Excellent, perceptive rticle.

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As is usually the case, a number of very good points were raised.  I just wish I had more time at the moment to write something more extensive, but…I don’t.  So I’ll say this:  Thanks, Hitch!

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from Hitchens’s article:  “‘Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,’ Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.”

Heh!

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Excellent point! I think that the same could be said about Muslim stoning. Whereas Muslims are debating whether are not stoning should be to the death or simply only used to humiliate those who have sinned; humanitarian morality, and thankfully U. S law, prohibits completely the religious ritual of stoning.

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On his show, Beck always claims that truth is something he continually strives to seek out.  If only he were to seek out the truth behind man-made religions.  If Beck is really serious about seeking out the truth,  he would invite someone like Sam Harris onto his hour-long show to discuss the truth behind religion.  I think that would be quite interesting.

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In case anyone is interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY-JKiGDJg0

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Great stuff from Hitch as usually. That dude can write!

I’m reading Hitch-22 right now and have a hard time putting it down to work. Had to start leaving it at home so I wouldn’t get fired!

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Please could someone direct me to a catalogue of calls to commit crimes, hypocrisies & contradictions, published in a reference guide on the Koran? Oh it’s called the Koran, thanks..

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In fairness, although there may not have been Jewish suicide bombers in the 1920s, there were Jewish bombers in the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s. Terrorism in Middle East was an invention of Jewish Sionists who considered any action justified as long as it helped them regain the ‘promised land’. Early in the 20th century, only 5% of the population of what subsequently became Israel (then called Palestine, as it had been called for thousands of years) were jews. To quote the founder of Israel, Ben Gurion, he remarked in the 1930s that jews cannot regain their ‘god promised’ land without “...brutal compulsion”.

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