But that is the point, isn't it? Not all the wars between Muslim states have been about religion either.
Krauthammer is making the mistake of assuming that all the wars of the Islamic states have and are principally about religion. They aren't: witness the Iran-Iraq war, for example.
And on that score, it's not as though Christianity has historically been a religion of peace either. Many people in both the Americas and in Europe having died as a direct result of the Protestant/Catholic schism, for example.
I suppose the point I'm trying to make here is that claiming that a religion, or any religion, is inherently 'violent' is pushing it a little bit. You need far more evidence then Krauthammer's listed to be able to make that case.
Here's some things for you to consider while gathering your evidence:
George Bush tries repeatedly to reassure us about the “religion of peace”, but:
Why is the religion of peace directly responsible for 28 out of the 30 violent conflicts raging in the world today?
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of chattel slavery in the world today?
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of terrorism in the 20th and 21st Centuries?
Why are the practitioners of the religion of peace routinely slaughtering unarmed practitioners of every other religion wherever they can get away with it?
Why does the religion of peace call for the murder of anyone who converts from the religion of peace to another religion?
Why do so many of the believers of the religion of peace look forward to the opportunity to rape 72 virgins in heaven if they die while killing innocent women and children of other religions? Is it a god they worship, or just sex? If a god, then shouldn’t heaven have more to do with him than their libidos?
Why do the leaders of the religion of peace routinely issue fatwas (death warrants) for anybody who questions their holy book of peace and their holy prophet of peace?
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the sexual mutilation of millions of little girls and the savage oppression of women?
Why did millions of the practitioners of the religion of peace laugh, cheer and dance in the street because 3,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered by seventeen men who supposedly “hijacked” the religion of peace? And why don’t the real practitioners of the religion of peace condemn the supposed “hijackers” of their religion? Why the deafening silence? Why the smiles? Why the cheers and high fives?
Hmmmm?
Perhaps I just don’t understand this whole PEACE thing. Did the definition of the word change, or is somebody just blowing a lot of smoke?
Human civilization had better wake up soon and get as serious about its survival as the seventh-century savages of Islam are about our annihilation!
SLEEPING AMERICANS ARE EASIER TO KILL.
Do not be lulled to sleep by the Religion of Peace defenders.
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