[El Cid]

I worked in Silicon Valley for over 35 years. I can say that the people that I knew were Muslims (I didn’t ask, and generally they did not advertise) were honorable, and gracious, gentlemen. I liked them on a personal level. My problem is with the Koran. Yes, I understand the majority of Muslims ignore what the book espouses, but the Koran says what it says. Cognitive dissonance is the term that I believe is used. They have to keep two sets of books in their brains, and the fear is that they might get bitten with the ‘olde time religion’, and become infected with Sudden Jihadi syndrome.

I don’t have a good answer, but at a minimum, we should bring the Gospel to all.

[Jamestown1630]

It would be nice to bring the Gospel to all; but many people born, raised, conditioned to a certain set of beliefs and way of perceiving the world and their place within it are not going to be receptive.

I just don’t think it’s ‘our job’ to CHANGE people.

People - and cultures - have to change from within; otherwise, they never really OWN the change.

(On another level, how much have all of our attempts at interventionist ‘nation building’ ever really achieved? Almost everyone in the world that we’ve attempted to ‘benefit’ seems to hate us...)