[Vision2020] True Muslims and True Americans

[Dick Sherwin]

When Muslims worldwide rise up against their own who are advocating death
and destruction toward all others, I will be impressed.  Until that time I
will continue to carefully watch my backside while in the close proximity to
the practioners of the religion of peace.

I wonder how many of the 21 arrested, so far, in Britian are Hindus,
Christians or any other religion, except Muslim?  Where is the cry of
outrage from the rest of the Muslim world?  Perhaps it will come soon but,
in the meantime, so-called peaceful Muslims are catering to the needs of
their more radical bretheren.

Only Muslims who seriously wish to live in peace with the rest of the world
and respect everyone else's right to worship as they please can put an end
to the murderous ways of their brothers.  What are they waiting for?
According to all you liberal thinkers, the bad Muslims are very much in the
minority so when will the majority speak out against them in unison?

I forget now, which of the mainstream Christian Churches supported the
Aryian Nations thought processes?  Which of these churches did not condem
them?  Which of these churches pretended to deplore their message while
hiding them out in their own flock?

And, since when is it a no brainer to respect the religious beliefs of those
who would see you dead in the name of their religion?  Why would anyone
respect the beliefs of those who plot to kill innocent men, women and
children to further their own sick religious agenda?  I mean, who besides
people like you, Nick?

Dick S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:06 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] True Muslims and True Americans


> Hail to the Vision!
>
> I'm disturbed by distorted views of Muslims and Americans that are coming
up the hill from Lewiston. It has the same effect as the Potlatch mill when
the wind is right, except that wind blows in all directions in cyberspace.
>
> I would like to follow up on Sunil's comments about his Christian family
growing up peacefully next door to a Muslim family in India.  Although they
grap the headlines, radical Hindus and Muslims are a small minority in
India.
>
> Out of 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, 350 million live in India,
Indonesia, and Malaysia.  These countries are good friends and allies with
the U.S.  Only a small number of them would side with the jihadists.  This
is true for many other Muslim countries.
>
> I may have mentioned a paper that I did for a conference in Spokane in
May.  It is entitled "From Mongols to Mughals: Religious Violence in India
from the 9th-18th Centuries."  Contrary to widespread misconceptions (which
I myself held), Islam was not spread by the sword in India and Indonesia.
In fact, those areas where Muslims tried to coerce conversion are now
exactly those areas that have the fewest Muslims.
> You can read the paper at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/mm.htm.
>
> On December 8, 1992, I was invited by graduate students in Gandhian
Studies at Panjab University to visit a Muslim village outside of
Chandigarh.  Their project was to teach Muslim children Hindi or English.
Four students were Hindu and the other two were Sikhs.  The first thing they
did upon arriving at the village was to pay their respects at the Hindu
Goddess temple (the two Sikhs also).  (The mosque appeared to be in ruins.)
The Hindu priests were busy preparing rice and curry for the entire village.
This is Gandhi's India where Indians of all faiths (six major ones) get
along just fine, even celebraring many festivals (some of them religious)
together.
>
> When I returned to Chandigarh that night, I walked into the faculty hostel
and was shocked to see radical Hindus tearing down the Barbri Mosque In
Adyodhya with pick axes and their bare hands.  The world saw this rather
than the peaceful Muslim town, which, as I was told, was the norm in
hundreds of thousands of other Indian villages.
>
> Blaming all of Islam for the jihadists is just about as bad as blaming all
Christians for the Aryan Nations.
>
> Respecting all religious beliefs?  It is a no brainer!!!
>
> Nick Gier
>
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