Daniel Pipes is so right !!

Submitted by Tenton N. Horton (United States), Jan 26, 2010 at 10:41

The military (and the rest of us as well) should listen to what Daniel Pipes has to say about "Jihad" within our armed forces. His opinions are based upon an intimate knowledge of the workings of Islam.

While there are a multitude of good people in both Christianity and Islam....there is also a primitive driving force behind both religions. David Anderson has found the root of so many wars between these two historical religions. It all revolves around the general interpretation of God and Allah (one and the same ?) that was inherited from the "Old Testament Times" of Judaism. God (and subsequently Allah) is described as an avenging god, destined to bring terrible destruction down upon Humanity...this sets the stage for Humanity to do likewise...in the name of God , or Allah. (David Anderson's works can be found on www.inquiryabraham.com ...as well as his autobiography.)

These inherited teachings are the basis for "Jihad in the extreme".. now being utilized by Osama Bin Laden...and other extremists. (Jihad is rightly described as the struggle to make our world a better place...for everyone...not just Muslims. This was the Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) equivalent of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream").

These same inherited teachings were the "justification" for over one-hundred years of miserable slavery imposed upon Black Peoples by America...a Christian Nation.

I believe that we cannot have a peaceful world until both Islam and Christianity renounce their centuries old campaigns to make their respective religions dominant throughout the world.

We need nothing more than a simple set of moral "rules" in order to come to know a peaceful and cooperative world civilization. We need to believe in the Spirit of Humanity, itself.

Nelson Horton

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