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Originally Posted by buggyone
I noticed one thing, Lou, and that is you left Judaism out of your equation. They were around thousands of years before either Jesus or Mohammed. Lots of horrific acts by early Jews against non-believers in the Bible. Lots of horrific acts by Christians such as the Crusades and the Inquisition. Look at early Puritans in the colonial USA. Many examples of horrific acts by Muslims, Jews, and Christians (all radical at times).
For fanatical thinking, think of the Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire at the beginning of the Vietnam Conflict in protest of a government.
Remember, there is one God - not a Jewish God, not a Christian God, and not a Muslim God. As we say at my church at the end of the service, "Go in peace and spread the Good Word." Do it.
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Why do people keep getting this wrong? Muslims had taken over everything from Istanbul, to all of northern Africa, Spain, and a lot of France. The Crusades were a REACTION to Muslim aggression. The Crusades were the beating back of Islam. Oh, and it's a "Christian War" ONLY because the Pope was the one man who could unite the numerous "squabbling" countries to fight united. The Catholic church did very well in that arrangement. The kings paid dearly to keep their lands from falling into Muslim hands.