J. van Baardwijk wrote: >At 18:48 25-10-2002 -0400, Joe Hale wrote: > >>I would like to believe "it's just a few fanatics who give Islam >>a bad reputation". However the roaring silence of the so called >>majority speaks volumes about where their sympathy lies. > >Bullshit. In the US, fanatical pro-life "Christians" have been >murdering doctors and blowing up abortion clinics to make their >point; following your reasoning, we would also have to condemn all >Christians because "the silence of the majority speaks volumes >about where their sympathies lies".
The difference is that the murderers and bombers are arrested, tried, and put in jail if found guilty by their fellow citizens, without pressure from the international community. Has a member of Hamas, for example, ever been arrested by fellow Muslims for assisting in blowing up a busload of children, for example? And if so, how often has it happened? Do you believe that the Taliban would have been deposed for its complicity in the 9/11 attacks without the intense pressure from the US and its allies? Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
