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To: Keith Feral who wrote (199067)	8/24/2006 12:16:17 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's sad that the Muslims kill all of the people trying to report on the sad state of affairs the Muslims must endure. However, it just reminds me that the Muslims have no interest in any part of civil rights or the truth. They only want to protect their violent interests and miedeval traditions. Keith, I'm going to have to diverge with you on painting all muslims with the same brush. I believe their religion has been hijacked by fanatics and most are too intimidated to counter their aggression. I worked with quite a few muslim-americans in Iraq, most of them translators, and we spent many a night trying to figure out where more muslims haven't spoken out. We basically agreed that this factor of intimidation, as well as lack of viable political and economic alternatives have kept many of them silent (or understanding of how the benefits of these alternatives, when properly implemented could make their lives better). Having never known anything other than one authoritarian/totalitarian regime after another, they've resolved to just attempt to stay alive and carve out and accumulate sufficient wealth to eventually emigrate. And if they cannot emigrate, they just keep "whistle past the graveyard" and hope that they won't incur the wrath of these fanatics. There's a civil war underway in the Islamic religion between fanatics and moderates, and currently the fanatics have the upper hand. But I think we have an interest in encouraging this civil war, so that moderate muslims can no longer ignore the threat that the fanatics pose to them. But when we bring down this Islamo-Fascist trend, we must be prepared to replace it with a progressive and moderate ideology. Hawk