Ernie: I have no idea why Barry's e-mail address uses "Jake." Never asked. But I've always known him as Barry. Point of clarification. And, no, I didn't take the part of salesman for Centroids because I wanted re-inforcements in debates hereabouts. That may happen, although now and then Barry and I disagree about Islam, but the larger reason had to do with the broad nature of group interests. Plus this is an election year and I told him, 100 % guaranteed, that political discussions get rather interesting on our group as elections approach Also, we are a bunch of regular guys ( plus one invisible woman ) and Radical Centrists are good to talk to / with about all kinds of things. Billy ================================================= In a message dated 2/9/2010 11:24:19 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi Jake, On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Good morning, nice to meet you, cyberally speaking. Likewise. :-) > The threat of jihadist Islam is real, no doubt. Yeah, I know, Billy has been beating me over the head with that for years. I think he may have brought you on board to help. :-P > Just look at those formerly out-of-the-way places like Ethopia, Thailand, Eretria, The > Maldives...all now bubbling with jihadists and ever-increasing Islamic > ideology. Any policy that the West decides upon is based in an incorrect > mindset which says that all parties are equal, and deserving of the same > Western values/views as anybody else. So far, I am with you. > Islam, as defined and practiced today by over 120M Muslims says that they are one (ummah) and that > anything done to one Muslim is done to all, thus the continuous calls for > unity and emnity against non-Muslims. Okay, here is where I got a little confused by Billy, so hopefully you can clarify. I usually see a number for around a billion Muslims in the world. So are you saying that there's only a subset of around 120M or so that we really need to worry about? If so, how would you define and label that subset? -- Ernie P. _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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