Lilly, I honestly don't care what happened thousands of years ago with regards to this issue, as it makes no difference about what is happening today. If a suicide bomber is actually thinking about Cathers when he goes to blow himself up, then I guess I'm giving him too little credit, but I don't think that is the case.
What exactly are you disputing about my claims that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus were peaceful while Muhammad was a militaristic leader? I have never heard anything to the contrary, and I have done quite a bit of research on the foundation of religion, so I do find it hard to believe that the majority of scholars look at the subject differently.
You say that Jews and Christians lived in peace with Arabs until the 19th century when there was a mass migration, but do you even remember the crusades? The wholesale slaughter of the Rhineland Jews? How far do you want to go back? Come on Lilly, there has been violence in that region for many centuries due to the fact that Muslims refuse to allow the existance Jews on what they have been told was their land.
You say that Israel is not a peaceful state, but I would challenge you to provide examples of Israeli violence which was not provoked by Palestinian terrorist actions. You can argue that Israel overreacts, but the fact is that all of there aggression is still a reaction.
Bin Ladin did not attack "corrupt" governments. He attacked religiousely moderate governments. Iran had high forms of corruption, yet they were safe from the terror attacks of bin Ladin. He chose to go after the moderates in Egypt for not adopting fundamentalist law. His is a holy war, nothing more.
I do not believe that the globe is America's to prosecute, but when other countries refuse to prosecute those within their borders, then America is justified to step in to protect itself and its allies.
