Yes, but while we still have guys with funny hats here, so to speak, there remains work to be done. While I do believe in the freedom of religion, however absurd and disruptive I may find religion to be, I also believe in the freedom of progress to reshape the minds of the future.
That lady really lays it out in terms that are compelling. I'm sure some Muslims are plotting to cut her head off as I type this. What she says it too truthful for them to not.
The Cap'n is playing a game. Stay down here long enuf one can get pretty good at emulating those idiots.
Please stop using the word Conservative to describe dictatorial religious governments. I am a conservative. I am not even in the same galaxy of thought as the folks that run theocratic muslim countries.
I'll agree with most of what you said. The only issue is that any soft tone of explanation is seen as weakness from Islam. It is more than likely that the video released did more harm than good. The radicals took it as weakness, and those who are level headed already knew the US government had nothing to do with the video.
The irony is that a secular Iran was on the horizon, and we decided to install the Shah. The question is, do we really want a strong, secular middle east? We help Al-Queda in Libya, which made no sense at all to me. We had to know that the power vacuum would create an opening for another conservative group, the Muslim Brotherhood. We claim to want democracy for the world, until the elections are counter to our national interest, then we topple that government and install a government that will set that nation back a generation or two. Iran has yet to recover from the Shah.
After the first sentence, please substitute the name "Obama" everywere your use the word "we" for accuracy.
To those conservatives, you are a liberal, a RINO, a stinking moderate who would seek compromise with the enemy. And lest we forget, there is a large contingent seeking to "return America to it's Christian roots".....a theocracy by any name...... You seem to be late to the Tea Party, Tsing.
RCG do you even have a slight clue as to what you say? Sometimes I think you really believe that Jedi Knights are going to ride to the rescue.