I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.
The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.
Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
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