Fundamentalist Islam is the term used when you want to say that the violence that is performed in direct relation to the Koran or Hadith is something done by 'those folk over there". That it's not done by civilized, modern Muslims but by some uneducated, poor, back woods (or desert) soul. Problem is, many (and in some cases most) of these things are done by civilized, modern, affluent, educated people who's dedication to the uncivilized aspects of their holy works is detrimental to others. Wait. Sorry. Uncivilized by modern, western standards that is unfairly being applied to anothers culture in a pure display of colonialism.
8 million in the US vs. how many hundreds of millions in the middle east and other places where these things are not so uncommon? And of those 8 million in the US, what's the statistical significance of the amount of honor killings (reported and mis-reported)? 'accidental' terrorist attacks like driving into crowds. Polygamy? Chanting "Kill the Jews" and "Hitler didn't do a good enough job". You know, things from their holy books. On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > while Islam (to one degree or another) is still mired in theirs. > > > No, fundamentalist Islam is. Islam in the middle east is. OTHER than the > article that Gruss started all this with, how many beheadings have > happenned > in the US by Muslims? There's 8 million Muslims in the US, and I could only > find 1 report of a US Muslim beheading anyone in the first 15 pages of my > google search. Does that sound like a systemic problem with common practice > Islam? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288609 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
