RE: [microsound] [OT] war

["Falcata-Galia and Tariff Records" <fgrecs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

C. Ramakrishnan;

>> He [G.W. Bush] isn't a zealot in the way clerics are in Islam.

>Your statement reads as if you are suggesting all Muslim clerics are
>zealots. I assume you don't mean to imply such an absurdity.

My bad.  Clarification is in order.  Two ex-girlfriends and a Persian
who married into my family will disprove this sentiment.

>Overlooking that... can one find Muslim clerics who hold more extreme
>positions than Bush? Yes. But one can also find Christian priests who
>hold extreme, frightening positions too. So what?

Yes, and they're considered whacko.  They are marginalized.  Because
people on the street don't have the luxury of being in the Arabian
Peninsula, North Africa, or the rest of the Islamic world to see what is
happening, they rely on images of "mad mullahs" inciting their followers
to kill Americans and Jews.  Perhaps if this crap wasn't shown on TV, it
would make for slightly better relations between the two cultures.

>To hold some fringe madmen, who are leaders of congregations of a
>couple hundred people, to the same standard of zealotry as the leader
>of a nation of 250 million with the most powerful military in the
>world at his command is ridiculous. We should expect much more
>temperance from the leader of the US.

You would figure.  In a respect I agree.  I still don't see this sort of
zealotry that is being implied.

>> Even remotely comparing Bush to those whack-jobs is intellectual
>> dishonesty.

>Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.

Okay, pot calls kettle black.  So what?  It doesn't change much of
anything.

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