I am curious about something....

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For a view of how folks can handle situations in very different ways: Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr.  "By any means neccesary" vs. "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

Both men were working for a much needed change, just from different angles.  I feel both men and their views were neccesary to the civil rights movement.  Some folks will only respect the need to change when you give 'em a good smack upside the head.  Also, if everyone that wanted change was militant about it I doubt that there would have been a positive outcome.  Sort of like the difference between having a bus boycott and firebombing all the busses.

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MLK and MX lived under very difficult circumstances, no doubt. However, comparing the government that they lived under and the current and pretty much historical regimes under Islam, is apples and oranges. Upon uttering their first discontented voices, MLK and MX would have been killed. Period. Don't compare.



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