[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.

[watchin]

Holy war is not an invention of modern "radicals". It's an invention of Muhammed, and has been practiced pretty much continually for a thousand years.

You say you've read this propaganda piece a few times since 9/11. May I suggest you read the koran and a few books on the history of Islam? Maybe one written by a muslim, one by a Christian, and one by an "objective" rank heathen.

I appreciate your efforts at understanding and embracing muslims. I just think your being suckered.

[TightSqueeze]

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.

Not to start a fight, but just who are the Christians you speak of who are willing to pervert their faith for geopolitical or some such purely secular gain in money, prestige or power?