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Well, the article was written in 2002, but I guess it really wouldn't matter when it was written. It's timeless, as is the Koran, which I guess was the point.

I guess what frightens me is that when I listen to these moderate westernized voices of Islamic reason you so often see on television, I know that they're not really Muslims. Or, rather, their beliefs are not reflective of what is so often preached and believed throughout the world.

To get an idea of how dangerous as a group they really are, go into a small town in the rural south, find a member of a Pentecostal church and try to convince him that Noah did not, in fact, load a mated pair of every living species of animal on earth into his ark. Suggest to him that Jonah did not live for forty days in the belly of a great fish.

As moronic as fundamentalist Christians can be, they're generally more flexible and open to new information than their Islamic counterparts. At least the majority of them wouldn't prevent children from being vaccinated against disease, for example, and most of them haven't yet killed over their beliefs.

The Koran teaches that we infidels are to be allowed only conversion, slavery or death. It teaches this to people, some of whom are deeply offended by the photographic image of a pig.



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