Neeum Zawan wrote:
>> I honestly don't remember even seeing a minaret in the USA. And as I
>     They're in your own state, for crying out loud!

I had noticed that.  I'll note for our foreign friends that California is a 
pretty big place, even in mountain scale. ;-)

>     OK - Joke aside, I have no idea how many there are in the US. A 
> Google image search for mosques in the US reveals a bunch.

Yeah, but I don't remember seeing a minaret. Maybe I just never went where 
they're common.

>>> they're pissing off the "moderate" majority,
>>
>> Have you evidence that the majority are moderate? I used to think that
> 
>     "Can you prove you didn't commit the crime?"

Not at all. See Prop 8.

It should be trivial to set up a phone poll to ask these questions. You 
might get false negatives, but I don't imagine you'll get a false positive.

> When I used the word, though, I was referring to violence.

Sure, and I see a whole bunch of pictures of people holding up signs, and I 
see riots and people burning down buildings, and etc.

I don't know what percentage of muslims would do that given the opportunity. 
I don't think you do either. That's why I said the assumption that it's a 
minority is a bad assumption, as would be the assumption that it's a majority.

I thought the idea that there would actually be enough votes to modify the 
CA constitution to treat gays as sub-human would never have passed either.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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