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To: SuziQ

I won't dispute that, really. The Islam most Muslims are taught today is far, far different from the Islam Muslims were taught in the Middle-Ages. Today their scholars teach hatred, murder and "holy war". I find this as abhorrent as all of you who've taken time to debate with me on this thread.

Once again, I'm not justifying anything there - just saying that I don't want Christianity, the religion I was raised into, turn into an equivalent of present-day Islam. I do not want to see His message distorted to become a message of hatred. I want terrorists to be punished in a fitting manner, as well as those who helped or harbored them, but I don't want to see some quiet, law-abiding people been insulted or likened to criminals because they happen to believe in a different God than me.


115 posted on 05/26/2004 8:50:05 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: Atlantic Friend
but I don't want to see some quiet, law-abiding people been insulted or likened to criminals because they happen to believe in a different God than me.

How many instances of Christians harming Muslims have you heard about in THIS country since 9/11? You're be hard pressed to come up with very many. Americans are a very tolerant people in their direct dealings with their fellow citizens, but frankly, I don't blame Christians for being suspicious of their Muslim neighbors, once they understand just what Islam truly teaches as a result of it's pushing Wahhabism, a truly violent sect, and it's not just in the Madhrassas in Pakistan. Wahhabists are the leading sect of Islam today, funded around the world by the Saudis in their attempt to stave off rebellion among their own people.

I guess we're just not as trusting as we were before 9/11. Maybe that will save our lives.

119 posted on 05/26/2004 9:03:16 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Atlantic Friend
I won't dispute that, really. The Islam most Muslims are taught today is far, far different from the Islam Muslims were taught in the Middle-Ages.

And what was hteIslam that they were taught that was so different? Did it stop them from the slaughter in the Balkans? Did it stop them killing over 100 million Hindus from the 10th century onwards?
139 posted on 05/26/2004 10:16:06 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4)
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To: Atlantic Friend
Once again, I'm not justifying anything there - just saying that I don't want Christianity, the religion I was raised into, turn into an equivalent of present-day Islam.

It won't. It can't because it never did. At no point did Christianity say "Go Kill Infidels" At no point did Christ say that.

Mo DID say that. Mo did DO that. And that is whatIslam has always preached.

Where did you get the idea that they were ever peaceful? Even in the middle ages?
140 posted on 05/26/2004 10:17:45 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4)
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