"This episode reveals the gulf between us and the Islamic world. Despite all our talk of universal values, tens of millions of Muslims, in countries not only hostile but friendly, believe that a sacrilege against their faith, like the burning of the Quran by a single American oddball, justifies the killing of Americans. What kind of compatibility can there be between us?
What do we have in common with people who believe that evangelism by other faiths in their societies merits the death penalty, as do conversions to Christianity, while promiscuity and adultery justify stonings, lashings and beheadings.
And what does it say about our ability to fight and win a “long war” in the Islamic world if our war effort can be crippled by a solitary pastor with 50 families in his church who decides to have a book burning?"
Friday, September 10, 2010
Quoting from an unnamed source
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Pat Buchanan
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moi said those things first -- about what the president should do if the Qu'ran burnings endanger the troops.
Dear Moi, I only quoted the parts that served my own POV, that the world of Islam is indeed an alien other. His other points about dracononian deeds in wartime...if we were capable of knowing that we were indeed at war..I left out on purpose. If we had the Lincoln, Wilson style, the GMZ mosque guy would be in prison.
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