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Reader comment on item: The Snipers: Crazy or Jihadis?
in response to reader comment: Muslims as patriotic citizens?

Submitted by Jack (United States), Oct 30, 2002 at 10:08

I was struck by Nadir's comments. Particularly the one about teaching Americans the 'truth' about this conflict. It amazes one to watch as a person who calmly espouses several tenets of the terrorists' beliefs declares himself 'neutral'!

This is the enemy we fight. And ideology so incredibly self assured that it feels its opinions are the simple, natural truth. So simple in fact, that to hold them is to be considered as not having any opinion at all.

In the Islamists' eyes, we are the tyrants, with our free speech and our civil rights. We are the despots with our liberated women and our religious tolerance.

We tempt Islam with our manifest evil.

What sane person would not want to indiscriminately kill us?

See how easy it is? Our media does.....

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