palerider, bubbling drivel !
You know as well as I that there are more than three Muslims who are not like that.
Assuming their having 'drawn first blood',
wasn't there Someone who told us to forgive ...isn't that part of OUR religion ?
Especially when the offense was nearly fourteen hundred years ago ?
Well there might be some things I know about Islam which you haven't heard -
For instance, can you tell me the most famous quote by Ibn al-Araibi ?
It is a piece of wisdom worthy of John Paul II in its good will and spiritual maturity, and I will find it for you in case you haven't run across it in whatever diatribes you read against Islam.
Actually I thought Muhammed said he got it from the angel "Jabril" (Gabriel ?) and I thought the Lord was named Allah.
But what does all this show except that you are sure your faith is the true one and his isn't ?
I'm guessing that you feel the same way about the Hindu faith and the Jewish faith, but that's not grounds to prosecute a war against them with no foreseeable end in sight.
India is more poor than they, and India is primarily Hindu.
The religion is not the cause of their economic problems.
Palerider,
the Muslim nations were not a source of terror for us - at all - in modern times until we started messing around in the affairs of their countries.
Apart from your critique of the religion based on its lack of miracles and wonders, your chief complaint seems to be about the lifestyle of Muhammed.
*Don't you understand that they all married young girls back in those times ...it was less an orgy of sex than it was polygamy - which ancient Hebrews also practiced.
*I don't know of any evidence of extraordinary greed in the life of Muhammed; he had married a successful business woman, is all.
*The violence practiced by Muhammed towards his enemies was often reactive and defensive, and was no more brutal than that of Joshua in the taking of Canaan and other lands in that area. And I'm sure there is little need for me to rehearse the violent deeds of my own Christian forbearers.
Will you please stop painting ALL Muslims with such a broad brush, and making this effort to vilify Muhammed ?
It's not necessary !
I'm not sitting here trying to prettify the religion and conceal the Wahabbhist agenda.
