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To: one_less who wrote (2245)	7/11/2007 4:44:21 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 4152

You misunderstand me. American Moslems need to speak as one in condemnation of terrorism--end of story. Maybe they do and it isnt heard. If you feel that way, ecuminical efforts are required. If there is another 9/11 or two or something even worse. American moslems will pay a steep price. We should do everything now we can do to prevent this. Liberal americans speaking tolerance is just not enough if a nuke goes off in NY. American Moslems need to be on the leading if not bleeding edge of the fight against the crazies in their midst. I dont think this to be impossible. And for me, i will preach tolerance for as long as it takes, but average Joe sixpack who now may think moslems are getting the short end of the stick will react with violence against those same folks if things get bad enough.

To: one_less who wrote (2245)	7/12/2007 1:37:32 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

You can't gather 100 people off the streets of America and expect them to have one voice that either condemns or supports any of the events of our nation You can get pretty close. 99.9% of Americans allow skinhead racist Nazis to parade, but we nearly unanimously declare them a bunch of extremist losers, and nearly unanimously would be ashamed to have ANY assosiation with them. Americans collectively have effectively denounced skinhead Nazis. Do we see anything even remotely like that in the (on this thread unmentionable) community which has radical extremist terrorists as one (arguably small, but who knows?) of their segments? No, what we read from the spokespeople for this (on this thread unmentionable) group is "Terrorism is always wrong, but lets talk about the wrongs committed against us throughout the world. Blah, blah, blah....." So the excuse that it isn't easy to get a crowd of Americans to agree on something doesn't hold much water. When the something is generally accepted as wrong by the crowd (such as skinhead Nazism, or polygamy), the crowd can easily unite and express its opposition. That the (on this thread unmentionable) group in question HASN'T gotten that message across to the rest of us indicates that there are likely a meaningful number within that group that DOESN'T think terrorism is wrong.