Addi, I retract what I said, and apologize to you for making a remark without the proper investigation of your past posts. There were others that decried the event, but no one can know just how serious they were when they said it. I misread you post to say that you did not agree with those like the President of Egypt, or the King of Jordan. As you have pointed out in your previous posts, I spoke too soon.
The thing, with all due respect, that bothers me about Islam, is something that history throughout the ages has taught us. I know that there are many peaceful, friendly, and progressive, Muslims in the world, and I have known quite a few in America. Those in America are a bit insulated from the events, and pressures, of their home lands, but those that live in those lands will, probably, suffer through something that they had not intended. In history, the unarmed, peaceful, populations of a particular nation, ethic area, or religion, have been over powered by the militant, armed, groups of that society, even though the militants are in the minority. Ancient Greece was controlled by who won the wars between Sparta, and Athens, until Alexander came out of Macedonia, and defeated them all. Ancient Rome was controlled by the Senator, or General, that could raise the strongest army and declare himself Caesar. I would dare say, that most of the German population in the mid 1930s were peace loving, but one madman named Hitler, and a few followers, took total control of the nation, and many of those peace loving people were forced to die in a war they did not believe in. Look how easily Khadafi took over Libya, Saddam Hussein took over Iraq, the radical Ayatollahs took control of Iran, and Osama Bin Laden took control of Afghanistan. If this continues to happen, the peaceful people of Islam do not have a chance to withstand the onslaught of vicious, and armed, militants intent on controlling every Islamic nation. I believe that you would agree that this would create havoc in the world, and cause from thousands, to millions, to die. It is not the peace loving people in any society, ethnic group, or religion, that we must fear, but the fanatics in any group. |
