Misinformed rubbish

Submitted by James Fisher (United Kingdom), Feb 28, 2007 at 13:52

... the idea that Muslims "enslave and rape populations" is simply fiction, and is trying to create the Muslim religion as a war-like one. In many ways Islam is much more civilised than even the most evangelical Christian and one cannot describe a religion as "war mongers and evil doers" just on the actions of a few extremists. The Jihad is a war against the oppresion of a race or even of someone. Muhhamad's "supreme" Jihad was one against the evils in oneself. The Jihad is not a crazed act of war, but merely a rising up of suppressed peoples.

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