[FreedomSurge]

"Within a century Islam was the dominant religion in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and even European Spain"

How did this happen? Were teams of two young muslims in ties and clean white shirts sent out on camels to various countries? Have you heard the word of Allah today?

Btw you should repost this it didn't get the play it deserved.

[GOPcapitalist]

LOL! The point of the sword runs fast and furious...but never is it without it's ironies. The islamic sword that pushed out reasoned theological discourse in favor of blind literalist faith pushed Europe into a cultural reawakening. The same sword that crushed the walls of Constantinople gave Europe its famous rennaissance.

In more ways than one, the part of islamic culture that so often denounces the west is itself partially responsible through its actions for that same west's being what it is today, and that is the ultimate irony.

[lodwick]

I don't want to understand - I want to carpet bomb!