the same time the West can not continue to support Israel's particular brand of manifest destiny. As for stopping the hate, you won't do it by trying to silence them. 3) Illiteracy is bad for society no matter where it is, in LA or in the Middle East. The difference is that the combination of Islam and illiteracy leads to international terrorism. LA gangs are localize terrorists and I think more should be done to squash existing ones including more stringent illegal alien laws and more money for education in LA. The same disease that afflicts LA gangs afflicts the Muslims. 4) I think you confuse freedom OF religion with freedom FROM religion. Freedom OF religion doesn't mean we need to erase all vestiges of the traditions that made this country great. This country was founded based on Christian morals and ideals and those have served us very well in guiding our policies. Seperation of church and state does not mean that we have become completely secular. Yes, it does............Jefferson and other FF made it very clear that they did not want a set up like in France or England. I am going to quit here...........you have too much going on in your post.

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