Pagan is correct, yet the blind cannot see and the deaf will not hear.

Submitted by RPaine (Australia), Feb 13, 2006 at 19:04

I agree with you Pagan. When having to pick the odd-ball out of the following list of leaders, one clearly doesn't fit (as a peaceful being): Buddha, Jesus, Mahatma Ghandi, Srila Prabhupada, Gerald Gardner, Zarathushtra, Mother Theresa, Mohammad, Guru Nanak Dev and Confucius, Mohammad falls short - he is the dwarf amongst giants. Mohammad is the only major religious leader who has promoted violence as a strategy for his followers, and Islam is the only religion that has grown from giving its captives the following "peaceful" choices: (1) convert to Islam by accepting "Allah as the one and only god and Mohammad as the true prophet", (2) be beheaded as a non-Muslim, or (3) be enslaved as a non-Muslim. (To these choices I say, Death before Dishonour, old Mo'...and let the cartoons roll!!)

To M'Hamed CHETTALI: playing will not help you now, we are no longer going to fall for these tricks. It doesn't matter how much you criticise others/us, (a fact of life is) until you can become self-critical you will never ascend to a higher standard of consciousness/being/happiness, no matter how seductive a word you use. Look inwardly for hope and healing, and the respect you so desire will flow from every direction.

You know, given the horror that non-Muslims have experienced for the past 1300 years, by Islamists and during their conversion to Islam, it makes me wonder why more Muslims don't despise the Islamists/Wahhabis/terrorists that so horrified their peaceful ancestors! These are the very terrorists that instilled fear into many peaceful populations - India/Hindus, Asia/Buddhists/Confusists and in the Middle East, Christians and Jews. I guess it's just easier (safer!) to blame the other guy (the West) than it is to clean up your own house (Islam). We are looking for a sign of good, Muslims - will the Islamists lead you by the nose and control your every thought or will you begin to rip out that (Islamist) cancer that is killing your hopes and dreams?


RPaine

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