At 17:32 13-9-01 -0700, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> >This is precisely why I feel that all those "let's strike back with
> >everything we've got" advocates are way out of line: it is exactly
> >their kind of rantings that lead to agression towards people in the
> >US who's only "crime" it is that they pray to a different God.
>
><sarcasm> What a coincidence, that's the same crime *we're* guilty of in
>their eyes! </sarcasm>
>
>That out of the way, most of us feel that those who would turn on our own
>people because of this need to be punished as well. *Most* of us know that
>most of the Muslims in this country aren't involved. Do you just not have
>any extremists, racists, or morons in your country or something, that you'd
>paint us all with that brush based on a few jackasses?
Good grief. I did not "paint you all with that brush" -- I merely mentioned
that *some* people are ranting, and that such rantings lead to agression. I
never said that US citizens are en masse attacking Muslims.
As for extremists, racists and other morons: we most certainly have those
over here too.
Jeroen
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