[Celtjew Libertarian]

Yeah, you're right. All I know about the so-called "religion of peace" is what I saw on Sept. 11, 2001, the Nick Berg video, the school children in Russia, the failure of most of the rest of the Muslim world to publicly condemn those responsible for Muslim violence, etc. Need I go on? Naw, just re-read my last phrase until it begins to sink in.

Yup... I guess that's all you know.

On the other hand, there was the Islamic professor who got me into grad school and his wife. His best friend from back home, who had been one of my mother's friends, when they taught in the same department. The Islamic doctor among the six I work for now (soon to be 2 Islamic among 7). The Islamic grad student, who was a good friend of my in-laws -- who my wife describes as the most pro-Zionist non-Jew she ever met.

Heck, as someone aware of Jewish history, it's only in the past two hundred years or so that Christians have been more tolerant than Muslims. Go back more than three-hundred years, it's the Muslims who had a far more tolerant society.

"The religion of peace" was a particularly inept phrase on Bush's part. No religion is a religion of peace, once it gets power. Not Islam. Not Christianity. Even Judaism, isn't exactly a religion peace. And, yes, there are times that I think, Mecca delenda est.

But I'm with Williams on this. If nothing else, when I read this cr@p and consider the Muslim friends I know, I am embarrassed to be on FreeRepublic.

[Williams]

Thank you. If all moslems really were evil zealots I would have no problem wanting to fight them all. But like you I have seen some additional reality. And there is no reason to fight someone who is not your enemy. Nor is there any reason to show such disrespect for another religion.

My comments obviously do not apply to any terrorist, or any terrorist supporter or sympathizer. That person's religion, or their version of it, I can easily learn to hate.

[Junior]

...there was the Islamic professor who got me into grad school and his wife.

He helped you get into grad school and his wife?

Damn! I wish I'd had professors like that when I was in college.