Ayoohhhh Jelata.. "Yang terhormat" cukuplah.. jangan ini 'dimuliakan'.. not very mulia lah :)

Hmm.. I can take your point about what u said.. to a degree. My comparison between Koran and Bible is more accurately a comparison between Mohammed and Jesus.
As for America Syarikat being a 'Christian Nation' "I wish"..but sadly it is infuenced by greed and desire for power on a local and international level. Its capitalistic system requires constant feeding to maintain 'good looking numbers' for share holders etc.

There are people in the USA who are daily striving to rid America of allll things God and Christian, trying to turn it into a secular country. That would be a disaster.

When resources are dwindling in the backyard, they look further afield as every empire has done.

Such is the struggle of human existence.

I view the attempt at winning Muslim hearts and minds with the same cynicism I view most things political, it always things of the bottom line. Most likely in this case it is an 'oily' bottom line.

You mention the Tao..does this mean you are a Chinese of Indonesian nationality ?

Salam sejahtera Mr Boaz, (sorry for being hyperbolic in my previous greeting).

So you realize that there is a distance between Jesus figure and the societies that seems heavily influenced by his moralities. As I believe to misterious rules to this world, I can only suggest, hypothetically, that Jesus was too perfect for ordinary human for not getting frustrated when they try to stand on His values. As final result, christian values are no more like decorations in Western world.

And we have problems either in Muslims and Western. I suggest you expand your view to many things outside religions. For example, Israelians suffer terrors in Palestine is because the reaction from people when they feel their homeland are unjustly occupied by foreigners, just like what happened to Americans in Vietnam. Islam teaching about jihad then, is just something the Palestinian pick for it.

"You mention the Tao..does this mean you are a Chinese of Indonesian nationality ?"

No, I'm a javanese. Asian share many similarities in way of life.