Peace.

Submitted by I just want to live in peace. (Canada), May 18, 2010 at 18:40

In Islam, whenever there has been war it has been for the sake of humanity and in saying that is always been in defense. Read up on the battles (through reliable sources...i doubt you'll look at them at all.) and then say that the Prophet and his descendants, as the hill billies of the west like to say, "spread the religion with the sword." Its those stupid racist extremists who wage war against Americans...not muslims. I know that due to all the media bull that you will not take any of my words to be the truth but I hope people realize what the truth is eventually. People need to be able to tell between REAL (not moderate) muslims and extremists who claim to be muslims.

*on a side note: Moderate muslim = secular muslim = basically NOT very muslim at all.

Why can't we all just live in peace? In reality Muslims are told to handle kindly with people of other religions. The power of pride and cultural values has put the media into the illusion that muslims hate every other religion. For example the stereotype about Jews and Arabs (which is a race by the way NOT a religion) hating each other. This is not true for every Arab or jew and it is definitely not true for any TRUE muslim.

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