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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	The Peaceful Religion Hodgie and MM
	Date:	2/6/2011 9:34:16 AM

GF, I never saw anything in your comments that suggest you support stoning, etc. But your analogy with Jim Crow doesn't work for me. It is in fact Christian charity and a recognition that we are all created in the image and likeness of God that drove much of the desire to end racism. What is missing here is a wide swath of Muslims coming out in opposition to these acts. But the fact is that this very ideology is being promoted in Mosques and Madrassas all over the world, rather than by a regionally isolated remnant of the Civil War. As for the marriage of whites and blacks I can tell you from experience (at least where I grew up) that blacks were no more supportive of racially mixed marriages than were whites. That is why interracial marriages were so rare because the couple found themselves isolated and their children not being accepted by anyone. Thankfully that attitide has changed a lot in the last 50 years although it is still not absent on either side.

Good for the government to pass a law but as we have seen in Europe and will see more often in the U.S., devout Muslims accept no other law than that derived from their faith. It is an honor if they stone a woman to death, and a greater honor if they are punished for it by civil authorities. Christian social doctrine demands adherence to just civil laws and since our system of jurisprudence is based on Judeo-Christian values there are relatively few conflicts and certainly none that would demand that we kill a woman for being raped, quite the opposite actually.