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>>Under these conditions a democratic election will lead to a culture where it is forbidden to believe something else.
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>>The real battle between the free (the west) and the oppressed (the muslims) should be a battle targeted against the fundamental islamic clerics. This should ideally be a battle of words, but I'm afraid that words won't be very effective. The fundamental clerics are really sick in their mind, therefore could use a lot of therapy, should be imprisoned and oppressed, if not killed.
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>Hi Peter,
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>Christianity, and especially the in U.S., has a high number of clerics who are sick in their mind too. You've seen many of them named here in one thread or another.
>And even the more sane and docile ones wouldn't, I truly believe, pass up the opportunity to wipe out a good sized part of their competitors. It's the most important part of their job, to spread/grow "the Word", after all. Increasing the overall percentage of Christians is the name of the game.

Hi Jim,

First, I want to correct what I wrote. The first sentence in the last paragraph should have been: 'The real battle should be targeted against the fundamental islamic clerics.'

Having said that, I think we do have the guts to criticize the christian clerics, because they are within our own culture. It's like criticizing a familymember, harsh but done anyway. What we need is the guts to criticize the islamic clerics and eventually cope with them in a harsher way.