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Dien,

Thanks for the Black Jack Pershing link.

I already Knew this story - and it's fakeness. But this comment...

"But according to Raeed Tayeh of the American Muslim Association in North America, the notion that a Muslim would be denied entrance to heaven for touching a pig is "ridiculous."

And this..."A statement from the Anti-Defamation League characterizes the claim as an "offensive caricature of Muslim beliefs."

Right. And Here is the problem. The statement, like a cartoon, is offensive. But blowing people up in a cafe, chopping off heads of living people, crashing planes into buildings... that's Not offensive?

Point is, we are not talking about any old Muslim who goes about their life peaceably. We're talking about the nut jobs created from the brainwashing of the Wahhabi or Shia or Taliban style Islam. So a comment from, say, a Sunni Muslim as the quote may have come from (Raeed Tayeh of the American Muslim Association), doesn't apply to an extremest Wahhabi Muslim. And then the Islam practiced in Indonesia is different again.

Simple is never done if some do gooder can be offended by it.

Just like the Aussie soldiers not being allowed to shoot unless fired upon first. The obvious answer isn't always the one followed. We can't go hurting someone's feelings now.

Michael Ross