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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (194515)	8/2/2006 12:40:59 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

if the values of a political organization are so meritorious, then they should not need to intimidate or undermine the democratic process and the institutions that preserve that system. They should be able to take open opposition and criticism without responding with force and intimidation. Hawk, you could swap the "political" for "religious". This is one of the fatal hypocritical flaws in Islam. You speak against Islam in any of these arab/persian countries and you might as well hang a sign saying "kidnap torture and kill my family and I" around your neck. This is one of the reasons that I consider Islam to be a dead religion. It's incapable of change thanks to the power grabbing (and misering) of the leading clerics. Any criticism of Islam, no matter how small, is met with chants of "heretic" and public condemnation usually followed by a first class mobbing. No religion can be healthy under these conditions.