[Felix The Assassin]

Originally posted by PurpleXVI: And please, can we cut out the anti-Islam comments, here? I should like to think this place was free from bigotry. Comparing the Muslim fanatics that attack the West to Islam in general is like saying that the Unabomber is the way everyone from the West is, or Fred Phelps. Utterly ridiculous.

So true! However, Western society, and the media in particular is what allows these semantics to be garnered. I'm sure there are very few people here who has a person in another country from a different background, race, and ethnicity that they communicate with. Ahmed, Ramul, and Ariel are the exception for a few of us, but they and I share some life events that can only be seen through the eyes of the beholder, and told from the heart, and not the ego! ~Thou I'm a military transplant here, I'm considered just 'a-good-ole-boy' by association of where I have chosen to plant my trees, and not for who I am in reality!