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Old 11-12-2007, 09:25 PM   #38
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Yeah, I've got to say that edvest1's views on Islam are pretty ignorant.

Islam may have the largest amount of extremism of any religion at the moment, but anyone who thinks this is unique of Islam has a very selective memory. The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition anyone?

Every religion has extremists. It's just that at the moment, those who hate Western civilization are finding Islam to be a convenient vehicle for spreading radicalism. That doesn't make the religion itself bad. It just happens to be sitting on top of a number of cultural phenomena and is being exploited at the moment.
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