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To: kumar who wrote (58432)	11/22/2002 11:19:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It is an unfortunate incident. nothing can be done to change it. I have opined many times, and I'll repeat : "Dont blame a religion, because there are a few that abuse it". I don't blame "Islam", I blame "Islamism". It's not a few bad apples, kumar, it's an ideology, and an ideology in ascendancy at this moment. When you add up the adherents and sympathizers of Islamism, you get many more than 100K I'm afraid. I think the number is likely to be closer to 100 million than 100 thousand. Saying "don't blame the religion" is both true and irrelevant. It's like saying during the Third Reich, "don't blame the Germans, they are a great European nation and culture being abused by the Nazis". The statement misses the main point - that those with power were ALL Nazis, and they had gotten most of the Germans to follow them and cowed the rest. Just so, the voices I hear out of Islam are 99% extreme. The moderate voices are silenced in most Muslim countries. When you hear a liberal voice, chances are the author is writing from a safe haven in London or Los Angeles. What does it matter to me if most Muslims are moderate if they will not fight for their own civilization?