[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.

[bereanway]

Not to attack your Saudi friend directly, but what he said just flat out ain't true. The House of Saud supports terrorism around the world in numerous ways, by funding madrassas in numerous countries around the world (12,000 in Pakistan alone) which teach young Muslim warriors to hate and kill the infidels. There simply is no faction within Christianity or any other religion which even comes close in scope and extent to the terrorism given meaning by Islam.

I went to Enginnering School in the US with a large number of international students which included quite a few ME Muslims. Their hatred of Jews and Israel and our support of Israel I would say appears to be nearly universal. Almost every evidence we see from celebrating in the streets after 9/11 to polls in the ME contradict what your friend has stated.