bohm:
The west did bad things in the middle east in the 20th century. wah wah wah.
How do you treat a comment like that, bohm?
Can I change it slightly?
The muslims did bad things in NY - wah wah wah.
I guess that'll bring a storm of comment on my head.
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Cofty:
FTS - Christianity once had an army and behaved like tyrants. It has grown up since then.
Has Christianity grown up? Wasn't it a British 'Christian' army that took control of Iraq after WWI? Wasn't it that nice Christian gentleman, Winston Churchill, who for the first time in history, ordered the bombing of civilians in Iraq, during the period that the Brits took control of Iraq?
Wasn't it nice Christian gentleman from the USA, that saw the potential of a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein and helped him become dictator of Iraq, and then sued him to fight a proxy war with those wicked islamists in Iran?
When Saddam outgrew his usefulness they hung him.
Was'nt it a nice Christian gentleman named G.W. Bush who sanctioned Iran and caused the death of lots of little baby muslims? Wasn't it the same Christian gentleman who started the war with Iraq smashing the bodies of Muslim kids (collateral damage they call it- lovely name, sounds better than murder) splashing it all over world TV, just to demonstrate how much power his American empire had? His subsequent war and occupation of Iraq has directly or indirectly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousand of Muslim people.
But they are not supposed to ever feel angry, because its good Christian people that are doing it to them
Islam is still waiting for its Martin Luther.
It must not be allowed 1 inch of influence in British society.
Well, I suggest it can be argued that Islam morphed from what Muhammid envisioned into something as reasonable as say Byzantine (Christian) society. Certainly Islamic scholars were the means of preserving Hellenic thought, at a time that Europe degenerated into savagery, and the Byzantium empire was controlled by rigid Christians (mostly, anyway). But under continued attack from the west, Islam gradually deteriorated into a more radical version. So I do not think that there will be an Islamic version of Martin Luther. Anyway, wasn't Martin a bit to the right of the JWs?
As to restricting Muslim influence in Britain (or, Australia for that matter). I repeat, how do you see it can be stopped?
In both our countries, people like you and me, convert to Islam. A process not too different from you and me converting to JWism.
Muslim influence is going to grow throughout the west.