Which is worse -- a defaced Quran or a "defaced" person?

Submitted by Maureen Cote (United States), May 24, 2005 at 10:50

Dhimmni Amazon.com quivers to make amends when an Islamist alleges a Quran has been "defaced" by a pen?

When are the Saudis and Egyptians going to make amends for 3,000 "defaced" Americans?

The Saudis could start by allowing a Christian church to be built in downtown Riyadh -- like the mosque that the tolerant, Christian-based culture allows to exist in downtown Washington DC.

The Egyptians could start by giving Christians in Cairo the permits that they need to repair their crumbling Christian churches -- churches that existed long before there were mosques. (Egyptian Muslims deliberately limit church building and Christian expansion by not granting permits to repair or build churches.)

Here's my tip for naive American travelers who gush about their gorgeous trip down the Nile: Next time you're in Cairo, don't go to the pyramids, go to what is called "the Garbage Quarter" -- the quarter where Muslims have traditionally forced Christians to live -- to find out about the status of Christianity in the Muslim world -- and what Muslims have in store for the rest of the world, if they can get their hands on it.

Dhimmi Amazon rushes to make contributions and payments to Muslim political organizations whose members continuously insult US citizens by using the tolerant US political system to allege hate crimes -- but who nevertheless don't leave this "terrible" infidel society to return to their economically, educationally and morally poverty-stricken countries of origin. They're moral hypocrites, masters of biting the hand that feeds them.

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