Greetings Doug! -=> Quoting Douglas Friedman to Frank Reichert <=- DF> My feeling is that if we wait until they invade us, we've waited too DF> long. Better to fight on someone else's territory. Plus there's the DF> ideological issue. When the Germans were winning WWII, there was a lot DF> of support for adopting the Nazi cause, both here and in England. DF> Never enough to get anywhere near control, but there were many DF> accommodationists. As Islam gets more powerful abroad and gains DF> adherents here, through both immigration and conversion, we can expect DF> more pressure to adhere to their requirements, much as India felt DF> compelled to adopt a separate divorce law for Muslim women that DF> basically stripped them of all rights to decide whether to get a DF> divorce and to receive alimony. If the U.S. seems weak in the face of DF> this, many Americans will decide maybe we should try something DF> similar. How often do you hear praise for the Nation of Islam DF> (Farrakhan's outfit) for restoring order in crime-ridden areas. Such DF> PR helps them gain strength and then political legitimacy. I doubt DF> this would lead to a libertarian society. I guess Doug I have never looked at it this way. In fact, I do not feel particularly threated by Islam, at least any more of a threat than any other religous belief that I do not hold to. This is especially true when it involves a foreign policy against another nation of a predominently different religion than the one I hold to myself. Historically, Christians have usually been a minority. I look at the ancient history of how christianity spread and I am even amazed that it exists today in any form. It was brutally savaged by the Romans just for starters. The Jewish "homeland" from whence it originated was openly hostile to it. So, as a Christian, I feel this is normal. Islam is no more a threat to the Christian religion than is the world at large. I simply believe that the church exists today because it is of supernatural origin. That is my belief, and I know I am going beyond any libertarian ideology here that neither endorses or opposes matters of faith and religion. But here I feel it is necessary to define how I personally feel about this notion. Christianity receives no special breaks here. Islam is no special sinister force that is more important to oppose than anthing else out there! My religious belief however is really Christian. The [83 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=3206061&hilit=CONSPIRACY+MEDIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&3196448 Score: 80 Subject: Re: Question