LH .. Actually you are very correct about what the Muslims did offer to society ... they where the fountainead of advancement in many, many areas ... they where also very tolerant of other religions, the Christian Crusades put a dent into that tolerance ... when we argure here about today's Islam, unfortuantely the current fundimentalist seems to be the focus ... but unfortuantely that is the movement which is sweeping all of Islam in reality .... and fundimentalists, being what they are in all religions, drag civilization back to the stone age ... overall, it is a situation in the world today that must somehow come to a reconcilliation .... how it will or can be done, I dunno .. but the world as a whole has to arrive at a remedy soon or later.

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