Utter drivel? Sorry, but Turkey, Egypt and Jordan are not Islamic states. While there is some elasticity to the definition of that term depending on how strictly Sharia law is enforced, the true Islamic states are Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Mauritania and maybe 1 or 2 others (incl Pakistan). See
http://www.islamic-world.net/islamic-state/assessing_consti.htm
Do you really dispute the proposition that:
The Quran and interpretive Islamic law
dictate that all right thinking Muslims wage jihad in order to bring about a world-wide caliphat, a supremacist theocracy, governed by Sharia law? Devout Muslims are mandated by their religion to subjugate all non-believers and the existence of diplomatic relations between Israel and some states where Islam is the official religion (contrasted with an Islamic state) is not dispositive of the matter.
You say there has never been any pogrom in the moslem world like those carried out in Eastern Europe. What about the jihad inspired genocide of more than a 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Islamic Ottoman empire at the turn of the 20th century? In 1914, as the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the central powers, an official anti-Christian jihad was proclaimed. All in, from 1896-1923, some 2.5 million Christians were killed, the first modern genocide, which to this day is denied by the Turkish government.
A further lengthy quote from jihadwatch.org is appropriate.
"Since the breakup of the Islamic Empire following World War I, various jihads have been fought around the globe by the independent Muslim nations and sub-state jihadist groups. The most sustained effort has been directed against Israel, which has committed the unpardonable sin of rebuilding dar al-harb on land formerly a part of dar al-Islam. Other prominent jihads include that fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Muslim Bosnians against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the Muslim Albanians against the Serbs in Kosovo, and the Chechens against the Russians in the Caucasus. Jihads have also been waged throughout northern Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, Kashmir, and a host of other places throughout the world. In addition, the overwhelming majority of terrorist attacks around the world have been committed by Muslims, including, of course, the spectacular attacks of 9/11/01 (USA), 3/11/04 (Spain), and 7/7/05 (UK). (For a more comprehensive list of Muslim attacks, visit www.thereligionofpeace.com.)
The fact is, the percentage of conflicts in the world today that do not include Islam is pretty small. Islam is making a comeback."
Moreover, the rose colored history of the peaceful coexistence between the Islamic majority and Jewish/Christian minorities in predominantly Islamic regions generally avoids the mention of the limits on the latters' practice of religion and the requirement that they live in dhimmitude or as second class citizens.
So, bigbadwolf, who is the bullshitter and who is regurgitating Islamic propaganda designed to continue the charade that Islam is the religion of peace?
p.s. Go to Armenia St in Bs As. Meet a an ethnic Armenian and ask them about the Turks. To this day Turks dare not go into any Armenian establishment in that barrio.
