To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (36370 ) 8/7/2002 6:13:40 PM From: Nadine Carroll Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500 You point out rightly that people in Germany should have put a stop to Hitler's hatemongering. He and his henchmen wrote and distributed information about the "evil" Jewish presence and what terrible people they were so that Germans started treated them as outcasts, kind of like the Muslims here are being treated. Tell me, Karen, when were the anti-Muslim Nuremburg laws passed? The ones forbidding non-Muslims to marry Muslims, forbidding Muslims to work in all professions, and forcing Muslims to wear yellow crescents badges? I must have missed it. There is a world of difference between pointing out the dangers of a subculture (whether gangs or Islamist, which does not mean the same as Muslim, in case you're wondering) using their own words and actions, and propagandizing against a whole group by making up lies against them, which is what Hitler did. I do not say, I have never said, that most Muslims should be tarred with this brush. But when you assure me that such beliefs are marginal, by which I understand 'it's just a few nutcases, which we can safely ignore', I don't believe you. I think it's more than "marginal", and even if it's still a very small minority of 1% or 5% of American Muslims (I really don't know), that's still enough to be very worrisome when they openly advocate violence against infidels like us. They are also tapping into a world-wide movement that is clearly well financed and actively fighting wars in Israel, Algeria, Chechnya, Kashmir and Pakistan. How you can just brush these concerns off is beyond me. Did the reality of Sept 11ths have no effect on your thinking?