Quote: Islam may possibly have a long way to go to satisfy the more Christian West's ideas about religion but it is far from the barbaric institution so often, and erroneously, portrayed. Christians have no automatic claim to saintliness, in the past or even today, and I can't help but wonder why so many of them, and atheists who profess to a humanitarian morality, are so ready to be so blindly prejudiced against Muslims, it appears to fly in the face of all their so-called ethics.
Surely we don't still blame people merely by association? Yet that is exactly what is happening, I'm sorry to say.
It is because we have talked to Muslims about their views.
Quote:That’s right, FD. Invading Afghanistan and Iraq certainly showed Al Qaida who’s boss.
I think so. The Taliban and Al Quaida are now struggling to fight against democracy in their own countries. Muslims themselves are fighting back. And you are cheering for the bad guys.
Quote:Correctomundo. Terrorism is a shock tactic. It’s about bringing a society to its knees by creating fear and panic.
Can you imagine an attack that kills 3000 people that would not achieve this?