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Originally posted by Davros:
And Black Baron - let's be honest - in your mess with Palestine there are very few saints on either side. If anything, your conflict and the IRA conflict just go to show my point that hate begets hate, and that the brutal approach just entrenches both sets of combatants. This of coursejust puts an exclamation point behind the things I am putting forward.
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Davros, remind me again which side targets civilians delibrately to make it's cause work, which side responded to Israel's announcement to pull out of Gaza
the very next day with promises to escalate their efforts. You will never convince me that Israel isn't the victim here.
It's not a problem with radical muslims, it's a problem with the way the "prophet" lived his life and set examples, he exiled, slaughtered, and enslaved three huge Jewish populations in Medina, and told his followers to destroy them whereever and whenever they're found, the terrorists are following Mohammed's example and lifestyle, he used assassins, targetted civilians, and beheaded his rivals.
The real radical Islam is the liberal side that believes in living peacefully with others as equals, not turning "people of the book" into Dhimmis, and Hindu's, Taoists, Animalists, etc into corpses for being infidels. That's the side we need to encourage to grow, and encourage to make waves in Muslim society and cause a renaissance within their religion. But that's unlikely to happen, since Mohammed said himself, "if anyone tries to change my words, kill them." Paraphrased, but still the essence of his words.
[ 06-23-2004, 08:57 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]