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"This expansion started with the extreme wealth created with the oil money. In this case, the oil 'money is the root of all evil.' "

A cursory reading of Middle Eastern Religion shows that murder, rape, evangelism by the sword, theft, oppression of the weak and the non-violent has been problematic in that region of the world ever since the ascendancy of Muhammed's example and teaching.

While muslims love to wallow in the pity of victimhood wrought by so-called Chirstian crusades, they do not like for people to remember that the Middle East was predominantly Judeo-Christian until the rise of Muhammed's hoards used the sword to kill or forcibly convert its populace from the onset of Muhammed's syncretism.

Jerusalem, the present and past object of muslim designs, never is even mentioned in the Quran. There was not a single muslim in Jerusalem when the Quran was written in the 7th Century AD. Muslims captured it by force of arms in Islamic jihads which predate the so-called Christian crusades by more than three centuries.

Islamic hoards swept across and conquered the Arabian Peninsula, the fertile Crescent, present day Turkey, Northern Africa and jumped the Straits of Gibraltar in less than one hundred years after the rise of Muhammed. Its progress was stopped cold on October 10, 732 AD in the Battle of Tours near the River Loire in France. Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlesmagnes, led Frankish tribes to defeat Abd-er-Rahman's superior numbers of muslims and saved Europe from Islamicization. For had the muslim won that battle--as Gibbon observed--instead of spires in Oxford there would have been minarets.

So this problem of the spreading of Islam by the sword is not a new phenomenon. It is inherent in the teachings and example of Muhammed, a bloody man himself, who fought in twenty-eight battles dcuring his violent life. It is the reason for the "growth" of Islam and is the greatest threat to world peace since the fall of the USSR.

Islam is a religion which teaches that Allah wants you send your son to die for him; Christianity is a faith which teaches that God sent His son to die for you.

So this problem of the spreading of Islam by the sword is not a new phenomenon. It is inherent in the teachings and example of Muhammed, a bloody man himself, who fought in twenty-eight battles dcuring his violent life. It is the reason for the "growth" of Islam and is the greatest threat to world peace since the fall of the USSR.

I guess we will never see this admitted openly by any member of ANY U.S. Administration. Too worried about jollying along our 'moderate' Arab 'allies'.