On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:35:31 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I wouldn't say 99% - maybe 60% at the outside.

However, it is a political/theological religion and not in the least
bit secular in either concept - the two concepts are intertwined. The
fundamentalist Imans hold sway over a large portion of their folk and
that is where the danger lies.

Tom, in places like Central America, Catholic priests have long been
involved in politics, sometimes for better, sometimes not. And, I don't mean
they were just having lunch with the dictator du jour. And, they practically
ran the Phillippines before we arrived to do whatever the hell we thought we
were doing there.

I don't deny that. Catholics were both oppressors and liberators.

However, we're not discussing US if you will. We are discussing THEM.
I am fully aware of the atrocities generated in the name of Christian
beliefs, but Christians have moved beyond that where the
fundamentalist Islamic states have not.

Just because christians in the past were responsible does not make the
atrocities of Islam now somehow correct.