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Submitted by unknown (United States), Jun 1, 2006 at 12:13

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but Christians can eat pork and drink wine. it's jewish people for who that is forbidden.

On the topic of Jihad, I have many friends who have read into it and studied it, even though Islam is not their religion. And they all agree that it is not meant to kill non-muslims. One friend even said that you "cannot kill in anger", which is exactly what militants are doing.

I consider myself Christian and I think back to the Spanish Inquisition, where so called "Christians" tortured and murdered non-Christians. All of my friends are non-Christians and they try to say that Christianity is a violent religion because of that. It's the same, judging a religion on the actions of a few and not on the teachings. I have nothing against Muslims who are truly knowledgeable of their religion.

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