First, I apologize in advance if this email jumps around. My thoughts jump around sometimes. LOL
The big difference here is that while your average Christians who adhere to the bible, mainly adhere to the parts that allow someone to live a Godly, moral life, not a life of violence. Over here, one of the responsibilities of ALL Muslims, according to the Prophet Mohamed is that they are supposed to actively convert non-Muslims to Islam. According to Mohamed, we are all infidels. We are not even allowed to walk into their mosques because we are not Muslim. But, in the US, a Muslim, Jew, Catholic, Mormon, Hindu, Bhuddist or even an Atheist can walk into any church in the US, regardless of denomination or level of belief, and usually be welcome with open arms. Also, the least violent areas of this country are the Kurdish and Christian areas here in the North. The Sunni and Shiah areas are still the most violent. And over here, there is open religious discrimination of the three major religious factions here. Sure in the US, a Baptist will say they are better than a Catholic for whatever reason, but in typically we are not killing each other over this. Over here, they are. I have had the opportunity to speak with many Iraqi's of Christian, Kurdish and Muslim faith, and again the most violent ones are the Muslims. Christian and Kurdish areas are so safe now, you can almost walk around the villages without protective gear - almost. Here in Mosul, it is totally different. We do not like to even stop our truck for longer than about 10-15 minutes for fear of a VBID. I have not met a single Muslim who has not at some point in our conversation not talk of violence in some way. I have even heard Muslim's say that they wanted to kill so and so just because they jumped in front of them at the gas pump. Really? Kill someone over some gas? Wow. Anyway, yeah, Christians have done some heinous things in the past all in the name of God, but these people still do heinous things in the name of Allah. These people are so honor bound, they will kill to protect that honor. Hence the stoning of a daughter who participated in a sexual relationship before she was married. Oh, the the really funny part is, although the man is also supposed to be stoned, generally he will not. The way they see it, the woman tempted him. Shw should not have done that because men here are not responsible for controlling their urges. And the hypocrisies here are almost laughable. One of my terps was telling me how he would have sex while in University in Baghdad. When I asked about how they can get away with that when the woman is supposed to be a virgin when she is married, he said they have anal. So apparently, doing someone in the ass before they are married be OK here. To them it is not really having sex (insert Clinton joke here). But, again, if someone her her family finds out about this, she is done. So yeah, I personally think it is far to say that in general, Islam is a violent religion. Bruce Maureen wrote: > > It's not Minnesota but > :http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=964 > > And read a bit of history. Spanish Inquisition, Crusades, Cortez, Hitler > > Or read the Bible: God sending the bears to eat the children who > laughed at his prophet is a bit of an act of violence I would say. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288527 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
