To the extent post #54 implies an Islamic defeat, I merely raise the possibility of an Islamic victory.
All view points are valid these days, and I made no moral or political judgment about it's desirability or undesirability.
Perhaps a bit of exaggeration slipped in, I suppose, there might always be a captive breeding stock of infidels to do tasks deemed necessary that are nevertheless forbidden in the Koran. I suspect in this scenario the desirability of also maintaining at least one Jew around to blame all the remaining problems on would be obvious.
All view points are valid these days, and I made no moral or political judgment about it's desirability or undesirability.
Perhaps a bit of exaggeration slipped in, I suppose, there might always be a captive breeding stock of infidels to do tasks deemed necessary that are nevertheless forbidden in the Koran. I suspect in this scenario the desirability of also maintaining at least one Jew around to blame all the remaining problems on would be obvious.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
