This is going to my liberal friend who is retired State Department and doesn't believe jihads have been around for a long time.
Thanks to each of you. As the Irish say, "Bless your eyes"!
I LOVE Free Republic. Rapid Response Team in action again!
Leni
Tell your liberal friend to read Muir's 'The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall.
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Books/Muir/Caliphate/index.htm
And on my bio page, there are links to the works of Edward, Canon Sell. One of them is the biography of mohammad published in 1913. pdf download.
Checking in briefly while drying my daughter's hair and getting them to bed.
I could not agree with you more Leni, everyone contributes what they know and very soon, the truth is sorted out.
And thanks to you, Dane, for making what is a very important thread (given the implications), and yet what is understandably (given the underwhelming response to Iraq, and the fact that thousands of Americans died to clean up France's mess in what was known then, I think IndoChina) one that most American conservatives don't give a ... darn about.
Here's a Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War