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If you will refer back to the previous thread you mention in #14, you will see that I do not agree with or approve of radical Islam and actually have a pretty good understanding of the ways in which "all religions are (NOT) the same."

My big objection has always been to those (like you appeared to be in that post) who criticize practices in other religions/cultures while simultaneously ignoring the evil practices committed by Western/Christian cultures. It's not the criticism I object to, it's the hypocrisy.

If you take Communism, Socialism and Fascism as bastard offspring of Western Civilization (which they are), our culture killed far more people (including innocent civilians) in just the 20th century than the Moslems have managed to in well over a thousand years.

You say you resent being lumped in with these groups? I don't blame you. How do you think many of the almost one billion Moslems feel about being lumped in with the killers?

I agree with you that the moderates are scared of the radicals. We dealt with the Nazi and Commie crazies in our culture, it's time they dealt similarly with the crazies in their's. I'm sure there are a number of Americans willing to support them in this.

I have been known to criticize quite a few Christians too, but in the previous post, I was comparing the texts and teachings, not the people. There’s a big difference. You can't blame Communism, Socialism and every other perversion of Western Civilization on Christian teachings. Most abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, recognized that slaveowners were not followers of the Bible. Archaeological evidence of graveyards in Phrygia as per "The New Archaeological Discoveries" by Camden M. Cobern, copyright 1917, showed slaves were given freedom and buried as brothers in contrast to non-Christians where slaves were put to death on a whim. (one woman had her slave/lover killed because she said he looked at another woman).

You and I are just 180 degrees apart because I am very outspoken in my views that JudeoChristianity righteously practiced is the only religion that really teaches equality and is one of the few religions that promotes peaceful coexistence with other religions.

About the Moslems, as I stated on another reply linked above, my grandfather's name was Amin Salim Zin-al-Din, born into a Syrian Moslem family. He named my mother Fatima. He moved to Hillsdale, MI in the early 1900's and became a proud American. He had a Syrian restaurant in D.C. He used to criticize the society he left. If he were still alive, he would be lumped in with the few Moslems who did this, but he wouldn't quit criticizing the violent teachings of the Moslem leaders. So I appreciate your well thought replies anyway.