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Putting the fun about midgets aside for a moment: I personally have never anybody on my doorstep with an AK-47. I think that islam is a way and a language to bind the forcess oposed to the US or better said the Pax Americana which is forced upon the (Arabic) world by the US and their allies.
For the man in the street in Bagdah, Cairo, Kabul or any other Arab country, the americans are the bad guys. See for yourself on the newnetwork Al-Jazeera, if you dont believe me.
This attitude is a result of the way America has conducted their forreign affairs in the region: supporing dictatorships (Iran, Irak), supproting a royal family without real power (Saudi Arabia), not doing anything in Libanon at the time (in which time by the way you could very well find a christian with an AK-47 at your doorstep) or of course Israel.
The onterforce we are all aware of since 9-11 the much more are liberation movement that a religious movement. The destinction is very relevant here.
Liberal moslims were and are very outspoken about the non-use of force or war. I therefore do not agree with you that the others were silent: they were not, even not is the islamitic countries. You can not jugde an entire faith on the behaviour of some lunatics woh happen to use the same ideology, but for other reasons.
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