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Monte wrote:

> Jeff you are about one of the most disingenous individuals I think I
> have read.

That's not what bothers you about me.  It's that I'm needed to be your
conscience when you won't listen to your own.  I'm hoping that you'll
come around, and I honestly think that you will.

> If Muslims do not speak up against the terrorist acts then
> they are indeed part of the problem.

You are not listening to the ones who do speak up, and in many parts of
the world one doesn't survive long if one challenges prevailing policy.

> If they are American citizens
> and only speak up against the terrorist acts themselves and are not
> equally outraged about the fact that their new homeland(which they
> chose to come to and swear an oath of allegiance to) then they are
> just as traitorous and despicable as the terrorists themselves.

Guilt by association.  Just like you and your McCarthy peers.

> I honestly believe that any Muslim who would stand up and say he was
> proud to be an American, would be so swamped with offers to come to
> dinner that in a matter of weeks they would be unable to fit through
> doors.

Oh really?  Tell me what Muslims you've invited over.  And tell me again
why innocent American Muslim citizens living in North Dakota need to
prove to you that they weren't complicit in the DC and NYC attacks?  You
can't.

> Look, a lot of Americans who now distrust Muslims

...are either ignorant or malicious Americans who fortunately don't
represent what most Americans are like.

> also are
> aware that there cultures are more reticent at time and in certain
> circumstances,

Another wild generalization.  Are there any minorities you can think of
who aren't "reticent at time and in certain circumstances"?  But you can
single out Muslims with a straight face?

> but these are extraordinary times and it is up to the
> Muslim to make a slight adjustment.

No it's not.  Muslims didn't suddenly obtain a "reduced citizen" status,
although many haters seem to have suddenly forgotten what America stands
or.  If you're suddenly a hater, then deal with it yourself.  It's not up
to anybody else to cater to your irrationality.

> Afterall this is America not his
> native land, which if it were so goddam wonderful he would still be
> there.

Spoken in the best tradition of the KKK, or perhaps Aryan Nation.  Talk
to The Morrigan, maybe she'll wish that you go home and stop defiling her
native land.

> I want some small assurance that my neighbor is another American( be
> he any color creed or have four legs) and not some crazed son of a
> bitch Muslim fanatic.

As my sister would say, "How does it feel to want?"  Hey I want a million
bucks but that doesn't make it so and doesn't mean I'm entitled to it.

More to the point is that your peaceful innocent neighbors -- citizen or
resident alien --  deserve not to live next to a raging Nazi.  Think about
that.

- Jeff


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