what is hard to understand is the excuses that are made for islam.actions speak louder than words. actions have spoken. let those that perpatrated these crimes against humanity accept responsibility.It's not me you or the government. it is islam. read their manifisto before any more of this blaming everybody else is stated then explain what good is. hindu,buddist, catholic,christian,athiest,satanist,pegan, just to name a few do not strap on bombs and kill others because they do not believe. Would you make the same excuses for the nazi war machine that murded so many non believers.
Troy
That's a load of bull, troyboy. Do you remember what happened in Ireland? Catholics killing protestants. Civil war in England; Protestants killing Catholics. Spanish Inquisition; Catholics killing everyone else. Lets not forget the Crusades as well.
The Abrahamic religions, by their very nature, are expansionist and violent. They always have been, and they likely always will be. Look at you lot, calling for the wholesale slaughter of a fifth of the world's population simply because they happen to belong to the same faith as some terrorists. You think the fact that you do your killing with airplanes makes you morally pure?
Billy, a warzone is a miserable place to take in the good points of a culture, and gulf war 1 was extremely bad in that you never got to spend time with the people you liberated. The Saudis didn't want you there, and I'd be willing to bet that the only Iraqis you met were bloated corpses or desperate conscripts with their hands in the air.
My friends in the current Iraq war have developed deep bonds with the Iraqi people, the Iraqi soldiers that are currently fighting with them are a tougher and more reliable bunch than they were 2 years ago, and are well liked by our guys. Our guys especially like the children in Iraq, and give to them generously.
Why do you think that our guys believe so deeply in our mission over there? If they saw the Iraqis as barbarous zealots, they wouldn't be so keen to sacrifice themselves for the well-being of the Iraqis, now would they?
If all Muslims were blood-thirsty America-haters, wouldn't Iraq be a hellish and insane no-man's-land with millions of Muslims coming from all over the world for the privilege of throwing themselves into the teeth of American machine gun nests?
The simple fact is, Muslims are just like Christians. Some are hard-core zealots who will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of spreading the faith. Some of them LOVE America and want to live here or help our troops in any way they can. Most of them simply want to be left alone to live their lives.
Despite the best efforts of insane old xenophobes like Billy, Powderman, Shootall, etc, not even our soldiers in the field lump all Muslims into one category. If they did, my friends in Iraq wouldn't be asking me to send them toys, crayons, and kid's clothing and shoes.