As I mentioned in another thread, welcome to the Forum RAMS. I would make one comment in conflict with one part of your post. IMO it is the RADICAL, EXTREME factions of Islam, not all of the religion, that is the problem.
Welcome aboard.
TAM
Hello TAM and thank you for the warm welcome along with so many others. It is good here.
Please forgive me on this that follows, but at least consider. I have been following and studying Islam, for some 30 years now since I run into its tenets in my global wanderings. I have studied and read the Q'uran many times. My own copy is worn out from consulting it.
It is the most violent, hateful, despicable belief system ever devised by man. And it is anything but 'peaceful'. Over 22,000 items within this twisted tome advise murder and death to the 'infidels', not to mention the hideous suppression of anything female.
All of us: From China to the US and everyone in between, are targets of wrath under this belief system.
Excerpts:
(Koran 76:4) "Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers
chains, yokes and a blazing fire. To kill them all the day and night."
(Koran 8:12) Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with
the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the
Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the
Unbelievers and kill them: smite ye above their necks and smite all
their finger-tips off them."
(Koran 8:17) So you did not slay them, but it was Allah
Who killed them, and you did not kill when you smote (the
enemy), but it was Allah Who smote, and that He might
confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; surely
Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
(Koran 2:216) "Warfare is ordained for you, though it is
hateful unto you; but it may happen that you hate a thing
which is good for you and it may happen that you love a
thing which is bad for you and must kill. Allah knoweth, you knew not."
.........and so much more. And it is why not one nation, under Islam, has arisen up to police its own since 911. None. Why? Because there is nothing to rise up to, since they ae follwing the dictates of Allah to a 'T'.
We have been brainwashed with so much new age pap to not speak in fact about Isalm that it is a crime.
It is what it is; A murderous, hateful, anti-female, demogogery of utter insanity.
Imagine if the Methodist from Pittsburg are driving to Omaha to set off a car bomb at the Lutherans children's school (such as Islamic factions are doing in Baghdad at this very moment). We simply do not do this in the 21st century, in the rest of the non Islamic world.
Please consider.
........And there are very dark things in store for us in the near future in our Home Place that will be far outside the pale of 911........
in the name of Allah...............
Behold such.
Thank you.
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