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2005-12-12 Fifth Column

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Posted by ed 2005-12-12 14:04|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Straw man alert - Ackerman didn't say "American Muslims are not terrorists." He said he was surprised how few there were in comparison to the number in Europe. That's a valid observation, the rate of recruiting success does seem quite different. I'm not a big TNR reader, I don't know if Ackerman had anything interesting or valid to say about it.

Posted by Uloluth Angomong1920 2005-12-12 14:41|| 2005-12-12 14:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Itâs because we live in such a repressive regime.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-12-12 14:43|| 2005-12-12 14:43|| Front Page Top

#3 The 200 terrorists in the US, including at least 30 converts, seems pretty substantial. In addition, AFAICR there were over 1000 muslims deported due to associations with terrorists or groups, but not enough evidence for criminal prosecution.

Posted by ed 2005-12-12 14:56|| 2005-12-12 14:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Ackerman also fails to count American muslims who willingly and vociferously defend terrorism, who contribute to charities in the expectation that some of the funds will go to terrorism, etc.

Those are hard to count but they easily run to the tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands.

Posted by mhw 2005-12-12 16:59|| 2005-12-12 16:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I blame THIS ADMINISTRATION!!!

J. Kerry

P.S. I served in Vietnam.

Posted by John Kerry 2005-12-12 21:38|| 2005-12-12 21:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Active vs Passive - a canard. They are one and the same when the match is struck. mhw is right - they are in it all the way, whether it manifests itself as active (open jihadi) or passive (symp and support).

I have no use for Islam in any form. It serves no society but its own - which is clearly one of attack, subvert, dominate -- by any means available.

If they are quiescent in the US, it's because they recognize that we are an armed and dangerous populace to fuck with. Nothing more. They've chosen to take the subversion path, in the main, here, that's all.

A disease-bearing pestilence.

Posted by .com 2005-12-12 23:02|| 2005-12-12 23:02|| Front Page Top

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