Noah

Submitted by Safraz (United States), Dec 29, 2006 at 14:41

Noah,

You have a severe lack of perspective. If you were around during the height of the Ottoman Empire - when it was the world's center of science, medicine, and the arts - and when at the same time Europeans were at constant war with each other living in backwards filth infested villages and towns - you would probably be arguing that Islam was superior because its fruits were better than Christianity's. You would've been as wrong then, as you are wrong now. History is not over.

Furthermore, you somehow dissassociate Jim Jones and Jonestown from Christianity. Jones was a Christian - does that make Christianity a religion of violence? Or does that make Jim Jones a radical Christian who is to be condemned, much like bin Laden and his cohorts are radical Muslims to be condemend?

And let me ask you - when last has Muslim tried to convert you? A good Muslim never tries to convert anyone by force.

"Let there be no compulsion
In religion: Truth stands out
Clear from Error: Whoever
Rejects Evil and believes
In God hath grasped
The most trustworthy
Hand-hold, that never breaks.
And God heareth
And knoweth all things."

The Koran, 2:256.

Safraz.

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