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America: More Than Just a Country Americans are, by nature, a forward-looking people. From the earliest days of the republic our country has been, among all the nations of the world, a place where the realization of dreams is limited only by our willingness to expend the time and effort necessary to bring them to fruition. Unlike those in most parts of the Third World, where the future is defined by whether or not they have enough food for the next day or for the next week, we Americans tend to think of the long-term future. What sort of career do we want to follow? What level of education will we need to follow a chosen career? Do we want to marry and have a family? And if we marry and have a family, how will we feed, clothe, and educate our children while putting aside enough money for a comfortable retirement? These are all forward-looking questions of monumental importance. However, we have arrived at a time in history when it is just as important to look backward - to get a good fix on who we are and what it is that made us what we are. Why? Because, for the first time, we are confronted by an alien culture that is determined to destroy Western civilization and to impose upon all of Europe and North America a culture of misery and oppression where the only reward exists in the afterlife. Unless we decide now, in the early years of the twenty-first century, that the nation we leave for our children and grandchildren will be exactly the kind of nation that we have enjoyed, by the time we reach the end of this century we will be nothing more than a footnote to history. We will become the new home of Islam and this once-great bastion of freedom and prosperity will become just another Islamic cesspool of poverty, pain, misery, and religious oppression. If you can imagine our great cities as ghost towns; if you can imagine our Interstate highways as roads to nowhere - strips of vacant concrete overgrown with weeds; if you can imagine our vast fertile plains turned to dust; if you can imagine an America where women are required to dress all in black, from head to toe, venturing outside their homes only when accompanied by a male member of their family. if you can imagine these things, then you can understand why we must decide, now, what we want our country to be, and what we want it not to be. However, given our traditions of openness and inclusiveness, along with our constitutional guarantees of religious freedom, we are bound to confront some very difficult questions along the way. For example, if we are to allow all religious denominations to practice their religions freely and openly, including Islam, do we have what it takes to demand reciprocity for Christians and Jews in Islamic states - as the Vatican now proposes? Should we be required to grant Muslims religious freedom in our country, while Christians and Jews are prohibited from practicing their religious beliefs in Islamic states. under penalty of death? And if we allow Muslims to have complete religious freedom, will we also allow their Muezzins to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers five times a day - at dawn, at midday, in mid-afternoon, at sunset, and two hours after sunset - in every city and town in America? And if we find a way to prohibit them from doing so, how long will it be before Muslims and the ACLU use the "equal protection" clause of our Constitution to prohibit Christian churches from sounding their steeple bells on Sunday morning? It's a constitutional fait accompli. Get ready for it. In Minneapolis, the Metropolitan Airport Commission has received a fatwa (Muslim religious edict) from the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society saying that Sharia Law prohibits cab drivers from transporting passengers who are in possession of alcoholic beverages. They may also refuse to transport people with dogs, including blind travelers with seeing-eye dogs, because Muslims consider the saliva of dogs to be unclean. The Associated Press reports that, each month, about 100 people are denied cab service at the Minneapolis airport, where three-fourths of the 900 cab drivers are Somali Muslims, because they were carrying items prohibited under Muslim law. As rock star/activist Bono has said, "America is more than just a country; it's an idea." Yes, America is more than just a country. It is an idea that is, and always will be, diametrically opposed to much of what Islam stands for. The Minneapolis taxi driver fatwa is just one small example of how Western-style freedoms and Islam are incompatible and can never coexist on the same soil. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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