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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Undoubtedly some are as you describe, but it goes deeper than that.
These guys could read the Koran just fine. (Suras 2-9) |
I suppose there are pictures of George Bush and Tony Blair on various mid-east boards, but are they, even as elected officials, representative of the feelings of all or even the majority of Americans and Brits?
Again today, a British teacher in Khartoum called in to Five Live (a BBC radio staion) and said that there were a few hundred crackpots in a city of a couple of million people who were demonstrating and calling for severe punishment to be given the teacher. Virtually every Muslim he worked with at his school thought that while the teacher who caused the offence wasn't very bright, they (the local Muslims) have been pretty embarrassed by this situation, just as most (but not all) Americans are embarassed by Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, for instance.