re: #330 Rightwingconspirator

Yeah, the Romans fed Christians to animals in the arena. Full of gore indeed. Full lions anyway.

Can we not forget the Crusades followed 400 years of conversion by the sword to Islam on a bloody trail from Saudi Arabia all the way to Europe please? Then the Crusades happened. of course the alternative of just surrendering was there then we could all be facing Mecca a few times a day.
I just do not see how the Crusades can be considered whilst setting that four century fact aside.

Muslims, likewise, are prone to excuse many of their tactics with the claim that they are defending themselves against external attack. This defense lies at the core of Wahabism, in fact, which views the West as evil not so much because of their heretical beliefs, but because of what is viewed as the existential threat Western lifestyles and conduct poses to Muslim culture and religion.

Also, Islamic misbehavior does not begin to excuse the wretched, evil excesses committed by both Catholic and Protestant churches throughout the New World, with whole races driven to near extinction, nor the horrors that Manifest Destiny brought to aboriginal North America.