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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
we truly are at war with criminal terrorists, not with Islam.
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And what if Islam is at war with America, American values, American attitudes, American people and American religious freedoms? What then?
By at war I mean, at odds with, and presenting a hostile and revolutionary life ideology, with implimentation through proselytisation, terrorism, the free market, politics and any other means.
What then? [/QUOTE]There is no "what then" because that is not the case, ask Muhammad Ali.
Like President Bush said: terrorists have hijacked a religion.
Certain extremist Christians are at odds with the American people, American values, American attitudes, and American religious freedom but doesn't mean they all are. Same logic applies to Islam.
Casting Muslims with a broad brush and painting Islam
on the whole as at "war" with America is nothing more than a sensational generalization. There is no "what then".
Of course if extremists like this General use there power to wage holy war and demonize the "whole" of Islam for some of it's self- proclaimed "parts" then we may very well have a war with Islam. For Islam would have no choice but to defend itself from perceived "Christian agression".
[ 10-17-2003, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]