The Religion of Peace?

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 11/01/05 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

One of the things I like to do occasionally is to visit some political forums on the internet to see what people, other than those who are journalists or bloggers, are saying. Whenever I do, I am often amazed at the number of people who have greatly distorted ideas about the Muslim religion and about Muslim terrorism around the world. In my view, 1. Muslim terrorism is an extremely serious threat to all non-Muslims and to peaceful Muslims alike; 2. it has been happening, in greater or lesser dimensions, since the Middle Ages; 3. it has become much more serious recently as Muslims have emigrated to Western countries and have gotten their hands on highly destructive weapons; and 4. it is endorsed by the Muslim religion, but not supported by the great majority of Muslim peoples.

The distortions that I see are twofold, and they are exact opposites: one group thinks that, since the Muslim religion calls for violent jihad against non-believers, all Muslims must be considered part of this jihad, and non-Muslims must oppose them on every front; the other group says that terrorism by Muslims is merely a nuisance, and, anyway, should be considered justified by the past oppressions against them.

[faq]

There is a link in this article to an interesting web site called TheReligionofPeace.com that is maintaining a tabulation of every Muslim atrocity that has taken place around the world since 9/11. Thanks for the info and link.

[Fenris6]

LGF does a good job revealing Islam in today's PCBS climate:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php