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Old 07-30-2009, 06:47   #9
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Originally Posted by Blu Falcon View Post
It has everything to do with the Arab culture, which has greatly contributed to the distorting of a religion that is not much different than Christianity.
Pakistanis and other Southwestern Asians are not Arabs, are they?

Yet Muslims there are largely violent and intolerant of other faiths.

What about Muslim Phillipinos, Somalis, or Indonesians?

I believe that universally, the religion advocates violence against non-Muslims, to include other "people of the book". The only difference is the degree to which it is pursued.

The difference between Christianity and Islam appears to me to be about a thousand years of evolution, and a peaceful theology as taught by Jesus Christ versus the violence practiced and advocated by Mohammed. Have you studied who he was and how he came to found the religion?

I don't think Muslims are buying into that Coca-Cola commercial. About the only thing they have in common with Christianity is the Old Testament and monotheism.

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