[rickmichaels]

...Islam is a peaceful religion that has helped shape the character of the United States...

It has also helped re-shape the skyline of Lower Manhattan.

[ovrtaxt]

ouch! hehehehe

[kittymyrib]

....and let's never forget it!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A friend of mine is a muslim (he's married to a Christian). He was born and raised in the Midwest but grew up in Saudi. He gave me some history on the people over there. The type of muslims that committed the attacks on America (he said) are a faction of lunatics. He said they are not the mainstream muslim (I guess your garden variety type muslim), and the mainstream muslims reject them. I guess it would be similar to what we have in America, where you have Christians who follow Christ and are born-again, but then there are the lunatic fringe types who use the title christian but have no faith, those being KKK, Aryan, etc.

I believe him when he said they reject those groups. However I do understand that Christianity that I accept and the Islamic faith are far different from each other.