Everybody loves Islam -- German edition

[abaris]

Obviously, the vast majority of Christians in the US are much better human beings than their ideology might suggest, something also true of the relativly few Jewish and Mormon people that I know.

Give them the power to run the nation without any opposition and you get biblical laws, a christian Iran. At least that's what their actual lawmakers and their statements lead me to believe. And to clarify, I'm not talking about the christians, but about politicised christianity. There isn't just one christianity as there isn't just one Islam. It's split into just as many schisms and sects as christianity and it's simplistic to say otherwise.

Also, the current discussion fails to adress the reason for Islam developing violent groups by the numbers. I'm led to believe that many on this board are more or less my generation. So born in the early 60ies, give or take ten years. So most of you will remember, that suicide attacks weren't known in the 70ies and early 80ies, when it came to muslim terrorism. They were mainly nationalists with socialist elements woven into their ideology. Often being in league with other leftist terror groups, such as the RAF in West Germany and often supported by the communist block. Mainly it was about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The turning point was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the uncritical US support for the insurgents, which ultimately led to Osama Bin Laden being amongst the supported. And from there the milestones are pretty clear cut. The first Intifada of 1987, the stationing of American troops in Saudi Arabia in preparation of the attack on Iraq in 1991, to the last decade with numerous invasions or attacks on Islamic countries, thereby creating enemies by the numbers which ultimately were easily recruited into the folds of radicals.