Reply #89: Through my work I have contact with many Muslims from all over the

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world. I also regularly watch two Muslim TV shows shown here in Canada, Tarek Fatah's Muslim Chronicles is a must see for me. I also regularly visit The MCC web-site for progressive Muslim views on current events. In the last year I have read Karen Armstrong's "Islam" and Ziauddin Sardar's "Desperately Seeking Paradise".

My impression of you is partly formed by what can only be described as a wilful desire to misread post 1o. The sentence he writes refers to the Islamists at the school mentioned in the article. You read it as if he wrote the following:

"Muslims are a threat...maybe not as bad as the repugs suggest....for now."


He did not write that he wrote "these people (ie Islamists)are a threat...maybe not as bad as the repugs suggest....for now."


My impression is also formed by your instance on qualifying every comment made about Islamists that Christian fundementalist are no better. By so doing I can only draw the conclusion that you are convinced that everyone is a bigot, an Islamaphobe.