(Nov 24, 2016 04:10 PM)Carol Wrote: [ -> ]Islam is a very peaceful religion. Whenever they mention a prophets' name they say ]Peace be upon him". They avoid arguments and they lived in peace with the Jews until Zionism, and the refusal of Jews to stop bring more Jews into Palestine and limit the size of their population as Britan said they must do. Britain had unarmed everyone, but the Jews had connections with the US and they smuggled in weapons following the second world war and used them against the British as well as against the Muslims. Britain withdrew from Palestine and neither Britain nor the US demanded the UN decisions be enforced in Palestine and then CIA interference with Iran's politics during the Eisenhower administration was another blow against Islam. I know this isn't about the education of Islam, but I think it is a necessary explanation the problem.
The US interest in the region is strategic and about the control of the movement of oil, and other trade. The US interest in the region increased when Britain withdrew, the USSR began moving in. No one cared about Palestinians nor the people of Iran, any more than the US cared about the people of Iraq when it invaded Iraq prepared to defend the oil wells but not the people.
Syne, I am no more anti-semitic than I am anti-Christian or anti-Muslim. I think the God of Abraham religions are problematic because their shared mythology is that there is a God who can violate the laws of nature, and who has favorite people and commanded the Jews to invade land and kill everyone there, to claim that land as their own. Islam has more commands against war than Judaism or Christianity, but it is working with the same mythology of a jealous, fearsome and revengeful God. However, I am anti Zionism and so are some Jews. That means, I do not believe Europeans had a God-given right to take the land of native Americans, nor the land of the Palestinians.
By the way, Muslim Arabs are also Semitic.
You're naive if you think saying "peace" a lot means that you're peaceful. Would you equally believe the car salesman who keeps saying he's honest? They do believe in peace, but according to the Quran, only for Muslims and only after all the infidel have been killed off, enslaved, or ruled. There are no Jews allowed to hold government office in any Muslim countries (where Islam is typically a theocracy that runs the government), while Muslims routinely hold government office in Israel.
France. A new, widely-covered poll shows that a full 16% of French people have positive attitudes toward ISIS. That includes 27% of French between the ages of 18-24. Anne-Elizabeth Moutet of Newsweek wrote, “This is the ideology of young French Muslims from immigrant backgrounds…these are the same people who torch synagogues.”
Britain. In 2006, a poll for the Sunday Telegraph found that 40% of British Muslims wanted shariah law in the United Kingdom, and that 20% backed the 7/7 bombers. Another poll from that year showed that 45% of British Muslims said that 9/11 was an American/Israeli conspiracy; that poll showed that one-quarter of British Muslims believed that the 7/7 bombings were justified.
Palestinian Areas. A poll in 2011 showed that 32% of Palestinians supported the brutal murder of five Israeli family members, including a three-month-old baby. In 2009, a poll showed that 78% of Palestinians had positive or mixed feelings about Osama Bin Laden. A 2013 poll showed 40% of Palestinians supporting suicide bombings and attacks against civilians. 89% favored sharia law. Currently, 89% of Palestinians support terror attacks on Israel.
Pakistan. After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Gilani Foundation did a poll of Pakistanis and found that 51% of them grieved for the terrorist mastermind, with 44% of them stating that he was a martyr. In 2009, 26% of Pakistanis approved of attacks on US troops in Iraq. That number was 29% for troops in Afghanistan. Overall, 76% of Pakistanis wanted strict shariah law in every Islamic country.
Morocco. A 2009 poll showed that 68% of Moroccans approved of terrorist attacks on US troops in Iraq; 61% backed attacks on American troops in Afghanistan as of 2006. 76% said they wanted strict sharia law in every Islamic country.
Jordan. 72% of Jordanians backed terror attacks against US troops in Iraq as of 2009. In 2010, the terrorist group Hezbollah had a 55% approval rating; Hamas had a 60% approval rating.
Indonesia: In 2009, a poll demonstrated that 26% of Indonesians approved of attacks on US troops in Iraq; 22% backed attacks on American troops in Afghanistan. 65% said they agreed with Al Qaeda on pushing US troops out of the Middle East. 49% said they supported strict sharia law in every Islamic country. 70% of Indonesians blamed 9/11 on the United States, Israel, someone else, or didn’t know. Just 30% said Al Qaeda was responsible.
Egypt. As of 2009, 87% of Egyptians said they agreed with the goals of Al Qaeda in forcing the US to withdraw forces from the Middle East. 65% said they wanted strict sharia law in every Islamic country. As of that same date, 69% of Egyptians said they had either positive or mixed feelings about Osama Bin Laden. In 2010, 95% of Egyptians said it was good that Islam is playing a major role in politics.
United States. A 2013 poll from Pew showed that 13% of American Muslims said that violence against civilians is often, sometimes or rarely justified to defend Islam. A 2011 poll from Pew showed that 21 percent of Muslims are concerned about extremism among Muslim Americans. 19 percent of American Muslims as of 2011 said they were either favorable toward Al Qaeda or didn’t know.
The British ultimately admitted they were wrong to limit Jewish immigration (while not limiting Arab immigration) in the Peel Commission, after the flood of holocaust refugees proved the area could support the population. And Muslims found common cause with Hilter, which is why they renamed Persia Iran (Aryan). The British had already shown their Arab favoritism, so nothing would have stopped the Jewish genocide but arming the Israelis. And even after WWII, the surrounding Muslim countries were eager to arm the Palestinians, to continue the genocide.
The residents of Palestine are called "Palestinians". Since Palestine includes both modern day Israel and Jordan both Arab and Jewish residents of this area were referred to as "Palestinians".
It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of an Arab Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. "Palestinians" are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion.
Much of the Arab population in this area actually migrated into Israel and Judea and Samaria from the surrounding Arab countries in the past 100 years. The rebirth of Israel was accompanied by economic prosperity for the region. Arabs migrated to this area to find employment and enjoy the higher standard of living. In documents not more than hundred years, the area is described as a scarcely populated region. Jews by far were the majority in Jerusalem over the small Arab minority. Until the Oslo agreement the major source of income for Arab residents was employment in the Israeli sector. To this day, many Arabs try to migrate into Israel with various deceptions to become a citizen of Israel.
Even the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat himself, is not a "Palestinian". He was born in Egypt. The famous "Palestinian covenant" states that Palestinians are "an integral part of the Arab nation" -- a nation which is blessed with a sparsely populated land mass 660 times the size of tiny Israel (Judea, Samaria and Gaza included). - http://www.science.co.il/History-Palestine.php
So you're actually in favor of the Arabs driving away the Jewish natives and taking over their very small, populous, and not oil-rich land. That's repulsive, and the closer analogy to European conquest of Native Americans. You've bought a lot of antisemitic lies. Equivocating Semitic languages with antisemitism is actually a symptom of antisemitic apologists. Learn some history...or at least try harder to not sound like an unabashed antisemite.