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Originally posted by johnny:
I've read more history than you'll ever know,
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Gosh, You think?
I mean, I have also read a huge amount of history books,
But unfortunately I tend to forget much of it
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Originally posted by johnny:
but that won't change my point of view, and stop bringing up how civilized the middle east was in those days. Those days are long gone, and Islam turned THEM into the dark ages now. We,ve stopped the crusades hundreds of years ago, but
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Islam Is a relegion of Peace, love and justice etc in the same way that chrisianity is.
If I beat someone with a stick and say god made me do it, It no more makes christianity responsible than is An Alaskan Malamute in Texas is.
If Osama Bin laden didn't have Islam he'd have something else.
For the greater good...
That can be just as powerful a drive as religion in causeing evil.
Look at the soviet union.
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Originally posted by johnny:
they're still pissed off about that. Osama bin Laden compares himself to
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A whole Bunch of people invaded your lands claiming that their religion was the only true religion. They then killed lots of people, They Massacred over 40,000 women and children when they took Jerusalem,
Would you be pissed of for a long time if that happened?
In northern Island catholics & protestents are still at each others throats may I remind you.
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Originally posted by johnny:
Saladin, i think it's HIM who didn't read his historybooks. But then again, middle east history books aren't all that trustworthy. History lessons in Iraq for instance, teach us that Iraq won the Gulfwar. I must have been on another planet at that time, cause on the planet i was on, Iraq got his behind kicked... big time ![/QB]
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All Totaliterian states do the same, Iraq is a secular dictatorship,
Saddams evil has nothing to do with Islam and everythign to do with his desire to keep his grasp on power.
Japan in the "dark valley" Changed history in textbooks and so did the Soviet union etc.
HTH
HAND.