First off, I'm not attacking Christianity, it's just what happened. Stating facts is not attacking.
It is good that you would like to remember history, however, we are in the here and now, and I just think that using centuries old history in order to say that what is going on today is justified in any way is just somehow not very genuine. I mean, sure we can certainly agree that Christianity had its dark moments, so has Islam in the past. But what we are facing is happening right now, not in some academic debate with no consequence.
The opening article, and question surrounding that article is about the 20+ percent of Americans that are now thinking Obama is a Muslim, and somehow we are off the rails into how Christians in the dark ages melded religion and government? What is that?
Secondly, I'm not defending Islam.
Kinda...In a way you are.
Do some muslims want to implement Sharia Law world wide, yes. Do most muslims want to, no.
That is debatable. Do you know 'most Muslims' personally?
And the theocracy's in the middle east are bad, but we can't do anything about them unless they pose a significant threat to us.
What? have you been reading the headlines recently? They do.
And even then we can't control their government after any such conflict.
Who said anything about control? That is a paradigm that liberals seem to always want to apply. Open, and honest democracies where the people have freedom seldom need any outside control.
IMO, we dealt with the whole "war on terror" in the wrong way. Invading countries, and nation building was not the way to go. But thats another topic.
You just went 48 pages on the dark ages, having NOTHING to do with the original OP, and now you make a hit and run statement like this, and this can't be discussed here? :lamo Yeah, ok point me to your thread on this one please.
Who I do defend though, is Muslim Americans, who aren't anything like the extremist in the middle east, and are generally good Americans.
No doubt that we have a great many Muslim Americans that are far removed from the fanaticism of the radical movements now aimed at the western societies. However, there are a share of radicals right here as well. See Red House VA. or any of the 1 in 10 mosques now under surveillance by the FBI today.
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