will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention."

Tamerlane may have been the worst ruler in the history of Islamic civilization, but he never reached that level of racism. The Jews lived in his capital of Samarqand just as they live today in Washington. (Story of Civilization v26)

Without doubt, whoever reads modern European history must acknowledge the level of religious freedom achieved in the United States with fewer losses of life than that in Europe, except that there is a terrible type of religious coercion practiced by and supported by millions of Americans under the eyes and ears of the government, intellectuals, and rights organizations, and which is moreover, supported by most charities in American society: evangelization in which a morsel of food or a dose of medicine is placed before the mouths of those suffering from hunger or pain, and they are told, “if you express your faith in Christ and accept [original] sin, the crucifixion, and the atonement, then take this morsel or this dose, or else ... ”

To prove that this sort of coercion is not the exception, we should understand that 30 billion dollars a year is spent on foreign missions, and that thousands of people and dozens of supporting universities, institutes, and broadcasting organizations are all working in this area.

There is a further example difficult to interpret in light of so-called religious freedom: Did John Walker, the American youth who accepted Islam and went to Afghanistan, err in his understanding of American freedom, or does this freedom have obscure and flexible limits which can be expanded to include the Israelis who plotted terrorist activities inside America, and narrowed so as not to understand what the actions of this innocent young man?

If it is his duty (according to American values) for a person to fight alongside his coreligionists and fellow citizens, then what if the problem with the Muslim volunteers who fought along with the Taliban? And why were these atrocities committed against them in Mazar Sharif and Cuba?

But if what is illegal is for a person to fight people of his own nationality and religion, then what are the actions of John Walker, who may never fired a weapon, in comparison to the butchery of the Northern Alliance who killed thousands or tens of thousands of their own people?

If only American justice has stopped at this indecent double standard, but it went beyond that to that which is not in the power of any human: seeking to change Muslim’s beliefs within their own country in their school curriculum, and by forbidding the third pillar of their faith: charity, in the name of rooting out terrorism.

We ask you, does this request have even the smallest connection with justice and religious freedom? Or anything else mentioned in your letter?

What about the Events of September 11th?