I would urge Justin La Plante and anyone else interested in learning further about the roots of Islamic faith to check out a new video released last week, "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" by Robert Spencer.

http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/

Also worth checking out is the book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam" by Robert Spencer.

There's a lot of people out there who want to surgar-coat reality. These terrorists aren't playing around and their being of the Islamic faith is no accident. What you don't know can kill you.

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Originally posted by French Toast:
I would urge Justin La Plante and anyone else interested in learning further about the roots of Islamic faith to check out a new video released last week, "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" by Robert Spencer.

http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/

Also worth checking out is the book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam" by Robert Spencer.

There's a lot of people out there who want to surgar-coat reality. These terrorists aren't playing around and their being of the Islamic faith is no accident. What you don't know can kill you.

Being too liberal and naive can be dangerous. Radical Islam will chew you up and spit you out. Don't be afraid to speak out AGAINST ANYTHING that your gut feeling know is wrong.

“I'm open to the idea, Justin, that not all Muslims are behind the extremist attacks on our country but I'm still leery of any religion that lends itself so readily to suicide bombers who seek to kill multitudes of innocents with the promise of 72 virgins waiting for them in 'heaven'.”
-French toast

If you and any of your sources actually knew anything about Islam you would know that Suicide bombing is not something prescribed ANYWHERE in the Koran and the 72 virgins myth is yet another facet of sects that try to call themselves “Islamic”.
They still make up a very rare minority of the Muslim population world wide.
Generalizing in this paranoid manner is very illogical.
You are giving what you most fear, exactly what it wants.
If you were really open to any ideas then you would be open to checking you’re sources instead of buying tabloid by Nimrods like Spencer.

This has nothing to do with liberals or political sides either.
It is simple logic. People always wonder why anyone would hate them and often times they make more out of it then the simple truth.
There are groups of insane people in the world (believe it or not). Especially in 3rd world countries where life is not so good and there are NO answers for anyone but the answers handed to them. Islam was only the most common answer so the insane people used the word to distort the truth.
9/11 happened because we were a sleep at the wheel and a simple mistake turned into a HUGE disaster.
But it doesn’t make those groups of insane people the super human terror machines the nut bags would have you think they are and what they do has no more to do with Islam then a hill of beans.

I myself do not approve of the majority of Muslims because the Muslim lifestyle is often oppressive and/or abusive to women.
But if we were going to start pointing fingers and starting wars over that then every Christian in the world would have to look back just two generations to when Christianity was by majority oppressive and abusive towards women.

The main problem with Generalizing all muslims as terrorists is that it invites “revelations” which is a sin (if you are Christian) because in the bible God clearly states several times that Man does not make god’s law.
So if you are Christian and you think this is all about Zionism or that this kind of behavior somehow justifies your faith then you are buying a one way ticket to hell for yourself.
You don’t tempt fate.

I said it before and I will say it again.
You have to be the bigger person if you want to escape you’re fears.
We have to show strength instead of weakness.

If you really want to know about Islam then read the Koran.
I put myself through reading it, it wasn’t as interesting as I’d hoped and it was hardly spiritual to me at all but I read it just as I’ve read the Hebrew scripture, the life of the Buddha, the bible and even the satanic bible.
Because I prefer to know what I am talking about and repeating historical mistakes (especially over misplaced spiritual opinions) is just not something I want to do in this lifetime or watch my children suffer in theirs.

Think ahead.

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Being too liberal and naive can be dangerous. Radical Islam will chew you up and spit you out. Don't be afraid to speak out AGAINST ANYTHING that your gut feeling know is wrong.

See, this is a good example of someone who is far too paranoid.
If everyone blindly followed every fearful and hateful instinct there would be chaos.

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There are groups of insane people in the world (believe it or not).

I seen this Sentence and I had to laugh. Actually a few Groups of insane people came to mind. Like The New World Order, Freemasons, Bohemian Grove Members, United States Government. That's just to name a few. Anyways LOL...