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Lessons of Fort Hood

Al1220 Wrote: Nov 19, 2009 4:41 PM

You say that anyone who takes a religious book literally is a "nut case." I won't argue with you; you can define "nut case" any way you like. But a person who reads the Bible and takes the words of Jesus literally will at least be a harmless nut case.

If you read all the words of Jesus recorded in the Bible you will not see Jesus ordering his followers to kill, maim, or enslave non-Christians. Quite the contrary; he orders his followers to do things like "love your enemies."

But obedience to the Koran means killing, mutilating, and even sexually enslaving "infidels."

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Lessons of Fort Hood

When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But it's not going to happen.

Hasan should have been weeded out of the military long ago. There was abundant evidence that his allegiance was not to the United States -- the country that had given his immigrant family safe haven and provided him the opportunity to become, at taxpayer expense, a physician, an officer and a gentleman. It was...

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