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The wonderful thing about the WBC, I think, I just how effectively it acts as its own measure of self-preservation.
It's not a group that is growing, and gaining members, or, wasn't, the last time I read about them. Really, they're a group of 200 individuals or so, the majority of whom are just extended parts of the Phelps family, who live on a closed compound. And they'll probably just die out once Fred bites the dust. I take a lot of comfort in that, and it just allows me to giggle at everything they do.
As far as the Moslem question is concerned, I really can't help but think it's a matter of perception. If we keep pushing these ideas and this imagery of the Bedouin savage devil, of us vs. them, it's easy to see how we'll keep believing that misconception.
I have several friends who are Moslem, it really shocks me to learn that when I go over to their house, they aren't in a constant state of planning to blow up a bus or a building. I thought that was what they all did.
/sarcasm ended
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Words of Wisdom:
If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane.
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