VincenzoTurismo said:
Islam has only been around for 600 years and the founder and prophet Mohammed was a distant relative of Abraham. Mohammed was no Jesus Christ though. Unlike Jesus who preached love, Mohammed preached numerous ways of violence and war.
Mohammed and his evil army would also force their religion and beliefs on others, and if you didn't convert, you were killed. The crusades happened shortly thereafter inorder to stop the spreading of Islam. Most of Europe was un-affected, however certain countries such as Turkey are now 95% muslim.
I am a baptized Catholic, but I am not really religious. I do not however find myself ever converting to Islam. At least other religions are more civalized in certain area's. The muslim extremists are filled with so much hatred and are the most brain-washed. You can see that in USAma Bin Laden and his towel-wearing boyfriends. Also, look at how they treat their women such as torturing and killing them for adultery or sex before marriage, or even dressing them in burkas because they are overly jealous.
The United States is the crusader of our generation, and many more to come.
Ciao,
VT
Some of your statements above are a little wide of what turns up* when you Google "muslim rule in Spain" which means that 600 years you referred to as how long "Islam has been around" is shorter than the time they spent occupying and governing a sizeable chunk of the Europe you say "was unaffected". By most accounts their regime was more civilized and tolerant than the Christian one that followed. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (yes, Columbus's Queen Isabella) were brutally repressive, not just of their Muslim foes but also of the Jews, who had been peacably neutral for centuries.
Had it not beeen for the Islamic scholars who preserved and studied the works of Aristotle, Plato and other Greeks and Romans while Europeans were burning them, or scraping theer parchments clean to write lives of the saints, we wouldn't have had the Renaissance. To say nothing of 'our' arabic number system, serious astronomy, medicine, chemistry and physiology that we got from the arabs back in the 15thC. That's howcum algebra and alcohol start w/ "al" because they were originally arabic words.
It was not to "stop the spreading of Islam" that the Crusaders who took Jerusalem slew every soul in it men women and children, Christian, Muslim and Jew until the streets flowed with blood past their ankles. That was the Christian way of winning back the holy places, and that was the reason for the crusades. When Constantinople fell to the Turks, and when they swept to the gates of Vienna (we get
croissants from their crescent flag crusading was distinctly out of fashion.
It's fine that you despise the crimes against women and others that you enumerate, but not so fine that you mistakenly attribute them to the religion—which you, and we, need to learn more about: Mohammed owed much to women and admitted it, for example—and not to the same human failings all peoples and all faiths can find bitter examples of in our past.
* Muslims ruled Spain 711-1492 AD, I believe the 'founding' of Islam is usually dated 635 AD. [Actually it's 622, dated from the Hejira] Until Constantinople fell it still styled itself the capital of the Roman Empire, as the capital had been moved there from Rome well before Constantine bestowed his name on what had been Byzantium, and is now Istanbul.
