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To: TonyRo76

I'm being totally serious, I was thinking about this last night and I cannot think of one single thing in history done in the name of Islam that was not barbaric and in keeping with the Koran. I'll be the first to acknowledge that Jews and Christians have done many horrible things through history and claimed that it was in the name of God, but we can look back and see that these were men who tried to portray their own crimes as the will of God -- no voice of reason like this exists for Islam.


40 posted on 09/11/2006 11:09:01 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee
I was thinking about this last night and I cannot think of one single thing in history done in the name of Islam that was not barbaric

Well, in Medieval times (1100-1200) there was a lot of enlightened thinking in the Muslim nations. Knowledge and logical thinking were highly valued. Scholars in the 'Dark Ages' of Europe used to travel there in order to learn. That of course changed, now it's almost a reversal with higher learning in the non-muslim nations and the stone ages in the muslim nations.

61 posted on 09/11/2006 1:14:19 PM PDT by yhwhsman ("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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