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Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Jan 29, 2010 at 11:12

>that why the West even a millinium since the crusades considers Islam as alien.

Oh the crusades right? Well our dear Deb the barbarians aka the Arabs invaded the Middle East in 633CE right our dear Deb the wannabe Arab? well this is a crusade right our dear Deb al-tablighee who needs to get a life? And do you know what this means? It means that islamic imperialism and the islamic crusades were alien to the people of the Middle East right our dear Deb?

But wait: Your Allah says that you should support other Muslims if they are attacked right our dear Deb the demagogue? then what is wrong with the Christians of Europe helping the Christians of the Middle east in sending those Arab barbarians that invaded their lands starting in 633CE back to Mecca? which means that your Allah the Arab would agree with the idea of the Christian crusades right our dear Deb?

My Answer >>>

Dear DNM , you need to understand that Arabs are also the people of the Middle East. Now if they had invaded and imposed Islam upon the non-Muslim people in the Middle East then the people of the middle east would have rejected Islam if they had a chance. Now you should know that quite a lot of the Middle East was under Mongol control. The Mongols destroyed the Arab rule in most parts of the Middle East. Now after that the Mongols themselves embraced Islam. Why would the people of the middle east now did not reject Islam when they had the chance ? And why did the Mongols who were baying for Arab blood at the time , embraced Islam which you call a result of Arabic Imperialism. Another point: remember countries in the Middle East like Algeria were under western colonial rule(French rule in this case) for most of the late 19-th century as well as early 20-th century.Now why did the people of the Algeria did not reject Islam during french rule ?

Do you have any answers to the above questions. If you do have give them. Remember I want well analyzed answers and not polemics like you have been giving until now.

Another point who says that West is Christian . Remember most Western nations were converted to Christianity under sword by the Roman empires at first and then by emperors like Charlemagne . Now do you also condemn the spreading of Christianity in the Western world under sword ? Do you also condemn the way Christianity were spread in the Americas ?

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