Reply #27: What do you mean, "negativity"?

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I was responding to this quote, "the islamists have absolutely no desire to convert the entire world to radical islam. only christians do stuff like that." which is total nonsense.


You want some links? OK

http://www.barnabasfund.org/News/Archive/Egypt/Egypt-20031024.htm


http://www.persecution.org/Countries/egypt.html

Read way down on this last one.

There are dozens of others. Do your own search if you are really interested in learning.

Sufism. I am no expert, but I seem to recall that it is a somewhat mystical branch of Islam that has been persecuted by other Muslims for many, many years.

Then, there is the hatred that the Shi'ite and Sunnit Muslims have borne toward each other for centuries.

Look, I'm not particularly trying to criticize Islam or Arabs. I'm just saying that "Christians", over the centuries, have been no worse than "Muslims", when judged by current standards.