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Sorry, I couldn't get past About.com, went to Suite101's home page to see the contributors, left unimpressed and really went no further.
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Your loss.
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From my link:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs.../06/brooks.htm
Before 1983 there were few suicide bombings. The Koran forbids the taking of one's own life, and this prohibition was still generally observed. But when the United States stationed Marines in Beirut, the leaders of the Islamic resistance movement Hizbollah[I] began to discuss turning to this ultimate terrorist weapon. Religious authorities in Iran gave it their blessing, and a wave of suicide bombings began, starting with the attacks that killed about sixty U.S. embassy workers in April of 1983 and about 240 people in the Marine compound at the airport in October. The bombings proved so successful at driving the United States and, later, Israel out of Lebanon that most lingering religious concerns were set aside.
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Politics outweighed religion and "won" the argument for those people. That doesn't mean that Islam no longer prohibits it.
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Most people are aware that there are tribes, where these "rubes" still practice in child marriages, are uneducated, live in abject poverty and this is what makes them receptive to the promises of the Taliban. It's their impoverished existence, with little or no opportunity for improvement which leaves them vulnerable.
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Nice, but ignores the point. Generalizing extremists as ignorant and acting like they need to be taught by "us" how to be better is misguided at best.
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That's odd, most attended religious or private schools where their children would receive the education desired, not the other way around.
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No, they don't. Lawsuit after lawsuit has occurred in the public sphere. And quite frankly, considering the Muslim population in Dearborn, and the fact that it was solving a safety/hygiene issue, it appears that the Muslims Students Association's request for footbaths was a reasonable one. And the school agreed with no legal challenges.
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No threatening legal action is nothing new, but capitulating to CAIR by settling to their demands is. It appears to be the post 9/11 gift that keeps on giving...
I'm going back to Delphi, I like the format better. 
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In Lewiston, CAIR lost its case. (One it had the right to bring regardless). The only case involving driver's licenses in the US that I could find involved a woman suing Florida for the right to wear a niqab (not a burka) in her photo. She also lost.
So where precisely are we capitulating to CAIR's demands like an over eager puppy? Seriously, where are you getting this bull?
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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