--- ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I digress. From where I sit, his view does > seem to be the view > of a vast silent majority of muslims. The worrisome > thing, though, is > that relentless pressure, suspicion, demonisation > and heckling to prove > their humanitarian credentials could easily change > that. > > Ritu
Why? I happen to agree with you about the beliefs of the world's Muslims, but reasonable people could easily _disagree_ with you, and say that the evidence is that a large fraction of the world's Muslims - possibly even a majority, but certainly a large fraction - do support terrorism, have universalist aspirations for their religion, and are willing to gain those aspirations _by force_. Certainly it is striking that _even in the US_, probably the single most successful country at assimilating other cultures (Muslims included), some of the most prominent Muslim-American organizations (CAIR, for example) act as apologists for terrorist groups. At some point, isn't there a responsibility on the _Muslim_ world to say that blowing up (for example) Jewish infants is not acceptable? So far, the Muslim world does not seem to have lived up to that responsibility even a tiny bit. We are the ones _being_ attacked, not the ones doing the attacking. Episcopalians aren't launching suicide bombing campaigns. It seems to me that the burden to prove bona fides should rest on the other side of the scales right now. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
