Lawrence has no answer? Ursula Stange wrote:
Lawrence, you're seeing things that aren't there. What in Mike's note (below) prompted this response? You accuse us of knee-jerk reactions, but who's really jerking here?US Lawrence Helm wrote in response to Mike G.:Now you guys who don’t like or defend Saddam Hussein are back to defending him.-----Original Message-----From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike GearySent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:26 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat I agree with you, Lawrence. Copy that sentence and frame it! And, ofcourse, you recognize that people have the same right to believe in Islamismas in Christian Evangelism and in Islamic Fudamentalism as in Christian Fundamentalism. Belief is no crime. Only acts are crimes. Only those whocommit crimes are our enemy, not those who cheer on the criminals (I cheer on bank robbers), or wish they were themselves criminals, only the peoplewho commit crimes are criminals. It makes the world more complicated, Iagree. But it separates us from the barbarism of people like Saddam Husseinwho would kill not just those who tried to assassinate him, but all his family as well. Mike GearyMemphi
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