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    January 09, 2008

    The Hard Truth for Islam: No Other Religion Produces Such Numbers of Mass Murderers

    People frequently try to excuse Islam by saying that those who commit murder in its name are radicals who are corrupting the true teachings of that religion. Islam bears no responsibility for the actions of such radicals, claim the apologists.

    But what is not even remotely debatable, is that Islam is the only religion that produces such numbers of mass murderers who kill in the name of their religion. It is time for the apologists for Islam to be held to account for this.

    I was recently having a discussion on the comments section of this site with a poster who argued that with regard to the subject of abortion, Christianity was comparable to Islam. I responded:

    Per the site religioustolerance.org, the total number of murders or attempted murders committed with regard to abortion clinics, from 1989 to 2004, was 24. Compare this to 4,989 killed an injured by radical Islamists in just the past two months.

    Compare it to the 142,174 (56,000+ killed, 85,000+ injured) killed or murdered by radical Islamists since 9/10/01. (Link to source - and supporting spreadsheet).

    Citing numbers from the same link (http://www.thereligionofpeace.com), Say Anything posts:

    More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. (source)

    More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source)

    Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. (source)

    19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years. (source)

    The notion that Islam is not unique among religions in the number of such extremists it produces is comforting, but inaccurate. Only Islam produces mass murderers in such numbers. This is a hard truth for which apologists for that religion must be held to account.



    January 04, 2008

    Unearned Support from MSM Has Hollowed Out the Democrat Party - and Could Destroy its Chances in ‘08

    The biased, unearned support of MSM for the Democrat party, has permitted candidates to gain prominence, without having the aptitude it takes to do so on level playing field.  The result is an exceptionally weak array of Democrat candidates for the 2008 Presidential election.

    I would suggest that the results of the Iowa primary show, not so much an embracing of Obama - as a rejection of Hillary.  The voters of that state, taking their responsibility very seriously as the holders of the nation's first primary, carefully inspected Hillary, and have rejected her as insincere, divisive, and - despite her claims - inexperienced.

    This puts the Dems in very a precarious position. Edwards - foolish enough to call, in desperation, for a total pullout from Iraq, at a time when everyone can see that the Iraq war is moving towards a successful conclusion - is in danger of becoming irrelevant. And Obama is inexperienced, prone to gaffs, has a Muslim background, and goes to a church that some consider to be racially divisive.

    The unearned - and therefore essentially false - support by MSM, for Democrat candidates - has undermined the very party it sought to support - and in that way has become a damaging liability for that party.



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