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Originally posted by Chewbacca: [QB] Like President Bush said: terrorists have hijacked a religion.

You're kidding me right? You're quoting George Bush as an expert on a foreign culture????

A truer statement would be "Islam has hijacked terrorism". The people were Muslims before they were terrorists. Terrorism is a means, not an end. Islam provides the ends, terrorism the means. Unless you're proposing that there is a generalised personality type that is predisposed towards terrorism throughout history. A global organisation that decided to use Islam to achieve it's ends.

Hardly.

Certain extremist Christians are at odds with the American people, American values, American attitudes, and American religious freedom but doesn't mean they all are. Same logic applies to Islam.

Interesting, except and extremist fundamentalist Christian would be someone who lives not unlike say Ghandi or some other extreme Pacifistic, possession avoiding person. Following in the path of Jesus to the extreme would involve dying for other people. A Muslim fundamentalist following in the exact path of Mohammad would raze cities and kill women and children.

The difference is in the ideology.

Casting Muslims with a broad brush and painting Islam on the whole as at "war" with America is nothing more than a sensational generalization. There is no "what then".

I asked a hypothetical question. What would you do if Islam WAS at war with America? What then? There is no brush stroke. It's a hypothetical.

Of course if extremists like this General use there power to wage holy war and demonize the "whole" of Islam for some of it's self- proclaimed "parts" then we may very well have a war with Islam. For Islam would have no choice but to defend itself from perceived "Christian agression".

Again, I said "at war with America" not "at war with Christianity."

Islam is of course "At war with Christianity" but the battlefield is in the hearts and minds of humans, not cities or armies. If a thing conflicts with a thing, it is at war. Islam and Christianity cannot both reside in the same place - a persons mind - so they are at war with each other.

I however, asked what would you do if Islam was at war with AMERICA. If it's values, ideal, aims and objectives directly coaligned with the destruction of your country.

What would you do then?