In answer to Mr. Dong Chee

Submitted by Seamus MacNemi (United States), Jun 6, 2007 at 21:36

Dear Mr. Chee, If you really read my text you will see that nowhere did I equate self defence with fascism. My words compared the possible distortion of Mohammed's teaching to the distortion of the words of Jesus by those who sought to use him as an excuse for their wars of conquest. I see in Islam the same things I saw in Christianity in the last thousand years. I see a religious idea being used as an excuse to harm people and for no good reason except for the greed, ambition and lust for power of some of its adherents. This sort of thing has to stop across the whole front of human endeavour.

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