I think you muddy the waters Dr Fahad

Submitted by Nick (United States), Aug 7, 2006 at 15:39

How indeed can a religion like Islam condone terrorism? The sad fact is that it does so everyday. I majored in history and I know of how Mohammad...got his little empire of hate started. I can not respect this so called prophet... Yes, I have read the Koran and I do know Mohammad justified wars of conquest against unbelievers. Of all the major religions of the world Islam is the most violent and aggressive. Is this an accident or is there something fundamentally sick with the very soul of that religion?

You ask if what Israel is doing is right? I answer yes and a thousand times yes. Israel is trying to exist and was established by the UN. At the same time the Palestinians were given a state. The problem comes from the fact that despite all the meaningless rhetoric about Islam being peaceful and tolerant it most certainly is not! Let me ask you Dr. Fahad, how many mosques exist in Israel and the West and how free are Muslims to practice their religion? Now, how many chuches exist in Saudi Arabia? How free are Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus etc. to practice their faiths if they are unfortunate enough to live in a Muslim country?

If Islam was not aggressive how did Muslims come to be in Kashmir in the first place? As far as I know historically Pakestan and Kashmir belonged to India. It is because the Muslims came as invaders just as they did in Palestine, Syria, what is today Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, Egypt, North Africa, Anatolia, and even into theVisigoth Kingdom of Spain and on into France. Islam was never, isn't today and probably will never be a religion of peace. It was spread by the sword and this latest round of aggressive violence is just the lastest chapter of Islamic aggression in a 1400 year long attempt to take over the world.

You ask why America invaded Iraq. Because weapons of mass destruction were discovered there despite the liberal media squashing the story. I know Muslims like to say Israel is at fault for the aggressive behavior of Muslims. As they say in the south of the US, that dog won't hunt. The Islamic terror in India and Indonesia has nothing to do with Israel, nor does the genocidal slaughter of blacks in the Sudan. The fact; Islam is simply an aggressive philosophy aimed at world domination dressed up as a religion.

I admit Islam is unique among the religions of the world. Most religions seek universals and try to give people a moral code that betters them. Islam teaches only Muslims are worthy and everyone else is unclean and should be conquered. A religion that still officially believes the world is flat and women are half as good as men. Wonderful enlightened religion!!! It is hard for me to believe people actually follow this in the 21st century.

As far as your closing question. Mohammad said other things not quite so inncent sounding. Let me reverse it. You tell me how Muslims continue to maim and kill from the USA to Thailand on almost a daily basis. You tell me how planting bombs on railroads or flying planes into buildings isn't Islamic terror. I think I have a very good idea of jihad and I only hope and pray the West will answer as it once did, with a Crusade. And by the way, Dr. Fahad, the Crusades were defensive wars launched by the Europeans after hundreds of years of Islamic aggression. You see, I do know my history.

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