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Old 12-12-2009, 15:02   #2
Warrior-Mentor
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Give yourself a crash course...

Pick this up at your closest book store or library...just read the last 6 pages from 239-244.

Wafa discusses Colin Powell's appearance on Meet the Press in support of Obama.

"For me that interview was a turning point. I was shocked by
a remark made by Mr Powell that had nothing to do with the
subject at hand. Mr. Powell expressed his displeasure at the
McCain campaign's accusations that Obama was a Muslim,
and retorted, "And what if he were? What would be wrong
with that?"


"At that moment, I felt as if the room were spinning
around and I held on to my chair, afraid I might fall. This
remark poured salt on my wounds and posed a question: If Colin
Powell doesn't know what it means for the American Presidential
candidate to be Muslim, then who does?


The man who had once held the post of American Secretary of State
couldn't see what was wrong with America's choosing a Muslim President,

even though it is the country that suffered the most from
Muslim terrorism and paid the highest price because of it.

"Until that moment, I had considered Mr. Powell one of the
giants of American Politics. To me he was as majestic as the
American eagle. But in that moment, I saw the eagle topple from
its lofty peak and tumble down in front of me like a little bird.
And with it tumbled many of my convictions.

"I know that Mr Powell, ....refuses to judge people on the basis
of their religious affiliation, and that is right. But he does not
have the right to be ignorant or to disregard the FACT that Islam
is not just a religion: It is a political doctrine that imposes itself
by force
, and we have to subject to microscopic scrutiny any Muslim
in America who ascends to the heights of this sensitive and
supremely important post.

From "A god Who Hates" by Wafa Sultan pages 239-241.
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