Replies

I think Bush is correct. Islam is a religion of peace, provided you have any amount of reason.

One can take a fairy tales and turn them into an ideology of destruction and terror. Demeaning Mohammed or his followers for September 11, 2001, is stupid foolishness and the work of those driven by hate themselves.

All religions have been known to commit excess in God's name. However, that does not mean that the religion, its founders, or God is to blame.

I think Bush is correct. Islam is a religion of peace, provided you have any amount of ~~reason.~~

Lobotomy

Demeaning Mohammed or his followers for September 11, 2001, is stupid foolishness and the work of those driven by hate themselves.

If I direct people in my employ to go commit murder I am responsible for that murder. If I direct people who are strongly under my influence to go and commit murder then I am responsible for that murder.

mohammed commands his followers to murder innocent people. He is responsible for those murders.

By its own holy book mohammedism is exposed as a cult and an inherently evil organization.

Islam is the enemy

God (Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus) Save America (Please)

The logic of parceling out blame through some false distinction between Islamists and the religion of the Koran, or at least how militants interpret it, is an exercise in futility.

The raging Clerics espousing Wahabi branded hatred against the West and modernity disprove your argument of cultural relativity... by their own admission, if you are willing to listen, their's is a self-described religion of death and destruction toward non-observers.

As much as I would like to agree with you that all religions are peaceful and only subject to occasional human foolishness, I cannot.

Whenever Bush or some other idiotic person in his naive Administration issues some sugar coated, politically correct basura about Islam being civil and peaceful in this day and age when even the Europeans are starting to wake up and its all over the Northeast Asian press in clear language as a matter-of-fact (that this indeed is a backward, uncivil, violent word plague), we on Free Republic ought to tag the thread as

"TROPCRAP ALERT"i.e., (T)he (R)eligion (O)f (P)eace (Crap)

If I might add to your post number 3, if you think about it, by festering HATE we are playing right into the hands of the militant extremist Islamists.

The dissention and mistrust is going to cause a friction like never seen before. I happen to feel this is going exactly as a certain "sect/faction" would like.

This way they get rid of those Muslims who they consider "infidels".. and the Christians and Jews too.

We think there are already a TON of radical extremists in the US right now and that our country needs to, and is doing something about it. One only has to look to see that we are closing in on a lot of groups who laundered money for terrorists. But if we allow this type of hate to grow, hate for an entire religion, we will never have the kind of peace and security we once knew as a nation.

We absolutely HAVE to route out terrorists.. but we also have to be extremely careful to NOT play into their hands.

The mullahs must who state that Islam is a religion of peace must start speaking out (The ones that have, are being ignored by the liberal media).. the people who are Muslim and believe in peace must speak out against those who would destroy any other religion just because they don't believe the way they do.

I think as a nation we must be cautious.. know our enemies,.. but at the same time be cognizant enough to realize that by perpetuation HATE, we will self destruct,..and I happen to think that just may be part of a grander scheme by our enemies.

Get real! What a fool you are. Pick up a Koran and READ it. These extreme Islamist are doing EXACTLY what it says. The "moderate" ones are simply spiritully lazy and frankly, don't read the Koran. It's the same as some folks claiming to be a Christian but have no clue on what that means or what the teachings of Jesus are.

No where in time has this religion been one of peace and love. NEVER! If you believe this is true, give me an example. You'll find there are NONE. Prior to the Crusades lead by the Catholic Pope, most of europe was muslim. They forced conversion and why the Crusades happened. It's a religion of intolerance and killing of those who will not convert to their evil religion.

Demeaning Mohammed or his followers

You mean calling him a pedophile and a terrorist? Well, wasn't he?

I think Bush is correct. Islam is a religion of peace, provided you have any amount of reason.
One can take a fairy tales and turn them into an ideology of destruction and terror. Demeaning Mohammed or his followers for September 11, 2001, is stupid foolishness and the work of those driven by hate themselves.

All religions have been known to commit excess in God's name. However, that does not mean that the religion, its founders, or God is to blame.

And I would surmise that you are a rather transparent apologist for the religion that has bred more terror in the past 20 years than all other religions combined -- with the possible exception of the "Communist" religion.