Re: [SG] Islamic Bombers

Every time I read about someone spouting off about the lack of value on
human life 
or the inherent evil that exists in Muslims or Arabs it points out one
thing to me:

Ignorance on the part of the person making the statement.  

Ignorance can be dispelled by learning, so it isn't a character flaw or
even an 
intellectual deficiency.  With that in mind I think it's particularly
important given the 
times we live in for everyone to learn just a little bit about Muslims
and people of 
Middle Eastern descent.  Without that knowledge gross errors are going
to be made, 
or, in the forum of this mailing list, grossly ignorant statements will
be made.

Failure to alleviate ignorance when given the opportunity and/or
adequate reason I 
qualify as 'willful ignorance', something colloquially referred to as
foolishness or 
stupidity.

Islam is NOT based on martyrs and no value for human life.  Those are
the evil 
manipulations of people who have hijacked the religion for their own
political aims.  
They are hypocrites.  

The terrorists and those who support them (cheering in the streets,
clapping while 
watching the news coverage of the towers falling, etc) are no more good
Muslims 
than members of the KKK are good Christians.  There are a lot of
parallels that can 
be drawn between the attitudes of Christian Crusaders and the attitudes
of those 
who perpetuate hatred and perpetrate violence is Islam's name.	Neither
of which 
have a place in a civilized world (a concept that arguably exists only
as a concept).

Closed minds and closed fists miss out on grasping some of the most
important 
things in this world.

--Flak
  Now I'm braced for some incoming vitriol, but that's okay, I really
want to learn 
how to use my mail filters anyway.

On 26 Jan 2002 at 16:42, Scott Clinton wrote:

+++SNIPPED STATEMENT BASED ON IGNORANCE+++

> 
> 
> Ah for God's sake!!
> 
> Lets NOT go here.  These sorts of ignorant, racist statement needs to
> be keep off list <period>
> 
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