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Originally Posted by livi

Stijn,

Interesting and valid point about the same evilness found in the Old Testament. Some 600-800 years ago a similar movie on Christianity would be controversial too. The same age difference that exists between the two religions prophets. Give the muslies another 600 years and they will have mellowed out to the same level Christianity works today (in ROW at least).

Livi,
For someone who generally seems to have their head on straight, I would reconsider this response. Islam is almost as old as Judaism. Christianity is much younger than both. In the days thousands of years ago when the Jewish people fought those around them including Islamists one could say that the Jewish people might be guilty of attacking individuals based solely on religion. Yet, the Jewish people no longer do that and the number of terrorist actions by Jewish people are vanishingly small (at least that I remember). Despite similar age of religions, in the recent time period, the number of terrorist activities by those of muslim faith, for either ethnic or religious reasons is huge. Likewise, Christianity has long lost the crusades with few terrorist activities. Certainly, there is no aim to "convert or die" as is promulgated by these current crop of islamists.