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To: Dale Baker who wrote (2341)	7/26/2005 8:41:39 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 541957

I have heard the same rhetoric on other hate-talk radio shows. It's hard to tell from that article whether this particular show was actually hateful. You'd have to have heard it to get a good feel. I don't listen to any talk radio so I don't have a context for how it fits into similar rhetoric. But there is a certain underlying logic to what he says. It's kind of like the old saw--if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. If Islam, the institution, tolerates this stuff, allows itself and its religion to be used, then it's part of the problem. We expect our institutions to self-moderate. If they don't, then it's not unreasonable to hold them partially accountable. I realize that Islam is not a centralized institution like the Catholic Church but I would think it would still have some informal policing powers and so far it doesn't seem to be exerting them. One guy even used the "Islam is a violent religion" I'm hard pressed to find any rationalization for that, but I can't so easily write off "Islam is a terrorist organization" as purely hateful, overdone, but not purely hateful.

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