[cricket]

Hopeless to compare barbarities. . .but we do know the Christians moved foward. . .let us say. . .to a more enlightened world view; whereas the core of Islam. . .and it's adherents. . .have not.

[cricket]

Agree. . .we know all too well, how a 'asking for any forgiveness'. . .ie if only framed by a request for a 'pardon' is seen as weakness and loathed by any Muslim, worth his stone-aged, Islamic salt.

[Uncle Miltie]

Quite right. I keep reminding my Jewish family and friends:

"Who is killing us now? Let us focus on that, and let history reside in books."