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:::Also, as he is the president now, wouldn't it be far more constructive to work on things about his articulated agenda, and how it will affect Americans, write about how to influence our Congress people to stand up to agenda, and how to work with him to reflect what real Americans want - rather than report on unproven and unsupported claims?  It would be beyond comprehension if something said by panicked conservatives (not specifically here, just in genera) caused someone to think the right answer is to assassinate him.  Far better to focus on what we CAN do to remind our government who they serve - themselves or us.--[[User:JeanJacques|JeanJacques]] 11:26, 10 November 2008 (EST)
 
:::Also, as he is the president now, wouldn't it be far more constructive to work on things about his articulated agenda, and how it will affect Americans, write about how to influence our Congress people to stand up to agenda, and how to work with him to reflect what real Americans want - rather than report on unproven and unsupported claims?  It would be beyond comprehension if something said by panicked conservatives (not specifically here, just in genera) caused someone to think the right answer is to assassinate him.  Far better to focus on what we CAN do to remind our government who they serve - themselves or us.--[[User:JeanJacques|JeanJacques]] 11:26, 10 November 2008 (EST)
 
::::There are several points wrong with youe assertion.  1) He is not the president now, George W. Bush is. 2) His muslim faith is not unsupported and is far from irrelivant.  It will effect his leadership (shiria law anyone?) and his cabinet choices.  It is a very big deal seeing as he is the first non-Christian president ever elected.  Are we suppose to just stick our heads in the sand??[[User:Patriot1505|Patriot1505]] 12:43, 10 November 2008 (EST)
 
::::There are several points wrong with youe assertion.  1) He is not the president now, George W. Bush is. 2) His muslim faith is not unsupported and is far from irrelivant.  It will effect his leadership (shiria law anyone?) and his cabinet choices.  It is a very big deal seeing as he is the first non-Christian president ever elected.  Are we suppose to just stick our heads in the sand??[[User:Patriot1505|Patriot1505]] 12:43, 10 November 2008 (EST)
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:::::Andy, you say that less than one percent of people raised as Muslims convert to another religion and use that percentage as if it is not a significant number.  It is.  Let us assume that there are one billion Muslims in the world today- this is a conservative estimate, using numbers from [http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html www.adherents.com].  Let us then assume that, for the sake of a conservative estimate, that 0.1% of Muslims convert to other religions.  That means that out of the one billion Muslims alive today, one million would convert.  That's more than the population of San Jose, California.  This is not an insignificant number of people.
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:::::My point here, Andy, is that your use of this statistic is not a good argument.  Less than one percent is a far cry from none.  [[User:Corry|Corry]] 12:46, 10 November 2008 (EST)
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