[LordBridey]

The Greeks, under the boot of the Ottoman Turks, couldn't even speak Greek for years in public, and their religion was carried on in secret. It is a testimony to their faith, and I apologize to you for mis-reading your take on the oppressed, but complimenting the oppressed is no reason to give gutter-trash Muslims a pass on their approach to others. Islam is dangerous, and the fact that Islam allows some of its enemies to live, on their terms, is no testimony of virtue.

Yes, people's spiritual values and practices have a way being kept alive under the most oppressive conditions. There is an underground Catholic church in Communist China and under the Nazi's the man who would later become the pope was a secret seminarian. The list of these kind of examples is endless and not confined to one part of the world or one faith. I imagine the Muslims that would somehow escape your proposed pogroms would continue their worship in secret.

[farmer18th]

The list of these kind of examples is endless and not confined to one part of the world or one faith. I imagine the Muslims that would somehow escape your proposed pogroms would continue their worship in secret.

Let's see if I make your thinking a little more linear:

Literally thousands of violent acts of terror against innocent civilians have taken place, since 9/11, where onlookers heard the words "Allahu Akbar" shortly before the glass began shattering and the blood began spraying. Many of these acts of terror had the fingerprints of official Muslim states and others merely had their blessing--along with cheering in the streets and sermons of praise by Islamic religious leaders. Serious scholars are belittled for connecting those events to their root source--Islam. Even our new "western-style" Iraqi leaders can't quite bring themselves to denouce the Hezbollah terrorists, lobbing shells into Israel..and you call a desire to isolate Islam, and its adherents, from the civilized west, a "pogram."

That sounds very much like cowardice.