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Bigotry Toward Any Faith Community Cannot Have Any Place In Civilized Society Anywhere In The World.

In The 20th Century, The Muslim World Created A Vision Of Religious Nationalism. Turkey, For Example, Had To Be Ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, Other Minorities Didn't Have A Place In Such A Vision Of A Nation-state.

In Malaysia, Where Western Culture Was Extremely Influential, I'd Grown Up Listening To Elvis And The Beatles And Watching American Movies. People Wanted To Be Like Americans. In Contrast, When I Got Here, I Saw Prosperous Middle-class American College Students Wanting To Somehow Join The Third World.

We Tend To Forget In The West That The United States Has More Muslim Blood On Its Hands Than Al Qaeda Has On Its Hands Of Innocent Non-muslims.

God Says In The Quran That There Is Only One True Religion, God's Religion. It's The Same Theme That God Revealed To All Of The Prophets, Even Before Muhammad.