HAIL TO A WELCOME PROPHET IN ISLAM
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Submitted by GRAHAM RAELBROOK (United States), May 1, 2004 at 02:57

EVEN IF DR. ZUHDI JASSER'S LONELY VOICE REMAINS AS NO MORE THAN THAT, I AS ONE WHO HATES TERRORISM FROM WHICHEVER SOURCE WANT TO COMMEND HIM FOR HIS BRAVERY FOR THIS SINGLE COURAGEOUS ACT EVEN MORE THAN FOR ALL HIS 11 YRS OF EXEMPLARY SERVICE IN THE US NAVY WHICH HE ACCOMPLISHED AMONG MANY.

I NOTICED THAT No. 1 IN HIS 'Quotes to live by' WAS

(1) E pluribis unum - "from many one," the American motto. I DO HOPE AND PRAY THAT HE WILL SEE THE CONVERSE OF THIS QUOTE 'FROM ONE, MANY' COME TRUE FOR HIM AS HE SEES MANY GOOD BRAVE MUSLIMS SEE IT AS THEIR RELIGIOUS DUTY TO JOIN HIM AND OTHERS LIKE HIM IN PROTESTING AGAINST THEIR FELLOW RELIGIONISTS WHO CARRY ALLAH'S NAME IN VAIN AND BRING DISGRACE UPON ISLAM AND THE KORAN AS THEY FLY IN THE FACE OF ITS PEACEFUL BASIC PRECEPTS BY TAKING TOO LITERALLY SOME OF ITS MORE AGGRESSIVE AND VIOLENT EXPRESSIONS.

JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY SIMILARLY HAVE SOME OF THESE SAME DESTRUCTIVE INVOCATIONS IN THEIR BIBLES AND EARLY PRACTICES BUT THE PASSAGE OF TIME HAS SERVED BOTH OF THESE RELIGIONS TO INTERPRET THEM AS EXTREMES FROM WHICH TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES. SADLY THERE IS AN EXTREMIST SECTION OF MUSLIMS WHOSE DEVOTION DWELLS TOO HEAVILY ON THEM GLORYING IN DESTRUCTION RATHER THAN CREATION AND ACTS AS A CANCER WHICH IF ALLOWED TO FLOURISH WILL BRING DOWN ISLAM AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION WITH IT.

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