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Both of you guys talk about things just living in America where M's are <1% of the population. I've lived in Bahrain, Oman, France, the UK, Singapore and have visited on long duration India, Lebanon, Malaysia, Egypt and even Iran (just before the revolution). Yes, most of the people I met were nice, if not all -- oh, wait a minute, all the Sauds I've met were rotters and pretty much hated even by other Arabs. Yes, the ones I met were all disinterested in their religion. However, they did get uncomfortable if you ask them their views about someone converting fromIslm who would be killed in their countries and many had relatives who got sucked into a deeper reading of the K and became, as you call it "radical".

That is the key difference -- a person taking deeper interest in C is a scholar and content to reflect on God while that in I is more interested in wreaking mayhem against those who disobey A by not worhipping him. A mystic in Christianity is a monk or a hermit, while that in I is considered a heretic (like Dervishes, many Sufis etc).

I know Holly has said she's read the K, but have both of you really read it in it's entirety? Have you lived or visited anislamic country? Do so and it would be enlightening. There is nothing wrong with the people, but the philosophy spreads insiduously.

Like my point about neo-Nazis -- Adolf Eichman was supposedly a nice, soft-spoken, well-mannered chap: even to his Mossad captors. But his philosophy was barbaric.