Thanks.

Your capsule summary is utter rubbish. You cite Saladin’s compassion in recapturing Jersulem, implying this was typical during Muslim conquests. It wasn’t. Try reading the story of Mehmet II’s conquest of Constantinople in 1453, where the plundering, rape and murder went on nonstop for three days. This is a more typical account of what happened during Muslim conquests, especially during their sweep up through the Balkans in the 15th Century. And you say they were gentle with Hindus? Gimme a break. Try asking an Indian some time about the 80 million Hindus who were slaughtered over the centuries-long Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent.

Alex, you need to broaden your reading beyond works by Muslim apologists who like to portray Islam as peaceful and a “light unto the world.” It was/is neither. Your post exhibits a superficial knowledge of history, and one that has been heavily influenced by modern multiculturalist and anti-Western propaganda. Try expanding your reading beyond Islamic apologetics to include some written by its critics, especially historians that actually lived during the centuries-long Muslim assault on Europe that was finally stopped at Vienna in 1683. It’s not only the fair thing to do, and it will prevent you from making statements like you did above. A good one to start with would be “The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam” by the historian Bat Ye’or. You can buy it from Amazon. There are many others, too.

no im not muslim. im catholic and yes i have many friends who are muslims AND religous and no they dont go around preaching about how we(catholics, other christians, and jews) should all die or convert. i just understand that some people in the middle east have some resentment towards our ancestors actions. Actions which helped bring us on top while keeping the middle east down and divided(although the british mostly get blamed for this). and then once we got on top, then we start acting all “nice”, on the surface at least since we still have been meddling in the middle east, and disacknowledge that we have ever done anything wrong to them.

Do not waste your time looking for quotations and answer these questions.

This is coexistence between Jews, Christians, and Muslims, according to Muhammad:

“the Messenger of Allah . . . would say: ‘Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war. . . . When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. . . . Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. . . . If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them . . .’” (Muslim Book 19, Number 4294).

“fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) . . . ” (Qur’an 9:5).

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).

Any “genocides” committed by Europeans or Americans were not done in obedience to Christ’s commands, unlike Islam, under which every non-Muslim, apostate, woman, and little girl butchered and violated pleases Allah.

That any Christians survive under Allah’s tyranny is literally a miracle.

Today’s Dar al-Islam was once Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan, and animist. How do you think all those formerly non-Muslim lands converted? Love and good deeds? Sweet reason?

It was the sword, just as Muhammad commanded and practiced.

No one has to take anything “out-of-context” to know that Allah and his butcher Muhammad are the source and sustenance of 1400 years of hell on Earth.

As for terrorism, your genocidal, camel-urine-drinking, pedophilic “prophet” stated it plainly:

“Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been made victorious with terror’” (Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220).

So, stop lying, Jamil Abu-Jahl. Every day, more and more non-Muslims discover your “religion’s” texts, tenets, and time-lines. Your days are numbered.

To any non-Muslims still willfully-blind, suicidal, or just plain stupid enough to give a propagandist like Jamil any credence: Search the texts for yourself.

Here’s a good place to start:

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com/2004/07/allah-and-his-false-prophet-command.html

If there’s anyone out there who can find something objectionable in these absolutes, I challenge him to present it here.

The objections arise from the unsupportable premises of eternal life and divine being. Jesus’ moral teachings are well regarded – it’s the nonsense about God and eternal life that make possible the justification of acts that would otherwise clearly violate the basic morality he preached.

Humility always, friends.

Humility is great – but every prophet is a failure in this regard.

@74. myth buster:

belief in an afterlife is the only thing that can give one’s life or death any real meaning

This is exactly the problem. There are far too many people in the world who believe this BS. The only meaning your life will have is the one that you give it on earth.

Peace.

DS