--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > It is perhaps the inherent religious chauvinism of > host countries that makes Muslims feel > disenfranchised when they emmigrate. However, I > don't want to give this theory too much credence > either (even though it is my own theory :)), > because strange as it may seem, home-grown > terrorism has escaped America (thus far) and > America is the ultimate chauvinist when it comes > to Christianity. > Mario responds: > This impression is demonstrably and provably false and uses a very small and private segment of America to make a wildly invalid comment about the whole. > >From the US Constitution on down, the US is a nation of laws and not of men and therefore officially and legally the most secular and least chauvinistic nation on earth, with independent checks and balances built into its three legged form of government. > A recent example is the US Supreme Court's decision that Geneva Convention protections be provided to irregular, un-uniformed Muslim enemy combatants who represent none of the signatories of the Geneva Conventions. > How anyone who knows anything about America can make a moral equivalence or any religious comparison between the obsessively secular US and the theocracies of the Muslim countries is beyond belief. Every national Muslim organization in America has acknowledged that it is one of the very few countries where all Muslims can practice their religion free of intimidation by their religious fanatics. It shows how far the critics of this country will go in order to besmirch it at every opportunity, even squeezing their latent hostility into discussions of totally unrelated subjects. >
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