AKAFIR,

They're blowing themselves up because of huge tactical, logistical, industrial, and strategic advantage of a the post-industrial countries. They have no other weapon that is as effective. If the roles were reversed and their soldiers walked our streets, we would resort to the same.

We don't want them out of the 7 th century. That would lesson our advantage over the distribution of natural and human resources.

They're blowing themselves up for political reasons and not religious reasons.

Lastly, the ordinary person anywhere in the world, loves their community and family. They have nothing to do with what happens with governments or rebellions.

FriendEnemy
Playing the victim? How come that did not stop china, India, Brazil, south Korea? When someone wants to live in the 7th century, what can anyone do? It is easier to blow oneself up and keep imaging that you are going to get your 72 hoors instead of actually making changes in this life. OIC countries are at the bottom of the pile by any measurement? Why? How many new books come out of the OIC nations? How many suicide bombers?

Where are the moderate Christians? Christian countries have the largest arsenals of offensive weapons that are sold and used around the world? Go to Washington, London, Moscow, and Paris.

Where are these weapons being used?

Who controls the distribution of human and natural resources? Who protects that control?

To be tolerant, walk a mile in someone else's shoes.

Dear Jillian Johnson,
Government Affairs Intern at CAIR,
One who has an ardent passion for Human Rights,
Major Student at DePaul(Catholic Vincentian) University which has Very Interesting Logo(Cross and Crescent)

They ask:*Why are they(Bedouin Order Followers) not speaking up?*
You say:*I wish just answer 'I'm right here'*
It's NOT the reply to their question.

Please,I appeal you to speak up about Cult of Violence.
Please,speak up Fascism and Subjugation in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Please,speak up Oppression and Terror in Pakistan,Islam Rep.Iran,Saudia etc.

Dear Irish Girl,
You are a Catholic and strongly believe in Trinity and Son of God.The Cult of Conquest/Holy War says *Trinity is Idolatry* Please,speak up.
Problem is NOT Brooklyn Bridge or Manhattan Brigde and Dialogue.Mentality of Two Women equal One Man menaces Human Rights and Civilization.If you have Ardent Passion for Human Rights,please,speak up,dont write Empty Words.
Infidelkillers and Statuebreakers try to abolish Contemporary Values,please speak up.
What will happen....,what will happen if you built Queensboro Bridge between US Citizens and Desert Cult Followers ?
Brigde to Followers of The Great Alexander was Muslim......
Brigde is not Solution.
They shall come to Twentyfirst Century,You will not go back to Seventh Century.

Have a great life.

Jillian,

You just don't get it. You've been hanging around the interfaith crowd too long. So let's try again. You wrote:
"The funny thing is, I keep hearing them ask these questions to their Muslim guests. I wish someone would just answer, "I'm right here."

That's the problem - you don't get the question. Why are the moderates "here"? We are all intelligent, reasonable, & tolerant people. We know there are Muslims who don't kill and terrorize. But too many do kill.

Again, the questions for moderate muslims like Eboo Patel is:
Why are you "here"? Why are you explaining tolerance to tolerant people? What an effing waste of time. This is the problem with the self-righteous interfaith crowd. They just talk. They just talk to each other until they just love themselves. Who cares?

The problem, my well intentioned(?) & ignorant friends, is that too many muslims are killing. Killing each other; killing women & children; killing kafirs; killing, killing, killing.

So, go "there". Go away. Shoo. Don't waste the time of reasonable, intelligent, and tolerant people by trying to teach them to be reasonable, intelligent, and tolerant. They already get it. Don't be so self-righteous and patronizing.

So, where should "moderate muslims" go?
Go to the mosques in America? That's where kafirs are insulted by the koran and intolerance of the "other" is born.
Go to the mosques in America, London, & Saudi Arabia. That's where the money for terrorism is collected.
Go to the mosques in Pakistan. But be careful which ones. That's where Sufi, Ahmedi, & Shiite mosques are blown up regularly.
Go to Mecca on Bakri Eid. That's where millions of lambs are ritually beheaded as a celebration in one day. What exactly is the message there.
Go to Iran. That's where adulterous women get stoned to death.
Go to Iraq. That's where Churches are blown up.
Go back to Pakistan. That's where the rational, educated Muslims in the ISI systematically set up and train islamic terrorists.
The list is long and goes on.

There are so many Islamic places that need you, Eboo and moderates. They need your message of tolerance. Curiously, you only go to places that don't need you. This makes me wonder if you are sincere. I hope Eboo you are not another confused Indian Muslim with a deep-seated conflict about the faith you find yourself born into and the violent and intolerant aspects of Islam. Please don't waste everyone's time resolving your internal conflicts by becoming an apologist for Islam and terrorism. You should really be helping nonmuslims (kafirs) fight intolerance by changing Islam from within.

Good Luck. I don't think Islam can be changed for the better, but maybe you do. Maybe Eboo Patel's self-righteous preaching will work on Muslims.

Jillian,

Why don't you get Eboo and the other moderate muslims you know so well apparently to denounce the hate in Islam for the non-muslims? Why don't you and they look at the plight of the non-muslims in the muslim countries and speak up, instead of whining about interfaith dialog in a Kafir country that really does not need it. How many muslims have the Kafirs here in USA killed because they are muslims? How many Kafirs have the muslims in USA killed while shouting Allah hu Akbar? How may Kafirs have the muslims killed in the muslim world in the last year just because they were non-muslims. Is the blood of the 58 christians killed in the church in Baghdad not enough last week? Todays news tell us that { The Islamic State of Iraq, which has claimed responsibility for Sunday's assault on a Catholic church during Mass in downtown Baghdad, said its deadline for Egypt's Copts to release the women had expired and its fighters would attack Christians wherever they can be reached.

"We will open upon them the doors of destruction and rivers of blood," the insurgent group said in a statement posted late Tuesday on militant websites.

The Islamic State of Iraq is an umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq and other allied Sunni insurgent factions.}

Does it bother you in the least that under the Islamic Sharia law a buddhist maid from Ceylon can be killed by a muslim man and he can pay the blood money of $890 to her family and walk free. If he had killed a muslim woman or man, he would have been killed by the state. Why is a Kafir woman's blood money only 3.3% that of a muslim man? Does it touch your conscience at all, or are you so enamoured of the interfaith faith swindle of Eboo that you cannot see the evil right in front of your nose?