[Kenny Bunk]

Fresh Air.

[Kenny Bunk]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552311/posts

Some excellent points in this post, and also on the Vatican site, http;//www.chiesa.it

[SkyPilot]

The most irrevocable of these inequalities is that between man and woman, because the others can be overcome – the slave can be freed, the non-Muslim can convert to Islam – while woman’s inferiority is irremediable, in that it was established by God himself. In Islamic tradition, the husband enjoys an almost absolute authority over his wife: while polygamy is permitted for men, a woman may not have more than one husband, may not marry a man of another faith, can be repudiated by her husband, has no rights to the children in case of divorce, is penalized in the division of the inheritance, and from a legal standpoint her testimony is worth half as much as a man’s.

So true. With this overwhelming evidence of Islam's depravity towards women, you would think that feminists would be screaming for Islam's repudiation. But, they are not. Why?

Quite simply, feminists see Christianity as their greatest threat. There may be a myriad of reasons for this, but one of the strongest arguments is that Christians are the most vociferous critics of abortion - the sacrament of feminism.

[kellynla]

[AgThorn]

But the idea of the crusades emerged, above all, as a reaction to the measures that the Fatimid caliph Hakim bi-Amr Allah took against the Christians of Egypt and Syria.

- In 1008, al-Hakim outlawed the celebrations of Palm Sunday, and

- the following year he ordered that Christians be punished and all their property confiscated.

- In that same year of 1009, he sacked and demolished the church dedicated to Mary in Cairo, and

- did not prevent the desecration of the Christian sepulchers surrounding it, or the sacking of the city’s other churches.

- That same year saw what was certainly the most severe episode: the destruction of the Constantinian basilica of the Resurrection in Jerusalem, known as the Holy Sepulcher.

- The historical records of the time say that he had ordered “to obliterate any symbol of Christian faith, and provide for the removal of every reliquary and object of veneration.”

- The basilica was then razed, and Ibn Abi Zahir did all he could to demolish the sepulcher of Christ and any trace of it.

WHAT? Why I just saw "Kingdom of Heaven" and this says that it was the religious zealots of both sides that were the problem and that the agnostic leaders were lovy dovy supporters of all faiths (BARF). You mean this ISN'T the truth?????

How could Hollywood have left out the above listed 'facts' in this so called documentary???

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

"For the Christians, conversion was something that must be voluntary and individual, obtained primarily through preaching and example, and this is how Christianity did in fact spread during its first centuries"


try telling that to all the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition....convert or die....or also try telling that to all the native peoples in North and South America who were forced/coerced to convert. The forced conversion by Islamics against Christians were and are horrible. But please don't ignore all of history.

Luckily the main difference is that in modern times, Christians would never force a conversion today. That's something we can't say about extremist Islam even against other Muslims.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Vision]

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