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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I'm glad to see you realize the bigotry in blaming (or expecting an apology from) any wasp other than the two that stung your kid (or wishing the wasps would condemn the tactics of the stingers). All this hoopla about there being an issue among many Muslims concerning the tendency to advocate or tacitly support the use of terrorist tactics is just discrimination against Muslims. Nineteen individual Muslims were responsible for the Towers and their inhabitants going down and nobody else period. Nobody has any business examining anything like the sentiment on the Arab Street, funding of those and other terrorists (by Mosques or other funding) etc., or encouraging a more vocal and public dialogue among influential Muslim groups. People like Fouad Ajami who want to see this dialogue? They're just "bigots" spewing "hatred" and they don't have "God on their side." Carry on
The cheering by these Egyptian residents of the WTC tower collapse has no broader meaning whatsoever beyond the men pictured. We should not expect anyone to condemn terrorist tactics and the loss of innocent human lives and to do so is bigotry. That they are Muslim is just a coincidence. Surely, hoardes of Irish Catholics stood in the streets of Dublin cheering too
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Sorry. Your first picture didn't appear. However, from the url I will assume it is what is described as a person jumping from the Twin Towers. But I'm sure he or she was alive at the time, so we shouldn't assume you're sinking to gutter-level sensationalism or trying to appeal to peoples' baser instincts.
And people like Fouad Adjami aren't suggesting that any Muslim who fails to condemn the acts of terrorists is a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer. You are.
And you can dress it up any way you want. At the end of the day, I still see you preaching hate and fear. And that's as big a threat to our society as any terrorist. So I'm going to keep calling you on it. Because we need to foster a dialogue based on something other than hate and fear. Before it leads to action with no aim other than inducing terror.
