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To: Road Walker who wrote (178177)	11/18/2003 8:34:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575981

JF, Give me a break, if you really believe that...! What do YOU think they would do if they had the wealth of the United States? Spend it on SUVs, houses, french fries, and lawsuits like we do? By the way, I never said they're all going to come across the Atlantic with guns a-blazing. I'm just saying that they would indeed do whatever it takes to convert the entire world to Islam. That's how strong their faith in Allah is. To deny this is to deny their faith and its significance, except whenever you want to fit it into your "Blame America First" rants. Do you propose a non-secular response, a "crusade"? And to think that I'm the one supposedly framing this issue in "black-n-white." No, we're a secular nation by design, so it's only natural that we try and solve problems via secular solutions. But we've done so much to get "God" out of the public and turn this nation into a religion-free zone that most of us have forgotten the significance of religion. Only after 9/11, and only for a brief while, did we remind ourselves the significance of it. After at, it was business and partisan politics as usual, a.k.a. a "return to normalcy." By the way, I remember talking to a Muslim coworker several years ago. (This was before 9/11; I regret having lost touch with him after that.) Amazingly, we saw a lot of things eye-to-eye, including our respective faiths, how much they mean to us, and how most Americans, like the people in The Matrix (his favorite movie at the time), couldn't see anything outside the secular world. Anyway, I'm not trying to instigate any sort of counter-crusade. (The fact that you even mentioned that makes me wonder.) I'm just trying to open up another viewpoint and make the picture clearer. You don't have to let go of your disapproval of Bush and his actions. You just have to realize that you might be forgetting or dismissing a very important part of the picture. Tenchusatsu