I typed you a long response Allan but I goofed it up. Thanks for being reponsible in the presention of your views.
I appreciate that you are not blindly patriotic and nationalistic.
I am just going to address a few of your points from your last post.
I never said Muslims were never agressive,that would be stupid.
Certainly you can find as many examples of Muslims coexisting with other religions over vast periods of time in northern Africa,the Middle East and Asia? What about the sword and subjugation in those situations?What about the tolerance of secularism at various times. Islam is not a trained pitbull with no other recourse but vicious brutal actions in it’s bag of tricks. This is delusional thinking.It sounds like buying into the vilify the enemy propaganda.
You ask:
“If Islam was not a religion spread by the sword, how did Islam wind up in Spain, the Balkans and Central/Eastern Europe? And, if it was a religion that peacefully coexisted with its Christian and Jewish, why did Europe resist so strongly (i.e. the Spanish Reconquista) against it for so many years?”
You can find equally malevolent deeds by Christendom.I question the influence of your heritage and upbringing on your objectivity. Christendom has used much more disastrous weaponry for invasions and conquests including against obvious innocents or those who simply protest a dogma and subjugation! Now we feel it is our right to hold exclusively,if it were possible the most abominable weapons ever available which were BTW brought into existence not in response to Islam. But have been held over all nations by Christendom.
Above all I hope you do not feel these occupations are justified by the shortcomings of a religion as expressed over time or even currently.You drew me into this conversation with a statement that seemed to reflect a position like that. Those families in Iraq and Afghanistan, being blown to pieces, had nothing to do with that.We are not giving Justice to the Middle East.
I think we should not start to go in so many circles from here. The peanut gallery is starting ot chirp in. If recent history repeats itself digression looms.
If I understand teh guidelines promulgated by the blogmaster correctly, my post, for being located below Baseball Guys rediculous post might get deleted. Best wishes.
