ARE WE THE TALIBAN?

The answer of course is NO we are not. We don't plan terrorist attacks every time we don't agree with someone. The Taliban do. Their latest bombing in Pakistan took the lives of 53 and wounded another 100. The Taliban fear freedom and the ideas it spawns, so they sow fear. Do we?

We say we don't but do we?

In response to the bombing in Pakistan by Taliban extremists against Shiite minorities, The United States Embassy in Islamabad said, in part, in a statement “....attacks on minority communities are an attack on the foundation of democracy itself.”

If only we could live up to our own ideals.

A recent poll reveals that over all, 50 percent of those surveyed oppose building a planned Muslim community center two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, even though a majority believe that the developers have the right to do so. Thirty-five percent favor it.

Do we believe in the bedrock of our founding principles, freedom of religion and speech or don't we? Our founding fathers did because they knew that attacks on minority communities are an attack on the foundation of democracy itself.” It is the reason they came here.


We always need to be vigilant in our defense of that foundation.