[muawiyah]

Thank you Mr. Mahdi. Inasmuch as I posited no such equivalency, I merely pointed out that Islam arrived in the Philippines with Moslem traders from the South before McWallace. Christianity, on the other hand, arrived at the tip of a sword the day McWallace landed! Certainly in any discussion of "tip of sword" proselytizing, it is fair to compare and contrast the methodologies if not the beliefs, eh?!

Unfortunately the poor deluded Philipinos who had already adopted Islam did not immediately gravitate to the undoubtedly superior Christianity of their conquerors.

That's why Lapu Lapu had to begin the struggle against the European invaders and why McWallace had to die.

Now, regarding TODAY, in the Philippines, it is all a result of history, and that's been just one thing after the other.

Do you have a solution? Might we, for example, figure out why the Islamist terrorists find it so alarmingly easy to disappear in the midst of the existing, but otherwise peaceful, traditional Moslem community? Or, will it be necessary for the Christians to, in the end, exterminate the Moslems and their Islamist minority?