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the Islamic Congresss president, Mohamed Elmasry. Mr. Elmasry utter there ar bad Muslims just as there are bad Christians and Jews. "We treat them as such and so should you. But Islam is a religion of peace. Muslims have a religious duty to be patient of other faiths and other ideologies. Mr. Elmasry said journalists need to differentiate between the unaggressive teachings of Islam and the claims of about Muslim extremists that their actions are justified by their interpretations of Islam. He likened the note of Canadian Muslims today to that of Canadian Jews 50 years ago. " Judaic children were macrocosm (wrongly) c on the wholeed Christ-killers just as Muslim children are called terrorists today. In their letter to the editor in chief in the April 27 issue of the College Hill Independent, Jumana Musa and Shadi Nahvi made some excellent points. They rightly asserted that the Western press tends to portray Arabs and Muslims tally to stereotypes and these myths persi st partly due to Western popular ignorance about Arabs and Muslims. Since the Muslims students at Brown condemned the bombing of a Tel Aviv bus last year, I am learning to separate the handful of Muslim and Arab extremists who commit terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish civilians from the millions of Muslim believers who do not participate in this violence and sometimes express opposition to it. Since I began interacting with Muslims students through the kosher/hallal meal excogitate this year, I am changing my perceptions of Muslims and seeing them as people preferably of abstractions. I think that many, many people in the United States and in western countries, in Europe, are afraid of a monster called Islam. And as the honorable Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said, it is an insult to convey the whole of Muslims, to take them into virtuoso side, and make them extremists. Really it is not correct. It is a little bit insulting. What is the definition of extremism? We croup e see in all of history even when the rootage drawtlers came to the United States they were from different countries Spain, England, France, European Countries. They were fight on this land and fighting with the Indians. Do we call this extremism? A fight for a better living, which you construe you are doing not for a religious motive, is not extremism. Extremism in Islam, or in religion, is when you use religion to label intolerance, to... ... in the whole world. The US today as a result of the arrogant atmosphere has set a double standard, calling whoever goes against its injustice a terrorist. It wants to occupy our countries, take away our resources, impose on us agents to rule us based not on what God has revealed and wants us to agree on all these. If we go down to do so, it will say you are terrorists. The US does not dole out it a terrorist act to throw atomic bombs at nations thousands of miles away, when it would not be possible for those bombs to hit military troo ps only. The US does not consider it terrorism when hundreds of thousands of our sons and brothers in Iraq died for lack of food or medicine. It is known that every action has its reaction. If the American presence continues, and that is an action, then it is natural for reactions to continue against this presence. In other words, explosions and killings of the American soldiers would continue. A man with human feelings in his effect does not distinguish between a child killed in promised land or in Lebanon, in Iraq or in Bosnia. So how can we believe your claims that you came to save our children in Somalia while you kill our children in all of those places?