Insightful Carol. Very insightful. It was kind of what i was aiming at
but with a better twist to get the point across. Though i was choosing to
avoid calling this american. Maybe we should rather say unconstitutional.
Becuase America has been guilty before and maybe even now of being
unconstitutional.

Godbless,
Anwar



Carol wrote:
>
> > Last Sunday, at Yankee Stadium, Muslims and Jews sat next to each other.
> > A Hindu, a Sikh, a Buddhist, a rabbi, an African American woman minister
> > and a Greek Orthodox Catholic priest stood side-by-side in a crowded
> > ballpark, holding hands, with  "Adidas" and "Bud-Lite" signs flashing
> > overhead!  In other places in the world they are killing each other's
> > children.
>
> Liza, do you honestly believe that people of different religious faiths
> praying together has never happened anywhere but in America?  The only
> quintessentially American thing in that scene is the Adidas and Bud Lite
> signs flashing overhead.
>
> It isn't your love of country that I find distasteful.  It's the way you
> seem to be leaping from that to saying that honorable individuals cannot
> exist outside of an honorable system of government and, by extension, that
> the American people are better than any other people on Earth.  For someone
> who loves the idea of individual freedom so much, you certainly don't seem
> to give individuals much credit for having those minds and hearts whose free
> use and expression are the aims of those very values you claim to hold so
> dear.  That strikes me as.. well.. un-American.
>
> Carol
>