Re: Why Do They Want To Kill Us?

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From: Robert Knowles
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:19

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"Carol Lee Smith" <human@csd.uwm.edu> wrote in message
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> This Is a Religious War
> October 7, 2001
> By ANDREW SULLIVAN
>
> Perhaps the most admirable part of the response to the conflict that
> began on Sept. 11 has been a general reluctance to call it a
> religious war. Officials and commentators have rightly stressed that
> this is not a battle between the Muslim world and the West, that the
> murderers are not representative of Islam. [. . . ] The only problem
> with this otherwise laudable effort is that it doesn't hold up under
> inspection. The religious dimension of this conflict is central to
> its meaning.

Yep.

We're just letting our typical political correctness
whitewash this fact.  We still don't want to "offend"
anyone no matter what they do.  Especially if it involves
anyone's religion because we have been taught that
"religious tolerance" is a great virtue.  But we should
not let our tolerance blind us to the fact that everyone
doesn't think like we do.

It may not be a "religious" war for us, but you can bet it
is for them.

Muslims do not easily separate their religion from other
aspects of their lives as readily as Westerners.

Our whole concept of a secular government is completely
foreign to Muslims.

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