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<font size=3>At 01:14 PM 9/17/01 +0800, Lawrence Horn wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>At 11:12 AM -0400 9/17/01, Mark A. Mandel
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Grant quotes the irreverend Mr. Foulwell -- go
ahead, tell me not to go<br>
overboard -- as saying:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>"The
abortionists have got to bear some burden<br>
for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40
million<br>
little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the
pagans,<br>
and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians
who<br>
are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU,
People<br>
for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize American,
I<br>
point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this
happen.'"<br>
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</blockquote>Certainly the perpetrators of the recent attacks must be
godless<br>
secular types, since obviously no religious believers could be<br>
capable of such infamous...oops, never mind.<br>
</font></blockquote>I understand your frustration but I would not
categorize the perpetrators as "religious believers". Even my
Muslim friends tell me that their religion does not endorse the killing
of the innocent nor suicide, and some tell me that these two acts are
"sinful" and "punishable by damnation." The
faction represented by these terrorists is so out of line that some have
described what is going on as a "battle for the soul of Islam."
On the one side the terrorist extremists and their quasi-religious views
and on the other the decent, peace-loving and responsible
"center" of Islam.<br>
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