reality?

Submitted by Mike (United States), Apr 17, 2007 at 20:59

The only reason you seem to think the area around Israel belongs to Islam is because the murderous followers of Islam attacked and conquered it in an earlier era..600, 750 ad. You seem to feel bad that someone had the nerve to take it back from you. The Crusades were just a belated attempt to free some of the areas your "religion" conquered, so that pilgrims could continue to visit the Holy Land without being murdered.

Most of us are not oblivious to the violent and bloody history of your "religion", and how it is spread... convert or die. Most religions feel that life is sacred, Islam does not. Most religions believe in "human rights", Islam does not. You seem to think that Americans are intolerant of others... but where else on the face of this planet besides the US can you see so many different peoples, races, religons, living together in peace? (in spite of what the liberal press would have you believe) Certainly not in Egypt or Saudi Arabia.

The only people who do not seem to "play well with others", are Muslims. Muslims are at war with Americans in Iraq and Afganistan. They are fighting Animists in Africa, Hindus in Kashmir. Buddhists in Southeast Asia... They are blowing up nightclubs, schools. Police stations, trains, buses, skyscrapers, and anything else they can to kill people. And they are under standing orders to kill Jews on sight anywhere in the world. Please do not tell me Islam is a "peaceful" religon... it's a lie. But that is part of your "religon" as well... you should not lie to true followers if Islam, but it's ok to lie to infidels.

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