Sara is Dead Wrong

Submitted by Scott (United States), Feb 14, 2003 at 12:48

Sarah,
You are obviously upset about someone finding fault with your religion, but you should not let anger get in the way of being factually accurate. One of the major reasons that islam is the fastest growing religion in the world is that it is dominant in asia where the populations are exploding anyway not to mention that in those countries no other religion is allowed to spread their beliefs under penalty of death. You dont really hear a lot of "experts" talk about this, but it is true.

Secondly, we are not "picking" fights in Afganistan, if you remember they were harboring sworn enemies of this country that had already "picked" a fight with us. There is one thing that I do agree with Sarah on and that is that islam doesnt need propaganda to recruit, it has the full weight of the death penalty in many countries to prompt believers into the fold. If most defenders of islam would look inside instead of blaming everyone else for their problems then just maybe islam wouldnt be vilified as it so rightly deserves.

Scott

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