[marktwain]

Thanks for your input. The truth is important. I have often thought that an essay comparing the jihadis to the religion of Thugee would be worthwhile. Both teach that others are fair game to be murdered, and the British did a very good job of eradicating them, though they had been a scourge in India for centuries.

[Sherman Logan]

Thugee is an odd one. It was more a hereditary thing than a religion to which one could convert.

Despite it being based on worship of Kali, a Hindu goddess, there were Muslim Thugs.

[Cronos]

The thuggee philosophy is quite different from Islam. Thug's were similar to the Aztec religion -- the Devi (goddess) needs blood.

islam preaches more on "convert the infidel"