[agere_contra]

Islam has not always and everywhere been violent...Indonesia and East Africa are two examples.

Any cult that will kill you if you leave it is manifestly a violent cult.

With respect, I don't believe that the examples of Indonesia and East Africa as examples of benign Islam stand up to scrutiny. The East Timorese have certainly had trouble enough with their Islamic neighbour. I'm not up on 19th Century East Africa, but the Mahdi's army that sacked Khartoum and was later destroyed by the British doesn't support a picture of peaceful East African Islam

Islam is pretty much the same fanatic deathcult everywhere. Nor should we allow that its remotely Israel's fault that the hardliners are gaining ground - death and jihad are hard-wired into the Quran and ahadith.

[goldstategop]

Islam has rendered powerless non-Muslim communities it conquered and try to destroy them. Those with a memory of Muslim subjugation know the danger they represent and try to resist them fiercely. Just ask the Serbs.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus