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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (6517)	10/11/2002 9:05:11 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 57110

Here we go again.... The nut is on the lose... charlotte.com The Charlotte Observer. Posted on Fri, Oct. 11, 2002 The clouded mind TV seems to bring out the worst in Jerry Falwell That Jerry Falwell. He gets on TV and just goes nuts. Remember a year ago when he said America had invited the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 by tolerating pagans, abortionists, feminists, homosexuals and civil liberties groups? "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve," he said. It was a statement that could have come verbatim from the Taliban handbook. Those Muslim crazies surely wouldn't put up with such folk the way the Land of the Free does. When America rose up to tell Mr. Falwell he was bonkers, he apologized. But apparently he didn't learn anything. Now he's in the news again for going on CBS TV and calling Mohammed a terrorist. Later, in a telephone interview with the Associated Press, Mr. Falwell both stood by his statement and distanced himself from its implications. He said he would never, ever say such a thing about Mohammed in a sermon or a book, but the TV correspondent asked him, so he said what he really thought. On the other hand, "I've said often and many places that most Muslims are people of peace and want peace and tranquility for their families and abhor terrorism,'' Mr. Falwell explained. "Islam, like most faiths, has a fringe of radicals who carry on bloodshed wherever they are. They do not represent Islam." Let's see if we've got this straight. By Mr. Falwell's reasoning, Mohammed, the founder of the religion, does not represent Islam, since Mr. Falwell considers him a terrorist. Or maybe we're the ones who are nuts for looking for some logic in Mr. Fawell's pronouncements. Back in the 1930s, a comic book hero named Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow") was said to have "the power to cloud men's minds." Apparently the television camera has such Cranston-like powers over Mr. Falwell. Maybe he is not an idiot, but he does tend to play one on TV.