Submitted by DON VAN(United States), Aug 3, 2004 at 15:57
The report on 9/11 states that militant Islam is indeed the enemy we are confronted with. The Government and academia must find a method of defining a political movement and a religion. The current situation is not sustainable. Islam is both religion and political. So long as this nonsense is propagated and presented as immutable truth, we can look forward to the Orwellian situation of "Permawar" will never end. Islam,like Zion, exists ONLY for those who believe it to be so. As a non-Muslim and non Jewish, Islam,like zionism,is political. The failure to so identify the actual enemy may be the 21st century version of fiddling while Rome burns....
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