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Capitulating? I don't know that two wars over nine years with no end in site really counts as capitulating. But then, I don't get all my opinions from Fox News and my pastor.Americans need to stop capitulating to their thuggery and intimidation.
Are you trying to pick a fight? I don't get any of those news services here and I don't see what your articles have to do with what I said.mcswan said:Is that the information you get from CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times?
Are you trying to pick a fight? I don't get any of those news services here and I don't see what your articles have to do with what I said.
I was thinking it was about ignorance...on both sides. I still think the Muslim reaction should be "go ahead...we'll print more...you can burn a book but you can't touch the words...which are eternal in nature". The fact that they get so bent out of shape because somebody burns a book or draws Muhammad says a lot about their ability to reason. Just sayin'...
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Boiled down point. God sacrificed His only begotten son as a substitute for our sin, however; if the muslims won't except that gift.....they will be sacrificing ours and their sons on the battlefield! There is no muslim nation that resembles or even comes close to what freedoms America has!
Media snowball? You mean the media hype the news, and gullible people get all excited?
Hate crimes against Muslims rare, FBI data shows | McClatchy
Inconvenient Truth: 10 Times More Hate Crimes Against Jews Than Muslims | NewsBusters.org
"Another interesting data point: 4.7 percent of hate crimes in 2008 were motivated by anti-Catholic bias. Another 3.7 percent were anti-Protestant. So from a raw numbers perspective, there were more hate crimes against Christians in America in 2008 than there were against Muslims. Given our large Christian population, it's true that each Christian is far less likely to be victimized, but the numbers still show that religious haters have not been singling out Muslims."
Is that the information you get from CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times?
One of my friends summed it up as thus: If the body of Jesus was discovered, and people start burning the bones, how would you feel? That is how much the Qur'an as a book means to Muslims.
The Muslim reactions to burning Qur'ans isn't necessarily overreacting if you understand what the Qur'an means to Muslims. For many Muslims, the message and the paper are not independent; if you destroy the book, you physically destroy the words of Allah. That's why they always read from the Arabic, because if you translate it then it's no longer the words of Allah.
One of my friends summed it up as thus: If the body of Jesus was discovered, and people start burning the bones, how would you feel? That is how much the Qur'an as a book means to Muslims.
People know that there are a minority of muslims out their who are violent and will want to re-taliate in a un-civil manner. Yet still they press on.
Good communication and effective persuasion and influence requires that you deal with other peoples ir-rational thoughts.
And by altering our behavior around them, they win. They want to be violent, fine. We should be more violent towards them.
And killing them does that quite effectively.
And by altering our behavior around them, they win. They want to be violent, fine. We should be more violent towards them.
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