The point I was trying to make about your examples is that it seemed as though you were trying to excuse what Islam is doing right now because other religions have had a violent past. I was saying that these things do not matter to me because they are well in the past. What I was saying about the crusades was to counter your argument that there had been peace in the region until Jews began moving there in mass. The history of the slaughter of Jews during the crusades and afterwards proves my point that there has never been a long standing peace with Jews, Christians and Muslims in Palestine.
The death rate of Palestinians compared to Israelis is the poorest determination of aggression I've ever heard. If a Palestinian blows himself up in a cafe and kills 15 people, it is very easy for Israel to launch air strikes at a training camp and kill 30. By your logic that puts Israel as the aggressor just because they killed more. That is simply nonsense. I am still asking for you to provide one example of an Israeli offensive that was not provoked in some way by Palestinians.
To say that Iran was not corrupt after the revolution is laughable. Bin Ladin did not attack them because he saw eye to eye with them on building an Islamic state, and states that did not practice religion the way he saw fit were standing in the way of that. Egypt was certainly a religiousely moderate government, and it became the first target of bin Ladin when he set up shop in Sudan.
The U.S. military is protecting you right now in Iraq by taking down a government that allowed Islamic terrorists free reign to operate inside its borders. You can argue all you want about what you think the motives for this war are, but saying that nearly all foreign wars or interventions since 1950 have benefitted corporations of Israel is going a bit too far. Lets see...
First Gulf War-protected Muslims
Somalia-protected Muslims
Bosnia-protected Muslims
Afghanistan-liberated Muslims
Iraq-liberated Muslims
I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
