Katz & Bucco:

Be very careful here. Do you realize what you're sounding like?

You're saying that it doesn't matter WHAT a Muslim says, that he or she is dedicated to violence. Their words do no matter - nor do their individual actions - yuou just KNOW that they're a threat to this country. After all, it's in the Koran, if I read your justification properly.

Well, read the Bible for crying out loud. It's FULL of wars, hatred, misogyny and genocide.

Based on your attitudes towards Muslims - as in you just *know* what they're thinking, why should I believe anything from a Christian? After all, from the Crusades to Northern Ireland, there's a history of mass murder. Heck, the Christian brigades in Uganda are using torture and targetting civilians to get THEIR way.. Oh - but they're not REAL Christians, right? They're interpreting the Bible in THEIR way to justify THEIR actions, yes?

...and, again, quoting Mahmoud ImANutJob makes my point even stronger - he's NOT an AMERICAN MUSLIM - and that's the difference I've been trying to point out.

Note that we didn't have any problems with Muslims before 9/11. Even when the WTC was bombed the first time, people largely looked at the perps as a radical offshoot. The 9/11 killers WERE moles here, that much is true, but a posthumous background check shows where they came from and where they studied. They were foreigners who came here on a mission. Most Muslims in this country are not on that mission.

Do you know who Andrew Kehoe is? He is the person who perpetrated the worst suicide bombing in U.S. history. On May 18, 1927 he killed his wife and set his farm buildings on fire. As firefighters responded to that blaze, he detonated dynamite and hundreds of pounds of pyrotol that he'd planted inside the Bath (Michigan) Consolidated School over the course of months. When the rescuers started showing up at the school, Kehoe drove up and detonated a bomb in his vehicle. In the aftermath, rescuers discovered 500 pounds of dynamite and pyrotol in the basement of the school's south wing that did NOT detonate.

The death toll was 45 (not including Kehoe) of which 38 were elementary school students.

He was Catholic.

Do you believe Catholics should be judged by his example? Do you believe that all Irish are secret members of the IRA terrorist organization? Do you believe that all Catholic priests are secret rapists? Of course not.

You're so willing to let members of other religions 'off the hook' for the actions of their madmen. Violence abounds in the Bible and, yet, that's ok. But if the person is Muslim, there's no such quarter given.

Go up to Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim congressman, and tell HIM that he's an advocate of violence - and HAS to be, because he's a Muslim.