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Originally Posted by Chocoholic

[We follow the rules, sans, a few recalcitrant acts by individual soldiers. “Because it is right” means nothing without education, leaders who teach tolerance and religious objectivity and prevent the manipulation of religion for political or other means or ends.

No, "because it is right" means everything. You can't control what the other guy does in any situation, you can only be responsible for you.

You’re kidding right? About.com – now there’s a scholarly source,

The credentials of the author, which you could have seen had you bothered.

Huda is a Muslim educator and writer with nearly two decades of experience researching and writing about Islam on the Internet. An American woman of Irish/English descent, she has been a Muslim for the past 20 years.
Experience:

Huda is an educator, freelance writer and editor. She is the author of The Everything Understanding Islam Book, originally published in 2003, with a 2nd Edition in 2009. She currently teaches elementary school in the Middle East.
Education:

Huda holds a M.Ed. degree, and is fluent in both French and Arabic.

LOL! The Statesman, what is that, a Texas newspaper? Suite101.com, if you bothered to check the contributors’ credentials I’m sure you would have been embarrassed. I’m almost embarrassed for you…

The Suite101 author's credentials:

Lamyaa Hashim has lectured internationally on Islamic and Middle Eastern Socio-Economics and Palestinian issues for over 25 years. She served as the world news editor for Islamic Horizons magazine in the early nineties, and her journalism and poems have appeared in various publications around the world and translated into several languages. She reported live from the Middle East as a correspondent for the radio program Sout El-Arab Wel Aruba (Voice of the Arabs and Arabia), and is an avid human rights supporter.

One would think the alleged ties to Hamas, which are unproven, would actually make an article by her stating that suicide bombings are unacceptable more relevant, not less.

And the New Statesman is a British political magazine, the author is the senior political editor and worked for Channel 4. For someone so quick to toss away sources, you provided none that contradict. If you want scholarly sources you're on your own and hopefully you speak Arabic.

Do you like 'The Atlantic' [URL]http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2002/06/brooks.htm

I do. You'll note that it discusses suicide bombing as a Palenstinian cultural issue, not an Islamic issue.

I’ll say it again, until you educate these young Muslim men, they’ll remain susceptible and receptive to a spurious version of Islamic nationalism taught and based upon nonsense promised to them by the Taliban et al. Therefore, our actions will mean bupkis, without first teaching them religious tolerance and educating them beyond the current level. If not; nothing changes and the cycle continues. In the very least, we should expect this from their leaders.

Do stop acting as if they're country rubes. Highly educated people get taken in by lies and scams all the time. And it's not like you're volunteering to teach "them" (which, you know, don't because in your case it would be counterproductive).

I understand, and I agree. However, that doesn’t mean you capitulate to demands for fear of reprisal and threats of discrimination. In this country, we have the principle of separation of church and state; therefore, we don’t place footbaths in our public universities, prayer rooms in our middle schools, allow drivers licenses’ with photos of burqa-covered women. Yet with each of these, CAIR threatened legal action.

Suffice to say, in most parts of the country people only complain when it isn't their religion that's being allowed by the public school/space/university. Threatening legal action is nothing new.

BTW thanks for that font tip.

Now stop touching the font and color sections of the edit box. Stop. It's bad.