[E Rocc]

There's no amount of "growing up" that can fix the fundamental fact of Islam being established on hostility to all other ways of life. We have no true Muslim allies, by the very definition of what it means to be Muslim. All we have are apostates and heretics, and those who will temporarily work with us in order to gain advantage over another adversary.

Most religious faiths, in principle, consider non-adherents to be second class citizens at best. Most grow up over time. With the exception of terrorism (a relatively recent innovation in and of itself) there is little Islam has done that other faiths have not done. We had riots over the translation of the Bible as recently as the 19th century even in the US.

-Eric

[thoughtomator]

My friend, you need to read up on your Islam. I can name quite a number of things that are unique to Islam that don't appear in other religions. Jihad, for example, has no equivalent in any other religion. Other religions may have "holy wars" but no other religion demands of its followers the eternal state of war against all who don't share their beliefs. No "Dar el-Harb" in other religions. No jirza - a tax specifically for non-believers. There's no other religion with an equivalent of dhimmitude, or taqiyya. No other religion you will ever find has hudna or any near equivalent established as doctrine.

Nor is terrorism a new phenomenon; Mohammad himself practiced it (read the Koran). Muslims have been engaged in it for as long as there have been Muslims - the United States fought its first post-revolutionary war against the very same (War against the Barbary States, 1802).

That the most recent example you can find in another religion dates back two centuries should throw in stark relief the savagery and barbarity that is Islam. Islam remains savage and barbaric not because it is simply awaiting reform or maturity, but rather because it demands such behavior from its followers.

Don't fool yourself. Islam is not just another religion. It is a totalitarian creed little different from Nazism and Communism, and every bit the mortal threat to the free people of the world.