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Thread #70032   Message #1195775
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-May-04 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Lies, Lies, Lies
Subject: RE: BS: Lies, Lies, Lies
From previous posts I am sure you are not bigoted against Muslim, ake - but when you talked about "the leaders of Islam" as "determined to wipe it out (Western culture) through increasing terrorist activity" you were using the language that bigots use, and saying something that is simply not true.

Those who are proponents of terrorism are not "the leaders of Islam", insofar as that there are such people - Islam is as fragmented and diverse as Christianity. They aren't even the leaders of fundamentalist Islam, and that is fragmented too, and means all kinds of things, some very nasty and others a lot less so.

It's a bit like equating anarchists with bomb-throwers, and ignoring the reality that most people who'd use that term to describe themselves are committed to non-violence.