Opinionated2,
I do not practise what I have mentioned here, but the nature of these people is total control by the parent, leaders or Imams. They are not individuals they are tribal in their thought and behaviour. You will always have people justifying murder, ask any murderer in prision. If you had read my earlier post you would have seen my suggestion to incarcerate those with extremist ideas to educate and demonstrate what peaceful Islam is about.

How very mysterious of you, Philo.

>>Pericles, Thanks for emphasizing exactly my point. [It has never been how my Church have acted on differences of belief]. I am not a believer in the 3rd century Roman Church doctrine of the trinity, for which I would have been burnt at the stake in past days.<<

Your church, Philo? Do you mean Christianity? I'm sure you do, because you have said so... now where was it... ah yes, right here.

>>Severin, I am a Christian, I am not a Jew. I follow the teachings of Christ<<

But you say that "your church" has never acted this way on "differences of belief"

Oh, but it has, Philo, it has. And continues to this day to justify murder on the basis of "differences of belief".

"The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was among three faith groups, (Muslim, Roman Catholic, and Serbian Orthodox). The Serbian Orthodox Christian attacks on Muslims was elevated to the level of genocide."

http://www.religioustolerance.org/curr_war.htm

Furthermore, to add to the mystery of your post, you say that you yourself could have been "burnt at the stake in past days" for your beliefs.

By whom, Philo?

Who would have lit the match on you, for your heresy?

So please enlighten me. How exactly did I "emphasize" your point?

Pericles,
I see you prefer to place everyone with the similar broad identifier [i.e. Christian, Muslim] in your same little boxes. This is how you view Islam, If they claim to be Islam then according to you they are all the same. WRONG!

The chuch I attend has never been governed or associated with the Roman Church, or the English Church, or the Serbian Church, similarly different Islamic sections follow different beliefs and are governed by different heirarchy. In fact I have a personal friend in Austria welcoming and assisting displaced Muslims from war torn countries in the south [Africa etc].

The Roman Catholic Church in the 12 - 16 hundreds actively burnt heritics, of which I would have been one.

I actively spoke out against the Serbian genocide of Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pericles,
I just opened up my mail to receive this email from a friend. How do you deal with a religion of peace?

One of our Christian friends, Ali Enokido requested us to pray:
"Urgent prayer request! Please pray for churches in India. Buddhist extremists in India burned down 20 churches last night. Tonight they plan to destroy 200 churches in the province of Olisabang. They plan to kill 200 missionaries within 24 hours.

Philo

ALL VIOLENCE IS WRONG!

But I think that is a hoax email and last night was February 28 on some sites. Last night can last a very long time it seems.

http://billcork.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/buddhist-extremists-and-other-hoaxes/

With all these hoax emails I ask this ... Why don't people search these things first before spreading the false rumour?

So Philo ... you may be able to answer me... Why would you post this without checking it first?

Opinionated2,
You are right, I should have checked it first. However it came from a close friend.