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American goodwill, in shackles
How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.
By P.W. Singer [2007-06-26]

  • "Vapid Prejudice Against Islam?" Really?

    You state that, "it'll be impossible to win hearts and minds in the Muslim world as long as a vapid prejudice against Islam continues to grow in our political discourse and on our airwaves."

    Pause. "Vapid prejudice?" "Win hearts and minds in the Muslim world?"

    Alexis de Toqueville nearly 200 years ago wrote:

    "I studied the Kuran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself."

    Any reasonably intelligent person can read the Koran and Hadith for themselves and study history for how Islam has been applied and enforced over the last 1,400 years, and continues to be.

    Your slur that telling the truth about Islam is "vapid prejudice" rings as hollow as somebody suggeting, back in the '30s, that Mein Kampf would lead to no good.

    Or would you suggest that we better had tried to "win hearts and minds" of Nazis?

    -- RobertGlass
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    Monday, June 25, 2007 09:09 PM
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