WAR!

Reader comment on item: What is Jihad?

Submitted by Soisay (United States), Mar 20, 2004 at 19:55

There is violence at the root of Islam, not peace. This is true historically and in the dimension of the origin of ideas.
Either Islam must come to grips and triumph over its hate-filled beginnings (Mohammed was scorned for his ignorance by the scholars of the Torah and developed a hate for everything alien to his own view) or Islam will perish.

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