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Nah - Christian Terrorism doesn't count.

Kim...

And of course, all people who call themselves "Christian" are perfect and no Christian _ever_ killed anyone, did they?

When Christianity was around 1400 years old, what were Christians doing? Oh yeah - crusades, inquisitions, etc.
Killing Muslims and other Christians alike. Because the masses were uneducated and the leaders were idiots.

Islam is currently about 1400 years old. And what do they have? Uneducated masses (in much LARGER populations than the Christian Middle Ages), Loony leaders (with much more money and power and weapons than in the Christian Middle Ages) AND an enemy that appears to have all the money, all the power, all the influence and all the ignorance of culture and history that's probably necessary to have in order to at least be a fair and generous Single World Superpower.

So really, I don't think it's any surprise the world is where it is today.

Kim...

And even if Muslims decided to try to use the media to stand up and say "violence is wrong", "terrorism is wrong", etc, do you really think the media will either broadcast them, or report exactly what they said without manipulation?

From what we can see out here, the US media is almost entirely biased - your average Joe Shmuck out in the suburbs (or trailer park) has No Idea of what's really going on in the world because the media is totally one-sided.

DO you honestly think that if Muslims got up to say anything that the media _wouldn't_ twist their words?

The media are bent and twisted - criminally so, in my not at all humble opinion - no wonder Muslims want nothing to do with it.

Kim...

Please don't tar _all_ Saudi men. I know a few (no, I have not met many, admittedly)who are kind and comparatively progressive. Of course, they now live _here_ and not there, so they bring down the numbers of kind men over there.

And it's not Islam that makes these men so cruel to their women. It's the mis-interpretation of their religion and their insanely misogynistic culture that encourages them.

The Q'ran states that "paradise is under the feet of the mother" and time and time again states that women must be respected, protected, loved and cared for.

But people are so stupid, so under-educated and so powerless that all some of them can do is beat up weaker ones.

It's the culture that needs to be changed - Saudi Arabia is not really a properly Islamic country - if it _were_ it would not have a royal family (and do we know who installed Saudi's royal family last century?), and its women would not be caged, beaten and would be allowed to take part in public life. They'd be allowed to drive cars, too.

Some of the Prophet Mohammed's wives were business women, they were teachers and they took part in society as respected, loved people.

The Saudis (and others) need to try to remember this.

Kim...