[GMMAC]

PING!

[sgtbono2002]

***Of course the problem is not with Islam itself, only with how a large minority of Islam has metastasized in recent decades. ***

The author decries the media and the leadership for not recognising the real problem and then he gives the real problem an out himself.
I believe the problem IS with Islam itself. Otherwise the story is about right.

[Mack the knife]

When European Christians were destroying one another in doctrinal wars, torturing heretics and butchering infidels, Muslim civilization was the most advanced, cultural, artistic, commercial and tolerant in the world.

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There has never been a time, in the past 1200 years, that any Muslim civilization has been "tolerant".

[wildandcrazyrussian]

When European Christians were destroying one another in doctrinal wars, torturing heretics and butchering infidels, Muslim civilization was the most advanced, cultural, artistic, commercial and tolerant in the world.
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The author undercuts how own argument by this example of anti-Christian propaganda, which could be straight out of an Islamic press agency.

The truth is that Islam has ALWAYS been a source of eviil and terror, and any accomplishments found within any Islamic-ruled society have been due to the conquered Christians, Hindus, et al.

For instance, "Arabic numerals" must be referred to as "Indian numerals" to be historically accurate.

[Capt. Tom]

Yet only Muslims can rid their faith of the cancer within without a war.

The so-called cancer is the fundamentals of the faith. (Read the Koran and Hadiths for further clarification and edification on the subject.)

Muslims are not going to give up their faith to accomodate us Infidels. - tom

[Clive]

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[LibWhacker]

...can we all now please stop pretending that the problem isn't the present state of Islamic culture?

The present state? That's an insult to the hundred million people who have been slaughtered by those demons during the last 14 centuries.

It seems that even the author, who understands the problem so well, is nonetheless still wearing his politically correct blinders.