[Ben Bolt]

If all that Mr. Trifkovic writes is true then this is a religious war and better be understood as one. I understand that President Bush cannot declare it so as there are American Citizen who are Muslims. However, we who are American Citizens who are not Muslim must understand this is a war against all who are infidels (any and all non muslims), and our death, or conversion is the goal. The fall of our economics, freedoms, tolerance, rights the very things our Constitution protects are grist for their death mill.

This is very frightening in it's historical succeess overwhelming. This is a war we are fighting that will go on forever, and we must be vigilent that we do not become complacent, because it can happen that we lose all that we have. Europe is in a panic right now over the large Muslim immigration, rightly so, it appears.

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At the outset of the Islamic conquests under Muhammad's successors all of these lands were 100 percent Christian. At the outset of the Ottoman rule they had a Christian plurality, and in Palestine and Lebanon the outright majority. Under the British Mandate, Palestine officially was a Christian country, with Bethlehem having a population that was 90 percent Christian.

BTW until 1910 or thereabouts, Instanbul was a majority Christian ( orthodox ) city

[vooch]

At the outset of the Islamic conquests under Muhammad's successors all of these lands were 100 percent Christian. At the outset of the Ottoman rule they had a Christian plurality, and in Palestine and Lebanon the outright majority. Under the British Mandate, Palestine officially was a Christian country, with Bethlehem having a population that was 90 percent Christian.

BTW until 1910 or thereabouts, Instanbul was a majority Christian ( orthodox ) city