I chose to address one point in your post earlier (sacrifice of 150,000 retreating Iraqis) because that is a simple matter, easily addressed with data that is verifiable to the satisfaction of most.
I chose not to exhort DDZ, IG, et al on your points 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 because it is not a matter of simple explanation and agreement. They are matters of faith. I realize now that your original post was a matter of faith to you, as your defensiveness indicates. If you read the end of my last post, I have been trying to demonstrate that misunderstanding is all around.
To your point #1: You'll notice I do not use the term "muzzie" which I regard as disrespectful. I use the term "conspiracy theorist" to mean a person who theorizes about conspiracies. Whether or not they live in their mom's basement and wear a tinfoil hat is not contained in that appelation; apologies if that is what you thought I implied.
I will speak to point #5, the integrity of the Qu'ran, though as I have had unique opportunity to study that claim. Concerned about disunity, all copies of the Qu'ran were ordered destroyed by Caliph Uthmann (cited in the Sahi Bukhari, Hadith), and an authorized version was written by his staff and sent out. There were as many as 4 versions prior to that, each representing one of Mohammeds friends to whom he had spoken the Quran. Recent archaelogical work in Yemen found copies sealed inside a building that predate the purge. The work was quickly bought out and stopped. You will find that issue mentioned in open dialogue between Christians and Muslims and the leading Islamic Seminary in Cairo has traditionally avoided the discussion. Comparisons of the authenticity of the Quran vs the Bible are figs to apples; completely different traditions.
To #6, the US will continue to fail in its dealings around the world because we think everyone else wants to be like us. Being like us is something worth dying for, in my mind, so patriotism is not misplaced in defense of our way of life. But to imagine that everyone else should too is exceeding patriotism, and we fail when we do that. Id like to think my influence on two combat tours made our assistance to the local population more meaningful and more honoring of them. Humanist manifesto, right? What man is a man who does not make his world a better place. Light candles, folks; stop cursing the darkness.
A lot of your other points are truly not matters of pure fact, but rather truths mixed with various theories. Do Muslims study the Torah, the Naba''a and the Injil, sure ... but they do so with a premise that it has been corrupted by polytheists. Abram came from Ur, sure, but predates the earliest recorded use of the "arab" title by centuries. That's like calling the Pima, Arizonans. Dome of the rock, are you referring to the site of the sacrifice of Isaac? I'm not a zionist; I'm apalled at the billions we send each year to underwrite abortion in Israel. There are alot of Palestinian Christians, and Israeli Arab Christians caught in this crossfire as well. Being Christian does not mean being zionist, or even pro-Israel the nation when its in rebellion as it is today. And we are all Muslims per the Qu'ran. There is no guarantee of eternal life for anyone, period. Ultimately, God is capricious and will probably send many devout to hell, and many heathens to paradise ... that is the theology of Islam taught at their seminaries. So the practice of Islam is mostly about a better world here, and not much of the after life. Guarantees for martyrs are not-quranic, and usually stem from the Ummah, or collective wisdom of the people, or mostly from the mind of a particular Imam.
