... Lisa

Submitted by Sunny (Germany), Aug 28, 2007 at 04:35

If you really know anything about history of Islam you have to bear in mind that the prophet and his followers has been attacked and harassed at the beginning and has been enforced to leave their home and family to avoid being killed. Jihad was later necessary to defend their self and was the only way to survive, especially against neighbouring ancient kingdoms those have regarded Islam and Muslims as threat and make it to their duty to root it out. It is people like you still attacking Islam and stamps it as if it invented war forgetting that jaws and Christians made the start a long before the coming of Islam and till today whether attacks on Jerusalem, colonialism , Slavery, First, Second War our what USA and others European countries still doing today against Arabic, African and Muslims countries.

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