to Mr David Mathews
The Crusaders were a reaction to a continuous attack by the muslim armies, be it in Jerusalem, Sicily, Lisbon or Madrid.
The bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were never dropped on Japan in the name of Christianity, so your example is skewed.
WW2 was never about spreading Christianity or in the name of Christianity.
Other than the Crusade, which was in the name of Religion, no other systematic attacks were made in the name of Christianity. again look above for the crusade paragraph.
The atrocities committed during the colonialism in the name of religion is shameful, but don’t you think that hundreds of years of Human rights thoughts would enlight us ?
therefor today the Christian religion or Judaism are not an immediate danger to humanity as islam.
and no huge masses of Christians are willing to support or attack any other nation in the name of Christianity, neither Buddhists would attack other people neither Wiccans would do etc…only islam, the proof are around you everyday in the news, and I would not mention the crimes committed in the past centuries, while Christianity moved away from genocide, islam is trying to revive it more intensely as it was in the past, but today.
Mr David Mathews
now I don’t want to embarrass you, but you speak as if you were a victim of a Christian atrocity lately IN THE NAME OF CHRISTIANITY ?
I don’t believe you are a victim and I bet neither of a muslim one.
so how can you speak of the danger of the Christian religion.
since I lived more than half of my life with muslims (I’m not so young) in my country and the other half in the US, I can say there is more atrocities committed by muslims than by Christians or any other group be it in Lebanon or in the US.
but I on the other hand have been subjected to muslim atrocities committed in the name of islam, in my own country Lebanon, where in the 75/90 invasion of Lebanon by the ummah el islamieh with the palestinians criminals and it is going on till today, they did an unspeakable crimes against my people in my own country and all in the name of islam and their allah, like kidnapping a Christian, tying one leg to a car and the other to a different car and splitting them in half while they are still alive or dragging them behind a car while alive in the palestinians camps till they die while the palestinians are watching and eating baalawa/sweet. Does it remind of a certain woman in gaza the day after 9/11 ?
when the abu ghraib scandal hit the US news we did not see regular US citizens going in the streets and give out candies ?
we were shameful that our soldiers or leaders would allow such things.
can you see the different level of morals ?
strick societies make you do sick atrocities.
let me tell you from my experience
muslims do not like nobody except muslims that’s it that’s all, terrorism did not start after the afghan or iraq conflict, it started a long long time ago…
therefore islam is the immediate danger to a civil societies.
extremism need extreme measures
I’ll let each to his own imagination
but don’t forget
war is strategy, not charity.
