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1.  What part of the daily ritual of Muslims is violent?

2.  There are plenty of clerics who say over and over that terrorism is not the path to salvation.

3.  This is EXACTLY like the Klan problem.  The South had ministers who preached that segregation of the races was biblical.  That didn't mean that all of Christianity was to blame for them.[/quote]

1 - I never said that any part of the daily ritual of a Muslim is violent. I have plenty of Muslim friends that are anything but violent. I said that the [b]philosophy of nonviolence[/b] should be more integrated in the daily practices and rituals of Muslims.  Violence is a part of historic and modern Islam.  It's not a pacifist faith as we all know.  Imagine if a young man considering Jihad was reminded that his hajj will be rejected by Allah if he pursues political jihad. Maybe that is enough of a deterrent for some people -- knowing that other acts of religiosity are negated if they are pursuing violent jihad.

2. And there are plenty of clerics that say otherwise.  Go on Youtube for a bit.

3.  The Klan did not become a nationwide network of killers ready to strike innocents at malls, airports, and coffee shops.  Their ideology didn't resonate through the rest of America. That is not an adequate comparison.  In Islam, the philosophy of political jihad has swept Somalia, Sudan, now Northern Iraq, Syria -- we can't just dismiss these people as crazies. It's not intellectually honest to do so.  [/quote]

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