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Perhaps Americans need some reminders of some of the crimes that Islam has committed against America .  It is in the name of Islam these attacks have been carried out and I hold Islam responsible because it is Islam that has raised these terrorists to hero status.
 
On the orders of Yassar Arafat the American embassy was attacked in March of 1973 and two diplomats were killed and others were held hostage.  Arafat demanded the freedom of fellow Muslim Sirhan Sirhan, in prison for killing Robert Kennedy.  
 
A few months later, in Athens , three Americans were killed and 55 injured as Islamic terrorists threw grenades and machine-gunned civilians waiting for a flight to New York .
 
In 1983, 17 Americans died when Islamists blew up a car in front of the embassy in Lebanon .  Four more Americans died when the American embassy in Kuwait was attacked that same year.
 
Returning to the American embassy in Lebanon in 1984, 24 more Americans died when yet another car bomb went off outside the embassy.
 
The year 1985 brought death to five Americans in Rome with 74 wounded in an Islamic attack at the airport.  Also in 1985, Americans got their first glimpse into the soul of the enemy when Islamic terrorists took over the cruise ship Achilles Lauro and shot a crippled American Jew in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, and then pushed him overboard.  
 
In May, 1987, the U.S.S. Stark was attacked by an Iraqi fighter plane and 37 American sailors died.
 
Libya blew up a Pan Am flight over Scotland killing 189 Americans on their way home for Christmas.
 
Eighteen American soldiers died in Somalia in 1993 and six Americans died in the first World Trade Center bombing with over a thousand injured.  
 
At 9:03 on the morning of April 19, 1995, a Ryder truck blew up in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City .  On that spring day 168 people died—many of them small children.  This classic Islamic attack was quickly blamed on two “home-grown” terrorists.  This case is in the process of being re-examined due to overwhelming evidence that al Qaeda and possibly Saddam Hussain were involved.
 
In 1996, 19 Americans died when Islamists blew up the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia .  Also in 1996 there was the mysterious downing of TWA Flight 800.  There were 169 Americans on board.  
 
August 7, 1997 was the last day on earth for 23 Americans who were at the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya .  
 
The year 2000 brought the attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 American sailors.  
 
This, of course, brings us to the attack on September 11, 2001.  There have been many more attacks leading up to that horrible day and not once has Islam apologized.  
 
I hear, “We don’t want to sink to the Islamists’ level.”  I don’t want to hear that any more either.  There is absolutely no comparison to be made.  Islamic prisoners are fed, clothed, and allowed to practice the very religion that has sworn to kill us all.  I don’t hear any Islamic outrage over the hostage beheadings or Iraqi children being targeted by Islamic butchers.  I didn’t hear a peep of anger when a British imam said children were legitimate targets for Islam.  

Islam seems to have no limit to the evil it will inflict on others.  Because of this, Islam has lost all rights to protest an imagined injustice inflicted on it.

About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at http://www.republicanandproud.com/. Barbara J. receives e-mail at [email protected] 

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