You flatter yourself "Fazal" why still evading the issues.

Submitted by kman (United States), Oct 11, 2010 at 20:25

Your prophet was much more than "warrior" and "statesman". You are sugar-coating again rather than admit to the full extent of your prophet's many moral failings. "lived his life to the full" is another way of evading the issues.

"Not peaceful – recently" - ? The only time Islam has been peaceful is when their aggressions were slapped down after many attempts to accede to "treaties" demanding ransoms and much else.

Islam started its aggressions in Northern Africa and quickly spread on into the Middle East, India, Spain, and the rest of Europe. They weren't any reaction at all to anyone's treating them with disrespect. During the early years of the United State's infancy, American and all other merchant ships were continually raided captured, sunk, and crews slaughtered or forced into slavery. America and others submitted to various ransoms to bring about "peace" and stop the piracy. To no avail. The Muslims were soon back at what they do best – lie, cheat, murder, and steal. They justify it by their own prophet's "fullness of life" teachings.

This is one small sample that has typified Islam throughout its entire history. No one has sought to "force" their religion on Muslims. Quite the contrary. It has been the Muslim code from the very beginning to "force everything – and you demand respect?!

Treated as "equals"? Don't make me laugh.

Leaving you "alone" means letting you go ahead and destabilize the entire planet. Get a grip, man. Get off the continued soft-soaping of your own practices throughout history. Western nations built your entire oil complexes. Your alliance with Hitler in World War II was fully forgiven and your oil lands given carte blanche to little more than what existed of your civilization – tribes.

You've brought on your own disrespect with lie, murder, and pretense.

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