"Our attempts to protect religion from pollution by politics have always bred this sort of avoidance of the obvious."
That's more or less what I was saying to Hamid the trim carpenter's assertion that this cannot be a Holy War because Islam would only allow such if we were a nation of infidels, and so on and so forth. I did not offer my opinion as to the number of infidels in this country but mostly tried to make the point that no matter what position the greater body of Islamic believers held, if a group of extremists, who also consider themselves Muslims, say this is a Holy War, then in a very real sense it is a Holy War. I for one take very seriously the words of any group or any groups even fainly related to a group who would fly airplanes into one hundred story American buildings.
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That's more or less what I was saying to Hamid the trim carpenter's assertion that this cannot be a Holy War because Islam would only allow such if we were a nation of infidels, and so on and so forth. I did not offer my opinion as to the number of infidels in this country but mostly tried to make the point that no matter what position the greater body of Islamic believers held, if a group of extremists, who also consider themselves Muslims, say this is a Holy War, then in a very real sense it is a Holy War. I for one take very seriously the words of any group or any groups even fainly related to a group who would fly airplanes into one hundred story American buildings.
- jimlouis 9-22-2001 5:33 pm