Hello? Islam was born in violent conquest, and spread across the world within a 150 years through violent conquest. They have attacked Europe again and again, succeeding in conquering all of the Eastern Roman Empire by 1453. Pounding on the gates of Vienna repeatedly. Turned back in the 17th century only because of the economic take-off of Europe that left the Islamic world a stagnant backwater in world history. I've put a highly edited, i.e. cutting out all the torture, assassination, murder, chronology of Islamic conquest on The Dumb Ox. http://thomistic.blogspot.com/ or the direct link, http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2006/02/religion-of-peace.html Talk about news you...