My thanks to paulycy for encouraging me to post yet another of my epistles to FR on a public thread:
Countering Islamophobia claims: (Vanity)
What Eagle Lurks in the Heart of Me | 16 August 2010 | Combat_Boots
Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 4:21:57 PM by combat_boots
I have studied Islam for decades and almost became a Muslim. I have read the original texts, jurisprudence, historians, and scholars.
Read. Orientalists like Bernard Lewis. Modernists like Samuel Huntington. Natives like Fareed Zakaria or other, recent books. Check sites like Islaminaction’s, Pam Geller’s, Richard Poe, Steve Emerson’s, or “TelltheChildrenthe Truth.” Learn Taqiyya. Find the 5 tenets and their counterparts in Western culture. Refute. Rebutt. Return arguments. And, decide whether you will give all, because, in reality, you may well have to.
Specific questions to fire back with, given here as a starting point for your own 10-point plan:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2571689/posts