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To: zimdog
Hispañola's population was wiped out due to European disease and enslavement; don't blame Roman Catholicism, and especially Christianity for that one. Furthermore, it should be noted that the most prominent forced conversions to Christianity were by the Spanish and Portugeuse in the New World.

The Spanish and the Portugeuse.....hmmmm, wasn't Iberia under Muslim control for around half a millennium? (rhetorical). Maybe some Islamic tendencies rubbed off on them.

Back to the main topic, not all Muslims are any more of a threat to this country than any other American. The September 11th people were neither Americans nor immigrants, but rather people who overstayed their visas.

126 posted on 01/04/2007 2:06:39 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( WND, NewsMax, Townhall.com, and Drudge Report are not valid news sources.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Hispañola's population was wiped out due to European disease and enslavement;

And why were they enslaved?

don't blame Roman Catholicism, and especially Christianity for that one.

I don't. I'm just saying that the Spanish conquest of the Hispañola was carried out in the name of spreading Christianity and it resulted in the extermination of the island's native population.

Maybe some Islamic tendencies rubbed off on them.

Or maybe it was the anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish blood zeal of the (Christian) Reconquista that rubbed off on the conquistadores.

Back to the main topic, not all Muslims are any more of a threat to this country than any other American. The September 11th people were neither Americans nor immigrants, but rather people who overstayed their visas.

Yes.

144 posted on 01/04/2007 2:16:39 PM PST by zimdog
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