[jpsb]

"let's see, there were the crusades, the inquistion, chelministky massacres...

You got a problem with the crusades? The crusades were very neccessary to defend the Christain West from an aggressive and expansionist Islam. Almost all the Christain Eastern Roman Empire fell to Muslem swords. What was once Eurpoean/Christain Middle easst is now Arab/Turk Islam. Might have happen to Western Europe too, had not the Crusades slowed down the Islamic tide.

[RobbyS]

They should look at a Map of the Ottoman Empire at its peak. It included all of Trajan's Rome, except that part west of Hungary. That land was once all Christian. Today only the Balkans remains Christian and even they have a large Muslim population. The religion is expansionist, and they will do it with the sword. Look at what the Moguls did in India, to the Hindus.