The error in that statement is that the minority are the evil and powerful, the vast majority of Muslims are basically ordinary people just trying to make their way through life.
What's truly irrational is to paint over a billion people with the brush handed to you by extremists such as bin Laden. You would certainly cry foul if someone were to ever judge all Christians based on the beliefs and actions of Matt Hale's Church of the Creator. Even better, I'm certain that if a Muslim called Christianity a barbaric religion of baby killers whose clergy rapes little boys, you would protest at the unfair generalization of billions of Christians, based on the actions of abortionists, and pedophiles. Yet you have no problem judging all Muslims in the world by the actions of Wahabbi extremists.
The rest of your post is a crude generalization of what most people believe Islam stands for. Let it suffice to say that when challenged last night, no one could come up with the infamous passage of the Qu'ran that allows Muslims to lie to "infidels".
This is not a war of religions, that's what bin Laden and his ilk are trying to start, and by buying into the generalizations that fly around this forum, you are carrying water for the man who has orchestrated the murder of thousands of Americans, including Muslims.
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Spin it in any way you choose.Call it a war declared by extremist Islamics, a war of ideology, a war of cultures.
Define it down to any level that makes you "feel" comfortable.It still will not change the nature of this war.It is a religious war.An organised religion has openly declared war on this country.That same group has been attacking us for decades, and on 9/11/2001, they openly attacked this nation in such a vile manner that the government of the USA could no longer ignore them or continue to pretend our enemy is an isolated group of crazed criminals.
You attempt to define the fractured sects of all other spiritual belief systems present in the world as theologically equivelant to Islam.
I am not a fan of any organised religion.I do not believe Islam is a "religion" as the term is understood in western society.
Islam is not a spiritual belief system, but more a designation of ideology, in the same way as democracy, socialism, communism etc are defined.
To say most Muslims are not extremists equate to saying some nations are only a little bit communist.
Who is actually carrying Bin Ladens water Luis?