Submitted by Open your mind, Aug 15, 2007 10:13

Here's some really delicious food for thought:

There is an adage that people in glass houses should not throw stones at others. Islam is a world religion followed by a fifth of humanity. From the 198 UN member states at least 54, which is one quarter of the world nations - are Muslim States. Islam is also a 1400 year old religion which has been followed by some of the greatest minds of mankind. But not withstanding let us look at the recent record of United States and Christianity. Amongst the founding fathers of USA was George Washington, a man who killed defenceless Red Indian ( such as they were called ) prisoners of war -in cold blood in 1776 while serving as an officer- a war crime by any standards. In the late 40's it is the only country in the world and to date, the only country to have used nuclear weapons against two heavily civilian populated cities populated- when there was clearly no need since Japan was on the point of surrendering anyway. Subsquently the US glorified itself by dropping seven times more bombs on a small insignificant country called Vietnam then the entire arsenal of bombs used in the Second World War.

Recently it has attacked a Muslim country ( which had been its ally ) called Iraq killing 855,000 civilians according to the highly acclaimed peer reviewed medical journal called Lancet of the UK. That too a country which had nothing to do with the events of 9/11. The US is currently led by junta of supposedly God fearing Christians who led their country to war with Iraq on lies and deception of the so called " weapons of mass destruction". So on this basis the world must seek to deal with the US on the grounds that it was founded by war criminal and the genocidal behaviour of the Americans has not stopped. Notwithstanding might I remind the author of this book on the Prophet of Islam that there were four of the greatest genocidal monsters of the 20th century of whom three were Christian, namely 1) Benito Mussolini ( The Roman Catholic fascist dictator of Italy) 2 )Adolph Hitler, an Austrian born Calvinist Christian responsible totally for the Jewish holocaust and who used the Crucifiction of Jesus 2000 years back as an excuse to commit genocide of 6 million Jews never mind the 50 or so million who perished in the second world war. Then there is the former Priest of the Christian Orthodox denomination of the Georgian Church who eventually went by the name Josef Stalin and who also was responsible for the genocide of millions. Might I remind you that none of these monsters were Muslims and in the entire history of Islam with all the wars for the last 14 centuries would not produce a figure of genocide which would rival the humanity liquidated by these Christian monsters individually or collectively. Might I also remind the author that when Catholic monarchs took over Spain, the Jews and the Muslims were given a choice to either convert or go into exile. The Jews chose to go into exile with the Moors to modern day Morocco. But these are inconvenient facts I guess.

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