Gateway Pundit reports that one of the Muhammed cartoons that was faked by the Danish Imams has been identified. Dennis Nixon at Neander News reports that AP photographer Bob Edme posted this photo on August 15, 2005 in an MSNBC story about the Frenc…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_
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I guess they forgot they have already helped bash Judaism.

http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/bu/syria/media_1_04.htm

Second, you refer to President Bush’s approach to the problem by bringing individual liberty and self-determination to the region as a means of promoting peace. I suggest that we should all hope, and pray, that it works, however long it may take. The only alternative will be cataclysmic, a true war between Islam and Western civilization.

Finally, You have twice used the word “forebearance.” As you applied the term to your own efforts here, you are correct. However, to describe the actions of the media in reporting all this as “forebearance” is gratutious nonsense, a compliment of which they are are totally unworthy. One need only review the media’s reporting of events over the past 5 years to recognize just how craven and unprincipled they have become. There is nothing in the record to justify the use of “forebearance” when describing the NYT, CNN, CBS, Newsweek, or any of the rest.

Send them home, and those who won’t leave and choose to fight, that’s the choice they’ll have to make, but we must make them choose, and now.

“If we can ever penetrate the propaganda, the lies, and the hate generated by Islam’s leaders against the West and prove by example that our beliefs are as powerful as theirs, the tide will begin to turn” is a feelgood hope, and may occur in another thousand years…if we live that long.

I think that many blogs and commentators have too simplistic approach to this conflict. Islamists are bad! If you stop for a moment and look at the world from their point of view, one might see more in common with the Moslems than one thinks. Europe’s aggressive secularism, lax drug laws, legal prostitution and the rest of their permissive morality must make a horrific place to try and raise Moslem children. We get all bent out of shape here in the US because of permissiveness in our public schools, but it’s probably much worse there. I know I send my kids to Catholic school to keep them away from the amoral public schools in our area.

We recently visited Vancouver and found drug addicts on every street corner. Coming back from an evening stroll through downtown we passed all manner of addicts, including one hiding in a dark doorway with his thighs slashed and bleeding. It looked self-inflicted. At the time, they still had their drug addict tent city in downtown. You had to go past it to get to Chinatown. Words fail me.

I’m not excusing the bombers and the loonies. I’m suggesting that Americans may have more values in common with the common Moslem than they do the Europeans. I’m not that eager to stand up and defend people who mock religion and support drug use and prostitution.

Thanks for the info. And you are correct up to a point. I think you would agree that the gentleman is a voice crying out in the wilderness and until there are many more like him, there will be little or no pressure on the radicals to stop the killing.