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Peter Hendra

On 14 Apr 2007 18:02:32 -0700, wrote:

Joe,
Pray forgive my ignorance but is this any difference from Christian
fundamentalists and "extremists"?

Is not it their stated aim to ensure that the Message of Christ is
spread to all corners of the world before the "last days"so that God's
Kingdom may be established upon Earth? I am thinking here of such as
Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Pentecostals and
the like with their missionary zeal (with all due respect to their
beliefs and the sincerity with which they hold them).

In twiddling my shortwave radio knobs in order to receive such as the
BBC, I am innundated with what I would consider "Christian
Fundamentalism", often of a strange single leader style, most calling
for monetary donations, and most with American voices and a warped
view of the message of Christ and the Second Coming. Try listening
sometime.

Islam does not need me to defend it, nor do I feel offended but even a
cursory study of history will show that it is Christianity, not Islam
that has used force, fear and the threat of death to covert people.

Again, perhaps it might bear contemplating Jesus's injunction to take
the beam from thine own eye before one takes the mote from thy
brother's.

Just wondering in my ignorance.....

regards
Peter

In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-
evident
ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and
Islamic law,
the Shari'a. Thier goal is the extension of the Islamic territory
across the globe, and the establishment of a worldwide 'caliphate'
founded on Shari'a law."