An Israeli Journalist's response to Pope Benedict regarding recent talk about Muhammad's Sword

1 posted on 11/27/2006 6:50:01 AM PST by askmuslim1

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for 50 generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times "by the sword" to get them to abandon their faith.

Wow. I must be on some kind of acid trip or something.

2 posted on 11/27/2006 6:55:44 AM PST by mad puppy ( The Southern border is THE issue)

IBTZ Uri Avnery is an Israeli journalist and peace activist.

3 posted on 11/27/2006 6:56:04 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)

Naw...the Pope got it right. Islam is evil and inhuman.

And Mohammed was demonically possessed by the devil/allah.

4 posted on 11/27/2006 6:58:53 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)

What Muslims never mention is that all Jews were expelled from Muslim Spain by the Muslims in the 12th century. Maimonides was one of those who left; most of them went to Christian parts of Spain or to other parts of the Middle East. Muslims made the Jews were a yellow star sewn to ther clothing, and Christians had to wear a yellow cross. Many of the things later done by Christians to Jews in Spain were practices that they had learned from their Muslim masters in the past, who originally applied these techniques to both Jews and Christians to control them.

No wonder the author's party is called the Revisionist Zionists.

5 posted on 11/27/2006 6:59:05 AM PST by livius

the reconquista of Spain by the Christians

So. Why did Spain have to be reconquered?

6 posted on 11/27/2006 6:59:11 AM PST by Tribune7

Did the Greeks become Muslims?

How about the Albanians and Bosnians?

7 posted on 11/27/2006 7:00:37 AM PST by Tribune7

For many centuries, the Muslims ruled Greece . Did the Greeks become Muslims? Did anyone even try to Islamize them? On the contrary, Christian Greeks held the highest positions in the Ottoman administration. The Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians and other European nations lived at one time or another under Ottoman rule and clung to their Christian faith. Nobody compelled them to become Muslims and all of them remained devoutly Christian.

What a load of crap. All of North Africa, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and large parts of Saudi Arabia were all Christian. Now they are a memory or a shrinking persecuted minority.

For example in the "Golden Age of Islam is Spain"

Muslim Spain was Christian Spain for over 400 years before being conquered by Islamic Armies in the 8th Century. That is the way the Islamic Religion has been historically spread, though military invasion and occupation. Treatment of conquered people has the same goal, the minimizing of other religions and conversion of the indigenous people. Among other rules for non Muslims in Muslim Spain; Christians and Jews could not bear arms -- Muslims could; Christians and Jews could not ride horses -- Muslims could; Christians and Jews had to get permission to build or fix places or worship -- Muslims did not; Christians and Jews had to pay certain taxes which Muslims did not; Christians could not proselytize -- Muslims could; Christians and Jews had to bow to their Muslim masters; Christians and Jews had to live under the laws set forth in the Koran, not under either their own religious or secular law; Christian’s and Jew's word in a court of law was not equal to a Muslim's Word; Christian and Jewish families had to give up a son for conversion and military service in Muslim armies and the most beautiful and largest Christian Churches were converted to Mosques. And the list goes on.

8 posted on 11/27/2006 7:01:33 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)

The saga of the self-loathing Jew continues...

9 posted on 11/27/2006 7:01:35 AM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)

Did the Greeks become Muslims?

How about the Albanians and Bosnians?

10 posted on 11/27/2006 7:01:40 AM PST by Tribune7

There is no evidence whatsoever of any attempt to impose Islam on the Jews.

How are the Jews doing in Saudi Arabia? Iran?

11 posted on 11/27/2006 7:02:56 AM PST by Tribune7

Do you think he'll answer that one?

12 posted on 11/27/2006 7:04:08 AM PST by jusduat (I am a strange and recurring anomaly)

This author needs to read about the siege of Constantinople - where every Christian was executed or sold into slavery...and this was typical for the expansion of islam...

13 posted on 11/27/2006 7:04:28 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)

HOLY FATHER SHOULD CALL A CRUSADE TO SAVE THE SERBS!

14 posted on 11/27/2006 7:05:02 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Rick Santorum And Newt Gingrich08!)

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15 posted on 11/27/2006 7:05:04 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

I think he's a troll who will soon be zotted.

16 posted on 11/27/2006 7:05:33 AM PST by Tribune7

Everyone has their own fantasies I guess.

17 posted on 11/27/2006 7:06:48 AM PST by sinclair (the two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity)

To: trisham; askmuslim1; All

Are you wearing a seatbelt?

One might describe this post as a suicide belt.

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19 posted on 11/27/2006 7:08:43 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Rick Santorum And Newt Gingrich08!)

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