"I haven't read all that he has written or yours for hat matter but the general massage I am getting from him is, yes he is spouting off religion as the only option but he is distancing himself from terrorism. Any peaceful movement, whether you believe it or not, and I am with you on this one, should be tolerated if not respected. You on the other hand have made statements that condemn the religion and not the man and I believe you are playing into the hands of the terrorists. He is not knocking on your door but is on an open forum so let him be and stop wasting your time. It just makes you look like more of a zealot than he is. Maybe you can allow him the platform to distance themselves from the terrorist element in the religion."
Indeed Zan. If indeed you had had weeks of watching how this person has failed to respond to some very articulate and convincing arguments by other members of this forum including Tim Drayton who demonstrated a deeper understanding of the Qu'ran that this zealot Qamersland, you may understand the frustration that arises when once again the same dogma of peace and love is trotted out but the harsh realities of militant Islam are skated over and blissfully ignored when presented to him.
All fanatical movements have their apologists.
When I lived in the UK a few years ago, we had the Animal Liberation Front. Old ladies would knock on your door asking you to sign petitions against vivisection, peaceful protests would be held against fox hunting, mink farms would be boycotted.
Genuine protest by genuine people but behind the old ladies at the back of the crowd were the men with bricks, there were thugs who threatened staff at research institutes, the arsonists and bomb makers who even threatened Oxford University if they built a research lab.
Then the fight back began, a 16-year-old schoolboy, Laurie Pycroft used the internet to fight back against the intimidation by the thugs, and it worked.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story ... 16,00.html
All movements have their nice side, I'm not a zealot but I should be free to make my point against someone who behaves like one. And Sqamersland does not attempt to distance himself from the terrorist elements of his religion, he attempts to explain it by blaming Blair, Bush and the invasion of Iraq.
rawk