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I can totally sympathize with those youth (and by youth I mean anyone under 21 in this case)... not in their desire to blow things up and kill people per se, rather their desire to belong to something and to oppose the establishment.
The fire that burns in the stomach of most youth to change things is an age old impulse. It wasn't long ago that I had that fire. The difference is in the type of change and the methods of creating change... not to mention a group of adults adding fuel to the fire and enabling my desire by telling me to blow things up.
While I don't hold the youths innocent, even in their furvour they should know where to draw the line, I do sympathize with the desire to make a difference, make a mark.
Leto, I have heard muslims denouncing these men. I also heard one of the big mucky muck imams on CBC at noon yesterday saying that he and about 50 other Imams came out last year and have been denouncing violence and terrorism for some time... he blames the media for not picking up their message. He claims that they have been out there making noise but no one is listening.
In anycase, he was there denouncing them yesterday.
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