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Submitted by Clifford Ishii (United States), Mar 2, 2007 at 20:47

If the west & the world want to defeat Islam, then Fundamental Christianity is the answer. Secularism, liberalism,etc is not equipped to do it.

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Religion is metaphoric, not historic. [115 words]	Tonio	Aug 14, 2009 08:52
if we do nothing . . . [99 words]	Phil Greend	Jun 24, 2007 21:32
The Vatican Confronts Islam [375 words]	EuGene Turner	Dec 15, 2006 13:19
Why can Muslims say whatever they want? [134 words]	Spanky	Sep 18, 2006 07:43
Everybody is scared of islam [50 words]	Jaygen	Sep 17, 2006 21:28
↔ Reasons to become "Terrorist".. [230 words]	Sajid Aziz	Dec 11, 2006 00:30
↔ The Real Catholic institution [41 words]	George Adams	May 11, 2008 20:52
↔ Catholic Church [107 words]	Northern Gryphon	Aug 18, 2008 16:04
↔ Incompatibility [82 words]	James	Feb 16, 2009 15:42
Slightly off topic, but very apropo! [134 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Sep 17, 2006 16:01
Why should the Pope apologise? [158 words]	Waverider	Sep 17, 2006 15:53
Pope right. Muslims' response is predictably "don't call our prophet evil, or I'll cut your head off." [448 words]	Michael	Sep 17, 2006 14:59
Hypocrisy [77 words]	Cristina	Sep 17, 2006 14:16
Pope Benedict strikes again [73 words]	Vijay	Sep 16, 2006 09:06
Islam is Terrorism [31 words]	Christine	Sep 16, 2006 05:14
↔ why christian? [131 words]	Hussein Al-Shareef	Sep 26, 2006 16:29
↔ Go read.............. [53 words]	sameer	Dec 21, 2006 08:46
↔ What? [32 words]	Bb	Jan 31, 2007 12:40
Re; "Islam NEVER spread by the SWORD" [1109 words]	Greg	Sep 16, 2006 01:27
You call THIS a Holy Figure? [127 words]	The Observer	Sep 15, 2006 21:53
↔ One Sided MultiCulturalism [57 words]	Jah	Sep 17, 2006 14:01
↔ Islam [171 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Sep 20, 2006 02:12
↔ Re: A True Man Of God Speaks The Truth [32 words]	AnneM	Sep 26, 2006 21:50
↔ The vatican confronts islam! [207 words]	EuGene Turner	Dec 29, 2006 16:34
↔ Faith is belief w/o evidence or reason [75 words]	TomS	Aug 29, 2007 11:44
Who needs this? [315 words]	Sensible Human	Sep 15, 2006 21:01
Pope loses his respect by passing foolish remarks on prophet Peace be upon him [47 words]	muhammad ali	Sep 15, 2006 15:52
↔ To muhammad ali [102 words]	Vijay	Sep 16, 2006 18:06
↔ Respect [249 words]	Michael	Sep 17, 2006 12:45
↔ Understand [50 words]	Sameer	Dec 21, 2006 09:26
↔ Look around... [196 words]	Michael Kocian	Dec 22, 2006 09:21
↔ To Michael Kocian [205 words]	sameer	Dec 23, 2006 04:24
↔ Poor brainwashed Islam apologist... [171 words]	Michael Kocian	Dec 23, 2006 18:00
↔ Poor Michael Kocian......... [21 words]	Sameer	Dec 25, 2006 02:26
↔ Sameer... [76 words]	Michael Kocian	Dec 25, 2006 20:50
↔ he called spade a spade [34 words]	steve bakmore	Jun 22, 2007 10:42
I am shocked! [333 words]	mahmoud natout	Sep 15, 2006 14:08
↔ The Vatican Confronts Islam [711 words]	EuGene Turner	Dec 18, 2006 17:55
↔ Islam must be stopped [244 words]	pirro	Sep 29, 2009 13:08
Popes recent comments on Jihad [275 words]	J. Abrahim	Sep 15, 2006 11:50
The Pope on Islam [51 words]	Patriot	Sep 15, 2006 11:46
↔ You will come to know!!! [57 words]	sameer	Dec 21, 2006 08:55
maybe Samuel Huntington had it right [260 words]	M.A. Rubinstein	Sep 15, 2006 09:32
The Vatican Confronts Islam Art. No. 3729 [60 words]	S.C.Panda	Jul 21, 2006 02:48
↔ Islam Is the religion of peace and mercy [194 words]	Hussein Al-Shareef	Sep 15, 2006 09:26
Friends in High Places - Pope John Paul II, Hamas' Pope [483 words]	Poles for Israel	Jul 18, 2006 14:12
'Turning the other cheek' -What did Jesus really say? [154 words]	Linda	Jul 15, 2006 13:00
likelihood [84 words]	Dan	Jul 11, 2006 15:27
Nazareth is in Israel [w/response] [97 words]	Wesley Landen	Jul 11, 2006 14:00
↔ Note Added In Proof [60 words]	orange yonason	Jul 14, 2006 19:31
It is time for reality: [37 words]	Tony swiss	Jul 11, 2006 11:10
United we stand divided we fall! [240 words]	Ron Henderson	Jul 11, 2006 08:58
Vatican and Islam [w/response] [48 words]	Rick Fitzgibbons	Jul 10, 2006 09:49
What 'more hospitable environment'? [w/response] [210 words]	bat Barnabas	Jul 9, 2006 21:54
↔ "Paranoia Strikes Deep, Into Your..." [152 words]	LDC	Jul 10, 2006 18:02
↔ Dear Pastor LDC [305 words]	bat Barnabas	Jul 11, 2006 00:20
The Pope Got it Right [w/response] [294 words]	Susan Walker	Jul 8, 2006 12:22
↔ rational authority [57 words]	Harrak	Jul 10, 2006 23:59
↔ Comments To Dr. Pipe's Comments To "The Pope Got It Right" [w/response] [430 words]	orange yonason	Jul 12, 2006 00:55
↔ The PEOPLE OF GOD must repent. [824 words]	Linda	Jul 17, 2006 12:51
↔ "...their own mortal intellectual opinions and interpetations." [382 words]	orange yonason	Jul 23, 2006 05:04
↔ To Interpret or Not to Interpret [2588 words]	Linda	Jul 24, 2006 00:13
↔ historical texts and cannonical texts are fascinating--as texts of a given time...there is no such thing as revealled truth [257 words]	MA Rubinstein	Sep 16, 2006 05:07
↔ Pope got it right [183 words]	Michael	Sep 16, 2006 15:08
↔ God proves Himself [29 words]	Linda	Sep 16, 2006 19:03
↔ No such thing as revealed truth?????????? [33 words]	EuGene Turner	Dec 19, 2006 01:48
↔ To interpret or no? [34 words]	Eugene Turner	Dec 25, 2006 09:00
↔ The vatican confronts islam [8 words]	EuGene Turner	Dec 28, 2006 07:56
Mr.Daniel Pipes , There is no Militant or Fundamental Islam .............. [3311 words]	Khushi Mehra	Jul 8, 2006 06:09
↔ comments [88 words]	Sameer	Dec 21, 2006 09:13
↔ Islamic threat [187 words]	Thiagan	Feb 6, 2007 02:55
↔ ⇒ Fundamental Christianity [24 words]	Clifford Ishii	Mar 2, 2007 20:47
Report on Organisation working to Islamise Europe into Eurabia within 20 years [73 words]	Johny Bhai	Jul 8, 2006 05:38
If Pope is serious , He must show this by expressing his support for Israel's War against Terror [571 words]	Amit Kumar	Jul 8, 2006 01:28
↔ If Pope is serious he must show this by expressing his support for Israel's war against terror. [73 words]	EuGene Turner	Dec 20, 2006 01:51
↔ To Amit Kumar [52 words]	Sameer	Dec 23, 2006 04:41
Tit for Tat [203 words]	Jaladhi	Jul 7, 2006 21:50
Vatican getting involved [47 words]	Davinci	Jul 7, 2006 20:51
infrastructure anyone? [184 words]	Donald O	Jul 7, 2006 18:54
My opinion [213 words]	Jon Alex Smail	Jul 7, 2006 14:08
↔ ?????? [416 words]	Mu'een Ud Deen	Jul 8, 2006 11:09
↔ Response to Jon Alex Smail [107 words]	Atty Zohuidy	Jul 8, 2006 16:09
↔ to jon alex smail [137 words]	mariam( muslim)	Jul 28, 2006 10:13
↔ Hello Mariam [514 words]	Jon Alex Smail	Aug 23, 2006 19:12
forget reciprocity. Thank god if you just survive in Islamic contries. [39 words]	Rajesh Gogna	Jul 7, 2006 07:22
↔ Christians are in good position in Arab Countries [125 words]	Proud Arab Christian	Jul 8, 2006 09:52
↔ re: Ethnic Cleansing [88 words]	orange yonason	Jul 9, 2006 18:30
↔ christians in islamic countries [184 words]	sohair hakim	Jul 10, 2006 11:53
↔ Seeing and hearing will make believing [118 words]	Briars	Jul 10, 2006 23:46
↔ Christians in Arab Countries? [377 words]	Ron Henderson	Jul 11, 2006 22:01
↔ sad to know [111 words]	alanski	Dec 24, 2008 11:32
Bush, Blair, and now Benedict vs. Ahmadinejad, bin Laden, et alia? Triple sweet!!!! [83 words]	C.A.	Jul 7, 2006 07:02
↔ CA your political views are handicapped [84 words]	Harrak	Jul 7, 2006 16:15
"...quiet diplomacy and muted appeasement have clearly failed." [595 words]	orange yonason	Jul 7, 2006 02:03
↔ BS"D???? [10 words]	Kevin M	Jul 9, 2006 22:56
↔ BS"D? [19 words]	John	Jul 12, 2006 02:45
↔ Many thanks! [4 words]	Kevin M	Jul 15, 2006 13:58
i bet many americans will speak out against The Church. [33 words]	ken m	Jul 7, 2006 01:43
turning the other cheek and moslem reciprocity [734 words]	Roger W	Jul 7, 2006 00:52
Welcome to the Party! [9 words]	Welcome to the Party!	Jul 6, 2006 23:39
Finally [91 words]	Charles	Jul 6, 2006 23:39
↔ Famous Letter of King of Persia [1497 words]	Sam	Jul 14, 2006 02:39
Reply to Iftekhar Hai: I'm not sure we other Abrahamites can help. [625 words]	Peter J. Herz	Jul 6, 2006 21:40
↔ asalamo alaykom [156 words]	karim	Jul 11, 2006 19:07
↔ Bienvenue a la famille de dieu [18 words]	Peter J. Herz	Jul 13, 2006 07:37
Appeasement Unappreciated [351 words]	mad-muhaa	Jul 6, 2006 20:50
Too little too late..... [79 words]	Mike	Jul 6, 2006 20:32
↔ Charles Martel [12 words]	homeDepot	Jul 7, 2006 22:41
It Takes Time [39 words]	Blackspeare	Jul 6, 2006 18:09
↔ To Blackspeare: This is a joke right? [193 words]	Richard Lion heart	Jul 7, 2006 00:24
↔ Unreasonable Analysis [256 words]	Infidel	Jul 7, 2006 02:29
↔ Wait till they get the BOMB! [6 words]	Moshe	Jul 7, 2006 09:25
↔ To Lion Heart [7 words]	Blackspeare	Jul 7, 2006 19:37
↔ To Infidel [13 words]	Blackspeare	Jul 7, 2006 19:42
↔ To Moshe [6 words]	Blackspeare	Jul 7, 2006 19:46
↔ oh so not true !!!! [58 words]	ahmad zahire	Jul 9, 2006 22:47
Protect the innocent [257 words]	Prejudice by any name is harmful	Jul 6, 2006 17:59
↔ Who is innocent? [119 words]	BK	Jul 6, 2006 22:48
↔ Prejudice by any name is harmful [70 words]	Tolerance	Jul 7, 2006 09:45
↔ Judy is confused [387 words]	pdm	Jul 7, 2006 13:51
↔ Judy [73 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Jul 8, 2006 07:02
↔ think again so,so [64 words]	ahmad zafire	Jul 9, 2006 01:27
↔ speak my friend speak!! [17 words]	ahmad zafire	Jul 9, 2006 22:52
The Truth [21 words]	Kara	Jul 6, 2006 16:34
not really [172 words]	québéquoise	Jul 6, 2006 16:19
↔ Ignorance is bliss; war is deceit... [218 words]	van der Ley	Jul 7, 2006 03:27
↔ Quebec is much better! [30 words]	Moshe	Jul 9, 2006 11:38
Very encouraging [312 words]	Ron Thompson	Jul 6, 2006 14:16
Dreams are the beginnings of reality [90 words]	Patricia Zentara	Jul 6, 2006 13:58
↔ Sad Dreams [174 words]	Moshe	Jul 9, 2006 12:21
THE VATICAN CONFRONTS ISLAM [89 words]	Dr. Joseph A barry, MD	Jul 6, 2006 13:01
Reciprocity won't work either [66 words]	Fred Raatz	Jul 6, 2006 12:39
Turning the other cheek.. [101 words]	Don	Jul 6, 2006 12:22
At last! Three cheers for the new pope! [w/response] [213 words]	Persia Gran-Freeland	Jul 6, 2006 10:38
↔ Dellusional [73 words]	LDC	Jul 7, 2006 15:53
↔ Sorry to sound like Bernard Woolley, but... [46 words]	Kevin M	Jul 15, 2006 14:07
turning other cheek doesn't mean not confronting others [140 words]	pluto's dad	Jul 6, 2006 10:38
The pope is a appeasement clown! [20 words]	Jack	Jul 6, 2006 10:36
Let he who has ACTUALLY been slapped decide if he wants to turn the other cheek [108 words]	Carlos	Jul 6, 2006 10:15
Vatican plans to conquer/convert Islam [110 words]	David Ben-Ariel	Jul 6, 2006 10:05
Thumb in JPII's ecumenical eye [115 words]	DL	Jul 6, 2006 10:01
↔ Consider This... [75 words]	Jeff	Jul 6, 2006 17:28
↔ Jeff, you miss the point [158 words]	DL	Jul 6, 2006 19:34
↔ Trickery [158 words]	Linda	Jul 7, 2006 10:03
↔ DL Give Benedict XVI Credit That He Is Realistic [53 words]	AnneM	Jul 7, 2006 11:59
Too Late [100 words]	West	Jul 6, 2006 08:50
Let the Vatican recognize Jerusalem [108 words]	Yuval Brandstetter MD	Jul 6, 2006 08:37
Indoctrination is not compatible with freedom of religion [132 words]	History Has Shown	Jul 6, 2006 07:38
Another valuable article [129 words]	Char Tierney	Jul 6, 2006 07:17
Muslims Against Humanity! [1410 words]	kamekish	Jul 6, 2006 02:56
The Vatican Confronts Islam [87 words]	steven L	Jul 6, 2006 00:55
Shhhhh! Don't Anybody Tell the Arabist Dhimmis in the State Department That .... [46 words]	gunjam	Jul 6, 2006 00:39
Catholics and Muslims [42 words]	Timothy B. Roberts	Jul 6, 2006 00:16
I'm just wondering... [14 words]	John C. Randolph	Jul 5, 2006 23:31
Vatican confronts Islam [106 words]	Nenette Grunberg	Jul 5, 2006 23:19
The fear of Islam [133 words]	f.shakki	Jul 5, 2006 22:38
↔ The Islamic threat really becoming very dangerous [253 words]	Moshe	Jul 7, 2006 09:14
↔ You did not learn from history [266 words]	f.shakki	Jul 7, 2006 23:10
↔ f.shakki, you are right! [4 words]	Moshe	Jul 12, 2006 03:38
Cathedral of Saint Jude [61 words]	Thomas Mahany	Jul 5, 2006 22:17
Vatican's Attitude Vs. The world's greatest Colonialist Army called Islam [988 words]	TTS	Jul 5, 2006 22:02
↔ Mr.TTS , you are absolutely correct , we need to ........ [293 words]	Nathulala	Jul 8, 2006 10:12
↔ Islam is the best [256 words]	Muhammad Umar Hashmi	Oct 4, 2009 13:57
Wishful Thinking [41 words]	John D	Jul 5, 2006 21:42
What rights? [36 words]	H. Yazdi	Jul 5, 2006 21:35
↔ Paradox [61 words]	Moshe	Jul 7, 2006 05:55
Yay for Pope Benny! [128 words]	Richard B.	Jul 5, 2006 21:03
Won't be happening... [318 words]	Don	Jul 5, 2006 20:44
Reciprocity [36 words]	Josef Klein	Jul 5, 2006 19:02
Islam is Work-in Progress [266 words]	Iftekhar Hai	Jul 5, 2006 18:29
↔ To Iftekhar: A good idea but... [84 words]	Richard Lion heart	Jul 7, 2006 00:04
↔ I'm afraid you're speaking to the wrong audience [89 words]	Rick House	Jul 9, 2006 01:39
↔ Indian subcontinent is under siege by Islamic Invaders [388 words]	Lawrence Davis	Jul 9, 2006 13:40
Islam v. Radical Islam [273 words]	Bill Storey	Jul 5, 2006 18:03
Christians, Catholics, Must Rediscover The Pratice Of The "Just War" Theory [104 words]	AnneM	Jul 5, 2006 17:59
Non-Muslims ALWAYS a lower ranking mortal [123 words]	Hannah	Jul 5, 2006 17:45
Muslims Must Be Confronted About Their Abusive Culture [241 words]	Alexander	Jul 5, 2006 17:32
↔ What Muslims can do ????? [246 words]	Markus	Jul 9, 2006 14:19
It has to begin somewhere [107 words]	David W. Lincoln	Jul 5, 2006 17:17
Pope John Paul II on Islam [266 words]	Linda	Jul 5, 2006 16:49
Reciprocity is a pipe dream [90 words]	Rick House	Jul 5, 2006 16:31
↔ Thanks, Rick [9 words]	LDC	Jul 5, 2006 17:03
↔ Recpirocity is a pipe dream [167 words]	Andrew	Jul 5, 2006 17:43
↔ Conversion is the only answer [91 words]	docdave	Jul 6, 2006 13:59
↔ Conversion [82 words]	Daisy	Jul 6, 2006 19:12
Mad Catholics? Uh, Oh. [125 words]	LDC	Jul 5, 2006 16:08
↔ Defending Pius XII [817 words]	Noah Nehm	Jul 6, 2006 00:12
↔ You're Right, Noah... [209 words]	LDC	Jul 6, 2006 17:00
↔ Make your mind up, LDC [392 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Jul 8, 2006 07:48
↔ For the Ages [209 words]	LDC	Jul 10, 2006 08:10
↔ Bang that drum! [736 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Jul 11, 2006 08:48
↔ Get some perspective, LDC [763 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Jul 11, 2006 16:34
↔ When I type fsat... [433 words]	LDC	Jul 11, 2006 18:12
↔ On the Contrary [540 words]	LDC	Jul 12, 2006 19:35
↔ Not so fsat! [650 words]	Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan	Jul 13, 2006 21:49
↔ Well said [159 words]	LDC	Jul 14, 2006 18:32
Interesting indeed! [178 words]	Saikat Biswas	Jul 5, 2006 15:16
Meaning of the Word, Radical [w/response] [191 words]	Walter Manchur	Jul 5, 2006 14:52
Ya... right! [6 words]	Steve Jones	Jul 5, 2006 13:58
It's about time [615 words]	Christina	Jul 5, 2006 13:57
↔ christina [124 words]	ahmad zafire	Jul 5, 2006 21:20
↔ My dear Ahmed [44 words]	joe	Jul 7, 2006 18:17
↔ sorry for you joe [65 words]	ahmadzafire	Jul 10, 2006 09:00
↔ Mr Pipes is great but he's wrong when he claim "allah is God" and "kuran will be reformed" [w/response] [468 words]	Italian	Aug 1, 2006 20:01
↔ Islam v Civilization [194 words]	surj	Jan 1, 2007 21:33
Misconceptions about Matt 5:39 [138 words]	Steve Cooper	Jul 5, 2006 13:48
↔ Correct [35 words]	LDC	Jul 5, 2006 17:06
↔ steve [240 words]	ahmad zafire	Jul 5, 2006 21:46
APPEASEMENT WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE FREE WORLD. [206 words]	Janet Ann	Jul 5, 2006 13:36
What took so long [79 words]	Stuart Bliwas	Jul 5, 2006 13:32
↔ WCC=UN [99 words]	LDC	Jul 5, 2006 17:12
↔ Clarification [64 words]	Stuart Bliwas	Jul 6, 2006 19:16
↔ WCC & RCC [91 words]	LDC	Jul 7, 2006 15:44
↔ To LDC Thanks [33 words]	Stuart Bliwas	Jul 11, 2006 19:20
↔ Not a Detailed Source [26 words]	LDC	Jul 12, 2006 18:52
Finally! [96 words]	Kevin M	Jul 5, 2006 13:13
De Paolis deserves being supported But the issue is not Dar al Islam, it is Dar al Dictatoriah (dictatorship) [358 words]	HARRAK	Jul 5, 2006 12:54
A possible interesting result of a policy demanding reciprocity [272 words]	J. Keen Holland	Jul 5, 2006 12:54
Good news, but it's time for a new paradigm for achieving a sustainable Peace ... only through Justice [100 words]	Norman Kurland	Jul 5, 2006 12:42
↔ Abraham Federation & Islamism [123 words]	Richard Foley	Jul 7, 2006 20:58
Truly remarkable [136 words]	SHmuel Halevi	Jul 5, 2006 12:41
↔ Vatican prepares to butt heads with Islam [39 words]	David Ben-Ariel	Jul 6, 2006 10:12
GOOD ARTICLE [5 words]	PJM	Jul 5, 2006 12:00
It's getting louder [415 words]	No Dhimmi	Jul 5, 2006 11:46
↔ Washingon, Jefferson, Adams all terrorized by islam [127 words]	PDM	Jul 6, 2006 10:05
confronting Islam [155 words]	joe	Jul 5, 2006 11:35
↔ Joe - History repeats itself again and again [130 words]	Jaladhi	Jul 5, 2006 17:43
↔ elementary demographics [120 words]	G.Bisvas	Jul 6, 2006 13:40
↔ The same old, same old.... [233 words]	Jim	Jul 6, 2006 14:16
↔ 'Radical' Islam is a misnomer [279 words]	Jim	Jul 6, 2006 16:22
↔ Peace-loving, egalitarian Muslims are the aberration in Islam. [215 words]	Ron	Jul 8, 2006 09:26
↔ Faith and Force are inseperable [387 words]	Ralph C Whaley MD	Jul 8, 2006 13:49
↔ Selective Reasoning [135 words]	Dan Parker	Jul 8, 2006 17:59
↔ Re: Selective reasoning [139 words]	Ron	Jul 10, 2006 13:03
↔ Re: Selective reasoning [424 words]	Moshe	Jul 11, 2006 06:02
↔ Selective Reasoning [194 words]	Dan Parker	Jul 11, 2006 18:24
↔ Thanks Moshe [381 words]	Jim	Jul 12, 2006 14:27
↔ To Moshe [332 words]	Ron	Jul 14, 2006 08:58

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