On Tuesday 11 September 2001 18:34, Joel Hammer wrote:
| On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 06:21:08PM -0400, dep wrote:
| > On Tuesday 11 September 2001 18:05, Joel Hammer wrote:
| > | Before someone becomes an apologist for the Muslims, name me a
| > | country where Muslims live in appreciable numbers where they do
| > | not cause violent disturbances.
| >
| > the united states. it's the fourth largest religion here, and
| > there's been very little trouble -- certainly nowhere near as
| > much as from other groups joined in a special interest of one
| > sort or another.
|
| What do you mean by very little trouble?
i mean "very little trouble." the litany of attacks you provided were
without exception from groups outside the u.s., even though in the
initial wtc case and the lincoln tunnel case they did take two
apartments in the u.s.
the muslim communities here have been entirely peaceful. to say
otherwise would be to characterize the puerto rican community because
of the bombings by the faln decades ago.
i have no more sympathy for wild-eyed diaperheads than you do, and in
fact on one exciting afternoon in november 1993 i was chased at high
speed around two of the ring roads surrounding kuwait city by a
cranky iranian with an ak-47 -- when i got back to my hotel, the
safir, there was a fax under my door from the state department saying
to be concerned about iranians because rushdie was in the u.s. -- so
i have a little experience in this stuff. but it's a fallacy of logic
to take the position you have, because there is a difference between
saying "all terrorists are muslims" and saying "all muslims are
terrorists."
--
dep
one day, you'll wish it was now.
your wish has been granted.
don't waste it.
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