To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (320639 ) 11/18/2002 10:24:03 PM From: Johannes Pilch Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667 If millions of Americans are practicing a religion and are not evil. Then how do you argue that anyone who says their religion is not evil is lying and believes that religion is evil. It must feel awful to be throttled in public - just awful. Don't exactly enjoy squashing a cow pattie once its down, but as you continue presenting the opportunity I may as well just do it... Not everyone is an idiot, contrary to how it simply must appear to your ostensibly warped theme park of a worldview. Many people understand the possibility that people who do not of habit directly commit evil terrorist acts, are yet capable of embracing a religion that is evil. Many muslims do not actually and directly murder people, but they support a religion that encourages muslims to murder because they have been indoctrinated in schools that teach them to hate, precisely as we find all over the middle-east. Others follow the evil because of a deception that it is not evil. Yet others claim to follow the evil religion but ignore the religion's clearly evil mandates. There are many other possibilities, but you will not be able to see them. It takes a reasonable mind, not a "beautiful" one.You say it's because those millions of Americans who are not evil are not relevant because non Americans of that religion hate America. What mental buffoonery. When we see you repeating this sort of thing despite the facts, we see dishonor. I will take this opportunity you've here given me to once again show the readers that despite leftoid complaints of "racism" and "bigotry," it is reasonable to declare irrelevant the alleged millions of Americans who are "supposed" to be "peaceful" muslims. How do we gauge the existence of these "peaceful" muslims, perhaps by the fact that a majority of muslims do not literally slash throats? It is a false gauge because to wreak the havoc across the world that we have seen now for decades, the majority of muslims obviously do not need to individually slash throats. All they need to do is remain silent, tacitly supporting the many stateless muslim cells of islamic murderers that live and move right in their "peaceful" muslim communities. All they need to do is cry "racism!" or "bigotry!" against their victims instead of utterly condemning their islamic brothers. All they need to do is funnel money to mosques, which funnel money to terrorists. All they need to do is precisely what they now do. I do not claim all muslims are evil. But I do not claim them good either. We must consider the matter in its proper perspective. We are not talking some PC fantasy world wherein we might all ignore one anothers' trivial shortcomings in the interest of false brotherhood. We are talking a life and death struggle against a system that is driven by religious edict to slaughter innocent humans. The millions of allegedly "good" muslims are irrelevant in this context because we have no real way to know of a certainty that they exist. In other words, when deadly cells of muslim terrorists clearly exist all over the world in allegedly "peaceful" muslim communities, and when these cells prove their existence by vaporizing national landmarks and thousands of lives, and when these muslim cells are gunning for my head from their comfortable existance within allegedly "peaceful" muslim communities, and when not a single allegedly "peaceful" muslim spiritual leader anywhere in the whole world will issue fatwa condemnation against the islamic murderers (but they quickly issue them against authors), then I legitimately hold muslim "peacefulness" with skepticism and you should too. Now that is just common sense. Muslims need to be challenged and they need to rise to the challenge, else it is utterly ridiculous to continue the mantra that they are "peaceful" when from their allegedly "peaceful muslim" communities all over the world muslims are cheering, exploding and slaughtering innocent men, women and children.