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ITALIAN JOURNALIST SHOT AT BY MUSLIM
“A director of Italian public broadcaster RAI has urged the government to protect to one of its journalists after a suspected radical Muslim opened fire on his car in southern Italy.
Rega wrote a book on Islam’s uneasy relationship Christianity and has received several threats from alleged Muslim extremists over the past two years…”
http://focusuk.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/italian-journalist-shot-at-by-muslim/
Mr. Vice President -
The US may NOT be the enemy of Islam.
Islam, however, IS an enemy of the US -
By Its Own Choice. Please keep that in mind. Dr. Shalit
Urrah2222, you took the words from my mouth. Just because the USA maintains that the islamic world is not its enemy, does not mean that the islamic world is not at war with us normal people here in the West. And pretending otherwise is a dangerous transference of intent onto the enemy. Wanting them to be our friend does not make them our friend. Until islam has been vanquished there will be no means of cohabitation. islam is an enemy that will have to be perpetually kept in thrall to us if we want to sleep peacefully in our beds.
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