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If you honestly believe Islam is "enlightened", I invite you to build a Christian Cathedral in Saudi Arabia. (BTW - I'm a secular humanist. I have no need to defend Christianity or Judaism. The Islamists would cheerfully lop my head off because I'm not one of the "children of the book" and hence am denied any choice except conversion, slavery, or death. No dhimitude for the likes of me. Part of the reason I have a real grudge with Islam or anyone else who wants to say "my religion is the only true religion, the rest of you are going to hell. I got a "B" in the mandatory Old Testament class when I was working on my BS. The instructor had a difficult time reconciling my refusal to accept "articles of faith" as gospel and my fairly extensive knowlege of the actual history and the bloody politics that went into deciding what would become the dogma of the Catholic Church [everybody else calling themselves "Christian" is a schismatic Catholic - fact - by definition - not opinion].)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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