Try harder mate.

Submitted by Mo (United Kingdom), Jan 12, 2007 at 16:55

Iran is not considered by the majority of Sunni Muslims to represent them, so your argument there is void. Saudi Arabia does not resemble an ideal Islamic government; it is a monarchy that has only employed the Quran and Sunnah in their legal system, so your argument there is also void. But know where I said in my OP that they do not exist.

Islam does not promote global terrorism, you do with your foreign policies, and Islam works as a catalyst to work against your will of global domination. It provides people reason to defend their land, to seek justice for their dead and help save themselves.

Mr. Wilk, you are living in a world where fairy tales exists, for starters you can't nuke the places you mentioned because the real world will not permit it, your lefty liberals will fight you in your own ground without even the Muslims having to rise from their seats. Furthermore you forget, Muslims are close to 2 billion strong, you even bomb our holy sites whether Mecca or Medina, even the most ignorant, least practicing of Muslims will seek revenge.

Your war in Iraq caused such a shake up in the Muslim world that a sizeable majority amongst the youth were re-acquainted with their lost religion, people like me and thousands of other youth Muslims started to practice, learn and implement the faith of Islam... all this in a matter of days straight after the war started.

Picture this, and it is true, the day the Iraq war commenced, our school or over 1000 pupils refused to enter our school, then we caused demonstration within the vicinity of our school. Then we announced the call to pray (adthaan) from your school tannoy (speaker system) and prayed outside on the play ground, it was a magnificent sight, with over 700 pupils , both girls and boys praying at a single point. This was the beginning of what became of our resurrection of faith. From then on the numbers of youth coming to morning prayers in the mosque increased, so much so that some some had to pray outside of the largest Muslim mosque in Europe! My local Mosque, the East London Mosque and The London Muslims Centre.

You see, that was only the Iraq war, believe me, with an event of that magnitude that you describe, a nuke on one of our holy sites will only work against you. Really work against you. So If you think about it rationally, you still lose, because it would take your whole nuclear arsenal to kill all of us, even then we exist in your home town, many scholars people who have memorised the whole Quran and collectively memorised all the Hadiths. So our religion still would stand.

Try harder mate.

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