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=> Jihad and Crusade

Jihad and Crusade
Posted by stooge number one (Guest) - Wednesday, November 14 2007, 21:42:57 (CET)
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One of the downsides of never thinking but merely reacting is that the Jumblats don’t even understand themselves…have no idea that what they think they said comes out meaning something very different…perpend:

Jumblat got all warm and fuzzy pointing out that Islam, “nasty” Islam, had taught the West recently the meaning of “Jihad”. In the first place the West got the word completely wrong, intentionally…Jihad means a lot more than what Bush says it does; it isn’t “war”, like the kind the West has been waging for centuries. But I’ll leave its definition to someone else.

What Jumblat was trying to convey, in that endearingly tortuous way he has, is that Islam has brought only negative things to the West; most recently “Jihad”…which the West had been spared having to know the meaning of until now. “Thanks a lot Islam”, we’re supposed to think, “is that the best you have to offer”?

Let’s agree with him in one respect; let’s agree that the West only recently became aware of “Jihad”…then again college students in the West hardly know where Ireland is on a world map so ignorance about “Jihad” shouldn’t be so startling…anyway. There is a word, “Crusade”, which the entire world knows well enough, much to its regret…and which the Arab world, in particular, learned the meaning of a long time ago. They learned it as far back as 1099, the year of the first Crusade against Islam.

While we concede that the West knew nothing of Islamic-religious-warfare(Jihad) till a few years ago…Islam, by contrast, learned the meaning of Christian-religious-warfare(Crusade) almost 1000 years ago. In other words; war, under the guise of religion, was brought to Islam much earlier(and lasted off and on for 200 years) than its Muslim counterpart…this would imply that Islam held off much longer than Christianity…and only retaliated, in kind, after 909 years of provocation. It would seem by this that the prize for patience and tolerance, once again, must be awarded to Islam.

Thank you, Jumblat, for pointing this out. Like I said; why ban you people when you do most of my work for me.



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