Suffice to say that the people (and behaviors) you see in a war zone are not indicative of people at large. This is true of people in general.
My friends who have spent significant time in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Lebanon have a distinctly different view of the Muslims they have met in those countries, so perhaps it is a function of who is doing the meeting and under what circumstances. Judah On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having been in Iraq three times and Afghanistan once and have read the Quran, > I completely agree with Tim. He has been downrange a few times as well so we > do speak from first hand experience. > > I also agree with you Maureen but Tim and I are right. And the majority of > the Muslim's I have met overseas espouse many of the so called stereotypes > that Westerners have of them. > > Now the majority of the Muslim's I have met in the USA are more civilized but > you do read or hear of the odd case of a father performing an honor killing > and such. > > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Slavery = every western country for hundreds of years - using the Bible to >> justify it. >> Pedophilia = Catholic priests allowing other Catholic priests to knowingly >> abuse children for decades, perhaps hundreds of years. >> Rape = Every army that has ever existed. >> Murder = Seen the murder rates in Chicago lately? >> Spread the word by the sword = Every imperialist government on earth >> >> Some Muslims practice the above as well. Most don't. >> >> You are too good a man to allow yourself to sink into that level of bigotry. >> >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:17 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Yup, I sure do. >>> >>> If you self identify as a muslim you are claiming everything that goes with >>> it. Slavery, rape, pedophilia, murder. That is at the root what Islam >>> is. Submission, it's what the word means. Spread the word by the sword >>> and kill or breed out the infidel. >>> >>> Anyone saying otherwise doesn't know what's in the quran and doesn't know >>> about the life of Mohammed, or is denying these things. >>> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:354889 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
