When I ask ordinary Americans why they are fighting in Afghanistan, they tell me all the things they don’t like about Islam, and the need to kill them all, even the children. Given that nearly everyone in Afghanistan is a Muslim, are Americans seriously planning to kill everyone in the entire country to wipe out a competing religion? Do they imagine, with sufficient torture, a latter day crusade will convert all Afghans to Southern Baptist? This is all so bigoted and ignorant when the average American has not read even a single sentence of the Qur’an. Americans’ sole exposure to Islam is hate propaganda. Americans are behaving like the Spanish Inquisition, with their self-righteous cruelty and holy certainty.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)