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You cannot steer people's personal faith. Islam is now a part of western culture, whether you like it or not. It's not just for people in prison, or rock stars looking for a new thing. Some people just associate with Islam more than Christianity. That does for the other side of things too - 70% or so of Americans are Christians, and although many don't like that, it's just the way it is. It's a fact, it can't be changed, and those people are entitled to follow their faith. Acts in the name of Christianity have been responsible for some pretty fuc.ed up consequences in the last 50 years.
The Christians most likely killed WAY more protestants, Jews and 'Indian's in South America. Also, North Americans killing the natives and all that. Islam also has its extremists but it united the disparaged tribes of the Middle East and brought peace to the region, which led to it being the bastion of learning, right? Technically speaking, the Destabilization of the area started with the crusades and then continued under many an imperial regime.
I don’t know why people hate Islam; I think the hate comes from the media. Some Americans are so ignorant and gullible that they allow the media to deceive them. Its always "a suicide bomber killed this many" and "violent Palestinian boys throw rocks" but if we look at the bigger picture its a rock against a tank, apache helicopters, grenades and the list goes on. From this view it is quite simple to see the injustice.
Things like 9/11 happen daily in Palestine only like 10X more inhuman all due to American funds. So we don’t require a great stretch of the imagination to understand why Muslims might be angry with the West at the moment. They could easily find faults with "Christianity" in their turn, since so many Christians are acting in total contradiction to Christian principles. But the true problem has nothing to do with religion. Public opinion is being quite deliberately stirred up for political motives - Hitler did the same. Saying this does not imply defense of religious creed, however - neither one nor the other.
I will add to your list another Moslems with big impact on history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crusade Expedition
Josef Stalin
Bush father
Bush son
Blair
Serbia Leader Molsefitch
All Israelis leaders and government members from the begging to date.
Etc
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