[Rhodes22-list] Political - Cleaning up your own back yard.

[Bill Effros]

Hank,

The worldwide Muslim community has been doing more to control its 
extremists than the worldwide Christian community ever did to control 
its own extremists.

There are nutbars in every community.

You can't blame the community for the acts of the nutbars.

The largest Muslim nation in the world is Indonesia.  There are more 
Muslims in Indonesia than in the entire Middle East.

India is the second largest.  They have been with us in fighting Muslim 
extremists.

The third largest Muslim nation is Pakistan.  They have captured a large 
number of Muslim extremists and done with them whatever we asked.

Taken together, there are more Muslims in Indonesia, India and Pakistan 
than there are Christians in the United States and Western Europe.

They don't want us to support them. They just don't want us to attack 
them. 

19 guys attacked us, and those 19 guys won't be able to do it again any 
time soon.

The mess we have created in Iraq has nothing to do with Muslim 
extremists attacking us.

We can't even control a country with 25 million Muslims.  Let's not 
start thinking about taking on the other billion and a half.

Bill Effros

Hank wrote:
> I am curious about something and maybe some of you have an opinion or 
> know
> the answer.
>
> I believe I have read in various news reports that the majority of the
> Muslim community does not support or condone the terrorist actions of the
> Islamic extremists and feel they are being persecuted by the west over 
> this
> issue.  What I have not seen or heard is any significant movement by by
> Muslim community to stop or control these terrorists.  It seems 
> reasonable
> to me, that if they want us to support them, then they should be doing
> something in this regard.  I am talking about the world wide Muslim
> community, not just the middle easterners.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Hank
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