muawiyah, you appear to be the number one apologist for Islam on this website. What religious persuasion are you anyway, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, New Age Occultist, Mason, atheist, or what? Or none of the above, just a post stirrer.
First of all, I live in an incredibly mixed neighborhood. I can spit in any direction and hit anything from a Moslem to a Jain.
Secondly, I've studied the Middle and Near East extensively over the years.
You will find I am not "apologizing for Islam" but instead I'm usually correcting the record regarding ignorant claims. The Moslem world has enough problems without folks trying to solve the problems it doesn't have.
In my experience those guys are no more blood thirsty than Christians or Buddhists or Hindus have demonstrated themselves to be, nor are they less blood thirsty (as long as nobody looks at WWII). There are several other regular Free Republic posters who keep pointing this out to folks ~ to wit: these guys are human too.
In the meantime I actually belong to a mind-numbed, robot-like, knee-jerk Liberal mainline denomination called the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). They still preach ecumenicalism. I also have close relatives galore (by the hundreds), and some of them belong to the original cult, live out on mountain sides or other wilderness areas, wear sackcloth, don't see doctors, and chew peyote in between smoking doobies. I even found a couple of cousins at a two removes up at Red Lake the other day ~.
So, what would you prefer that I say about Moslems? Should I say they are all moongod worshipping crazy people? Or, maybe I should pass on my personal experience, one of which is that Abe across the way is a nice guy, and Abe two blocks down is also a nice guy, as is Mohammad, and Ahmet, and Mo, and Omar ~ I think you should get out more often. Meet the world. Find out what you have in common. Cease looking for reasons to kill your neighbors.