[jimkress]

Muslims are astounded and dumbfounded when they read notable scholars, specialists and, most painful of all, clergy, portraying Islam and Muslims as the enemies of Christ.

LOL! Does the phrase "The Quran or the Sword" ring a bell?!

My wife's family fled Hungary in the 1950's. Hungarians still have vivid memories of the terror, rape, murder, and slavery inflicted upon Hungarian Christians, Jews and any other nonMuslim group by Ottoman Muslims.

[Askel5]

Hey ... I understand entirely both your laughing and your sounding a note of true remembrance ... the sort on which are based many justifiable apprehensions and studied ill will.

At the same time, I still believe we're all only human. Just as with the Christians, there will always be those Muslims who are willing to pervert their faith for geopolitical or some such purely secular gain in money, prestige or power.

I'm not an ecumenist in that I see us compromising. (Just like I don't tend to compromise on any black and white issue ... such as human life.) Still, I think there's room for Jews, Christians and Muslims to affirm what they've got in common and thereby expose the charlatans who wage "Holy War" for geopolitical purposes as the evil folks they are.