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"yesterday you implied those that are anti Muslim are bigots. You need to understand our point of view. Since we truly believe it is an evil cult, how do you expect us to embrace it with open arms?"

The definition of a bigot (in this case muslim bigot), is one who isn't tolerant.....No one is expecting you to embrace islam with "open arms.

"I, as I'm sure most on this board, just want to know what the truth is and then deal with it."

The truth is, there are different muslim sects, and muslims come in many colors, nationalities,etc. The truth is, most on the board don't sound tolerant to me. Do they to you? Intolerance to an entire race, creed, religion of people is bigoted.

"So, if we disagree, lets all try to be respectful and try to use persuasion and facts to teach our point of view."

Are you addressing this to the disrespectful people posting their prejudiced, nasty comments toward muslims as a whole?

Nuconvert, I agree with most of what you say on Islam, but lets not categorize the posters here that we disagree with as being bigots necesarily, though there may be a similarity on the surface.

Most of these people are just angry at what the terrorists are doing and anger is known to be hasty and a little too quick to ignore finer details.

That is why I thank God that George W Bush is not a hot head and recieves steady council.

I was addressing everyone to be respectful of others. If I was disrespectful to you yesterday,nuconvert then I do apologize. My intention was not to be disrespectful or hateful to you or your opinion.

I do not hate Muslims. But I don't accept an ideology that wants to kill me either. Although it may appear there is only a small percentage that are radical, I believe that what you call "moderate" Muslims will stand behind their fellow Muslims before they will turn on them and stick up for the Americans.

I haven't heard any of them speak out against what happened on 9/11. Why is that? It probably is fear. So when the radicals decide to attack us again, who do you think the moderates are going to stand with? That is my question. If they follow the Quran and so called non believers are infidels, where does that leave us non Muslims? How many Muslims are Muslims because they have no choice? When a "religion" has as its objective to have the entire world be under Islamic rule, then I'm concerned. As a Christian, I would like the entire world to be Christian, but it is a free choice that one can make, and I certainly wouldn't want to kill those who don't accept Christ's gift.

Look at what happened to Van Gogh in the Netherlands. He exposed how the woman in this "religion" are mistreated and he was slaughtered for it.
We should be able to speak out about injustice or mistreatment, without being killed for it.

I would still like to know how you reconcile the Quran's commands to kill infidels and how I, as a Christian, should not feel threatened by that?