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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Tuesday, August 22 2006, 1:35:42 (CEST)
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...Pulitzer Prize winning historian who wrote a 13 volume series titled The "Story Of Civilization", says this about Islam in its early years...

"Syria remained predominantly Christian until the third Moslem century (tenth century AD); in the reign of Mamum (813-33) we hear of 11,000 Christian churches in Islam-as well as hundreds of synagogues and fire temples. Christian festivals were freely and openly celebrated; Christian pilgrims came in safety to visit Christian shrines in Plaestine; the Crusaders found large numbers of Christians in the Near East in the twelfth century; and Christian communities have survived there to this day. Christian heretics (among whom you can count the kids) persecuted by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria or Antioch were now free and safe under a Moslem rule that found their disputes quite unintelligible. In the ninth century the Moslem governor of Antioch (where supposedly "Christian love" won over the Assyrians) appointed a special guard to keep Christian sects from massacring one another AT CHURCH (emphasis mine). Monasterias and nunneries flourished under the skeptical Umayyads; the Arabs admired the work of the monks in agriculture and reclamation, acclaimed wines of monastic vintage and enjoyed, in travel, the shade of hospitality of Christian cloisters. For a time relations between the two religions were so genial that Christians wearing crosses on their breats conversed in mosques with Moslem friends. The Mohammedan administrative bureaucracy had hundreds of Christian employees; Christians rose so frequently to high office as to provoke Moslem complaints. Serguis, father of St John of Damascus, was chief finance minister to Abd-al-Malik, and John himself, last of the Greek Fathers of the Church, headed the council that governed Damascus. The Christians of the East (which includes the kids) in general regarded Islamic rule as a lesser evil than that of the Byzantine government and church.

Despite or because of this policy of tolerance in early Islam, the new faith won over to itself in time MOST OF THE CHRISTIANS (emphasis mine), nearly all the Zoroastrians and pagans (Assyrians among them) and many of the Jews of Asia, Egypt, and North Africa.

Gradually the non-Moslem populations adopted the Arabic language and dress, the laws and the faith of the Koran. Where Hellenism, after a thousand years of misery, had failed to take root and Roman arms had left the native gods UNCONQUERED (emphasis mine), and Byzantine orthodoxy had raised rebellious heresies, Mohammedanism had secured, almost without proselytism, not only belief and worship, but a tenacious fidelity that quite forgot the superceded gods.

From China, Indonesia,and India through Persia, Syria, Arabia, and Egypt to Morroco and Spain, the Mohammedan faith touched the hearts and fancies of a hundred peoples, governed their morals and molded their lives, gave them consoling hopes and a strengthening pride, until today it owns the passionate allegiance of 350,000,000 souls (published in 1950), and through all political divisions makes them one."

...there's lots more. Sure, Islam degenerated...as did Christianity as now Judaism...they ALL became murderous caricatures of what they once were, or said they wanted to be. But that's the danger of ANY system of mind control which insists on getting hold of babies and whispering to them all their lives through what they MUST believe...such a system, even though it is intended to secure greater control over people's lives for the supposed security of the group, can't but help in the long run to rob humans of their most basic and noble qualities..and that is to THINK and to REASON...the prohibition against which, in time, rots any social group.

The lies being put out there by Christians now...Christians who either know they are lying or conveniently want to believe the absolutely worst...are being used to create an atmosphere in which another, though better engineered, Holocaust will repeat itself.

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