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The myth of Muslims going around converting others for 1000 years is used as propaganda by Islam-haters who subscribe to the Nazi belief that if a lie is spoken loud enough and spoken repeatedly, it will be believed. Anyway there is no blame on you as you fell trap to their lies
and believed in them uncritically.

Anyway here is a refreshing quote from Uri Avnery , a veteran Israeli peace activist, journalist , former member of the Knesset and leader of Gush Shalom .

“Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times ‘by the sword’ to get them to abandon their faith.

The story about ‘spreading the faith by the sword’ is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims – the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna.”

http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/muhammad’s-sword/

Do you have any problem with the font size of my site ? Is it small ? If your pc’s or laptops have higher resolutions than the font size is bit small , I believe…

Here are some quotes that are enough to refute this myth:

1. M. K. GANDHI: “…I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and his own mission. These, and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every trouble.” YOUNG INDIA, 1924

2. EDWARD GIBBON: “The greatest success of Mohammed’s life was effected by sheer moral force without the stroke of a sword.” HISTORY OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London, 1870

3. A. S. TRITTON: “The picture of the Muslim soldier advancing with a sword in one hand and the Qur’an in the other is quite false.” ISLAM, London, 1951, p. 21

4. DE LACY O’LEARY: “History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslim, sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.” ISLAM AT CROSSROADS, London, 1923, p. 8

5. K. S. RAMAKRISHNA RAO: “My problem to write this monograph is easier because we are not generally fed now on that (distorted) kind of history and much time need not be spent on pointing out our misrepresentations of Islam. The theory of Islam and sword, for instance, is not heard now in any quarter worth the name. The principle of Islam, there is no compulsion in religion, is well known.” MOHAMMED THE PROPHET OF ISLAM, Riyadh, 1989, p. 4

6. JAMES A. MICHENER: “No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam…The West has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword. But no modern scholar accepts that idea, and the Qur’an is explicit in support of the freedom of conscience.” ISLAM – THE MISUNDERSTOOD RELIGION, READERS’ DIGEST (American Edition) May 1955

7. LAWRENCE E. BROWNE: “Incidentally these well-established facts dispose of the idea so widely fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever they went, forced people to accept Islam at the point of the sword.” THE PROSPECTS OF ISLAM, London, 1944.

8. A Christian missionary, Sir Thomas W. Arnold says:

“…of any organized attempt to force the acceptance of Islam on the non-Muslim population, or of any systematic persecution intended to stamp out the Christian religion, we hear nothing. Had the caliphs chosen to adopt either course of action, they might have swept away Christianity as easily as Ferdinand and Isabella drove Islam out of Spain, or Louis XIV made Protestantism penal in France, or the Jews were kept out of England for 350 years. The Eastern Churches in Asia were entirely cut off from communion with the rest of Christendom throughout which no one would have been found to lift a finger on their behalf, as heretical communions. So that the very survival of these Churches to the present day is a strong proof of the generally tolerant attitude of Mohammedan [sic] governments towards them”

The Preaching of Islam, A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith, Sir Thomas W. Arnold, Westminster A. Constable & Co., London, 1896, p. 80.

9 .”Against unbelievers he (Muhammad) enjoined his followers to undertake a holy warefare, but only when attacked. The earlier Moslem[sic] leaders did not try to impose their faith upon other nations”

The History of Christianity in the Light of Modern Knowledge, A Collective Work, Harcourt Brace and co., p. 520

10. Also read the article : http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/muhammad’s-sword/ posted on my blog

As far as obama is concerned, since he accepts homosexuality and aborition (especially late term), he doesn’t worship the real God. And he is not a real Christian. Those kind of “changes” in the world/society will be delt with by God in His justice. Put straight, obama is one of the largest heritics this country has ever seen so far, in the political areana.

Israel must be made to take action against these thugs - but I’m not holding my breath that the Israeli government will rein in their dogs of war

However, the benefits reaped by Israel from maintaining the situation in Gaza far exceed any real threats to its “security.”

This is it! Israel never wanted peace or intended to conduct peace talks. The only “peace” deal Israel is interested in is another piece of land to steal or annex. With the photo above showing Israelis belligerent and animal-like behavior towards a civilian, no wonder Palestinians wanted to throw the Israeli into the sea! And they should.

ATW

You see….we believe that every human being is born with a “fitrah”(instinct), and in order to kill someone or to commit brutalities a person has to fight mightily to overcome their “fitrah” which keeps telling them that killing innocents is wrong. Its only when people are inculcated with the notions that glorify violence and to kill that they change….

Image 1 : The caption is an actual paraphrased comment from an Israeli soldier.Please read the whole article .These “brave men” from their own mouth admit to do more than “defending themselves” and “protecting” their nation.

Here’s some “trivia” for you…..take a look at what these “brave men” do to “protect” themselves .

Wilful killing of civilians
http://palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article459

Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Jails
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article10

Looting orphanage
http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/even-palestinian-orphans-are-victims-of-israel’s-punitive-measures/

http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/an-open-letter-to-israeli-defense-minister-ehud-barak/

Torturing Journalists
http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/mohammed-omer-from-triumph-to-torture/

PICTURE 1
- the soldier has his gun in “frosty” posture (meaning that is the way you hold your gun when you are not going to fire it)
- the gun is not even pointed at the girl
-the girl does not look to be terrorized at all
- finger not on trigger
-one hand on gun supporting it
PICTURE 2
- idf soldier is guarding location
-gun in frosty position
-childern do not appear to be afraid
-gun not pointed at kid
-soldier not doing anything to endanger life
-finger not on trigger

*if you are going to bash the brave men who protect a nation enclosed by other nations that are bent on destroying it, get your facts straight. stop embelishing and stretching the truth.

Pope Benedict, please support Palestinian Christians!

http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/pope-benedict-please-support-palestinian-christians/

I feel that this article should be converted to a page on this site .
What do you think ?

However I will see if I can get someone to comment on this.

Could you kindly comment, whether my details are correct in a dissident essay concerning the recent scaling up of production in the Israeli high Tech companies in:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-Jews-statistics.htm ?

However, if you are only after Jihad against Eretz Israel by the means of media war after the conventional weapons were not succesful, please do not bother. I don’t want to have anything to do with any holy war - wars are not holy.

E.g. “…Before the Second Intifada, there were nearly 200 Israeli companies listed in the Nasdaq, at the Intifada the count dropped to 70. (The number is still greater than from all the European countries combined). It is said that the dollars are green since the Americans pull them down from the tree raw and fresh. The start-ups are imported straight from the garage, and scaling up of production in the “conflict hotspot” has been considered impossible. But the new Millennium has brought a change in tide.

As an example, the supranational Intel transferred the mass production of Centricon-processors to Israel, where ~20% of citizens possess university decrees (ranking 3rd in the world) but where the environment respects patents and are not plagiating every item they produce to others like the rocketting China. Intel was also offered an overall tax rate of 10%, which is about three times lower than that of US.

Also, the biggest generic drug factory in the world was recently established in Israel. Generating US$7 billion in annual revenues, Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA) is the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical company. That is: to cure people with less money. TEVA makes generic versions of brand-name antibiotics, heart drugs, heartburn medications, and more - in all close to 200 global generic products, 700 compounds, and more than 2800 dosage forms and formulations. TEVA’s pharmaceuticals are used in some 20% of U.S. generic drug prescriptions. Examples of TEVA’s generics include lower-cost equivalents of such blockbusters as anti-depressant Prozac and cholesterol drug Mevacor. Nevertheless, in biotechnology and original drug development, about 400 experimental Israeli drugs have been approved or accepted in clinical phases.

The population of Arabs under the Israeli government increased ten-fold in only 57 years. Palestinian life expectancy increased from 48 to 72 years in 1967-95. The death rate decreased by over 2/3 in 1970-90 and the Israeli medical campaigns decreased the child death rate from a level of 60 per 1000 in 1968 to 15 per 1000 in 2000 at the Westbank. (An analogous figure was 64 in Iraq, 40 in Egypt, 23 in Jordan, and 22 in Syria in 2000). During 1967-88 the amount of comprehensive schoold and second level polytechnic institutes for the Arabs was increased by 35%. During 1970-86 the proportion of Palestinian women at the West Bank and Gaza not having gone to school decreased from 67 % to 32 %. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in West Bank and Gaza increased in 1968-1991 from 165 US dollars to 1715 dollars (compare with 1630$ in Turkey, 1440$ in Tunis, 1050$ in Jordan, 800$ in Syria, 600$ in Egypt. and 400$ in Yemen)…”

Recovering from hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of the brain,
Pauli Ojala, evolutionary critic
Biochemist, drop-out (MSci-Master of Sciing)

Mazin is exactly right and you do have a distorted vision of reality EVEN when Israeli historians themselves prove the fact that Israel terrorized the Palestinians. Forget Historians and look at the thug Ben Gurion’s remarks and quotes. It’s documented. The likes of you (and CAMERA) try to distort the facts to “erase” the truth. I guess Israelis have not yet learned from history… that neither the Holocaust nor the Shoah in Palestine can be erased!

See: http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/israeli-terrorism-massacre-of-deir-yassin/

http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/keeping-out-the-arabs-palestinians/

ATW

Amnesty International’s 2008 Report on the situation of Human Rights in Israel and the Occupied Paestinian Territories

http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/regions/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territories

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL :Israel and the Occupied Territories
House demolition and destruction of land and property. Executive Summary

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/040/2004/en/dom-MDE150402004en.html

Thank you for repeating another common propaganda of the Zionist enterprise . It is time that you enlighten yourself with what really happened after the Oslo Records .

[Taken from the ORIGIN OF ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT]

THE FLAWS OF THE OSLO RECORDS

“The United States has been a terrible ‘sponsor’ of the peace process. It has succumbed to Israeli pressure on everything, abandoning the principle of land for peace (no U.N. Resolution says anything about returning a tiny percentage, as opposed to all of the land Israel seized in 1967), pushing the lifeless Palestinian leadership into deeper and deeper holes to suit Netanyahu’s preposterous demands.

“The fact is that Palestinians are dramatically worse off than they were before the Oslo process began. Their annual income is less than half of what it was in 1992; they are unable to travel from place to place; more of their land has been taken than ever before; more settlements exist; and Jerusalem is practically lost…

“Every house demolishment, every expropriated dunum, every arrest and torture, every barricade, every closure, every gesture of arrogance and intended humiliation simply revives the past and reenacts Israel’s offenses against the Palestinian spirit, land, body politic. To speak about peace in such a context is to try to reconcile the irreconcilable.”
Edward Said in “The Progressive”, March 1998

THE ROOTS OF INTIFADA 2000

“The explosion of Palestinian anger last September 29 put an end to the charade begun at Oslo seven years ago and labelled the ‘peace process.’ In 1993 Palestinians, along with millions of people around the world, were led to hope that Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza within five years and that Palestinians would then be free to establish an independent state. Meanwhile both sides would work out details of Israel’s withdrawal and come to an agreement on the status of Jerusalem, the future of Israeli settlements, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

“Because of the lopsided balance of power, negotiations went nowhere and the Palestinians’ hopes were never fulfilled. The Israelis, regardless of which government was in power, quibbled over wording, demanded revisions of what had previously been agreed to, then refused to abide by the new agreements. Meanwhile successive governments were demolishing Palestinian homes, taking over Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem for Jewish housing, and seizing Palestinian land for new settlements. A massive new highway network built after 1993 on confiscated Palestinian land isolates Palestinian towns and villages from one another and from Jerusalem, forcing many Palestinians to go through Israeli checkpoints just to get to the next town…

“According to President Clinton and most of the media, Prime Minister Ehud Barak conceded at Camp David virtually everything the Palestinians wanted, and Yasser Arafat threw away the opportunity for peace by rejecting Barak’s offer. In fact Arafat could not accept it. Barak, backed by Clinton, wanted assurance of Israel’s continued strategic control over the West Bank and Gaza, including air space and borders, and insisted that Israel retain permanent sovereignty over most of East Jerusalem, including Haram Al-Sharif. This was a deal no Arab would accept.

“As the protests grew, army helicopters rocketed neighborhoods in several Palestinian cities, destroying entire city blocks and causing scores of casualties. Israeli tanks surrounded Palestinian towns with their guns turned toward the town. Armed Israeli civilians within the Green Line rampaged through Arab neighborhoods destroying Arab property and shouting “Death of Arabs’…Israeli police who were quick to use bullets against Palestinian stone throwers failed to restrain the Israelis and instead fired at Arabs trying to defend their homes. Two Arabs were killed.

“The uprising was undoubtedly fueled by the resentment caused by years of daily abuse and humiliation under Israeli occupation. On September 6, a group of Israeli border police stopped three Palestinian workers as they were returning home from Israel and, for no reason at all, subjected them to 40 minutes of torture. The San Francisco Chronicle reported on September 19 that the policemen punched the three men, slammed their heads against a stone wall, forced them to swallow their own blood, and cursed their mothers and sisters. The incident only came to light because the policemen took photographs of themselves with their victims, holding their heads by the hair like hunting trophies. Israeli human rights workers said such beatings are a common occurance, but they are seldom reported.”
Rachelle Marshall, “The Peace Process Ends in Protests and Blood”, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2000.

“ISRAEL HAS FAILED THE TEST”

“In the Oslo Agreements, Israel and the West put Palestinian leadership to a test: In exchange for an Israeli promise to gradually dismantle the mechanisms of the occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian leadership promised to stop every act of violence and terror immediately. For that purpose, all the apparatus for security coordination was created, more and more Palestinian jails were built, and demonstrators were barred from approaching the [Jewish] settlements.

“The two sides agreed on a period of five years for completion of the new deployment and the negotiations on a final agreement. The Palestinian leadership agreed again and again to extend its trial period…From their perspective, Israel was also put to a test: Was Israel really giving up its attitude of superiority and domination, built up in order to keep the Palestinian people under its control?

“More than seven years have gone by and Israel has security and administrative control of 61.2% of the West Bank and about 20% of the Gaza Strip and security control over another 26.8% of the West Bank. This control is what has enabled Israel to double the number of settlers in 10 years..and to seal an entire nation into restricted areas, imprisoned in a network of bypass roads meant for Jews only…

“Israel has failed the test. Palestinians control of 12% of the West Bank does not mean that Israel has given up its attitude of superiority and domination…The bloodbath that has been going on for three weeks is the natural outcome of seven years of [Israeli] lying and deception.”

Israeli journalist Amira Hass, “Israel Has Failed The Test,” in Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, 10/18/00.

So the Intifada was a natural result of the brutal oppression of Palestinians ever since the so called “Peace Process” began.

// The truth is, only Palestinians can be blamed for what is happening in Palestine, try living in peace, Israel will be more than willing to live in peace as well.//

Let’s see who are the real trouble makers .

“Rarely do American journalists explore the ample reasons to believe that the United States is part of the oft-decried cycle of violence. Nor, in the first half of October, was there much media analysis of the fact that the violence overwhelmingly struck at the Palestinian people.

“Within a period of days, several dozen Palestinians were killed by heavily armed men in uniform — often described by CNN and other news outlets as ‘Israeli security forces’. Under the circumstances, it’s a notably benign-sounding term for an army that shoots down protestors.

“As for the rock-throwing Palestinians, I have never seen or heard a single American news account describing them as ‘pro democracy demonstrators.’ Yet that would be an appropriate way to refer to people who — after more than three decades of living under occupation — are in the streets to demand self determination.

“While Israeli soldiers and police, with their vastly superior firepower, do most of the killing…American news stories highlighted the specious ultimatums issued by Prime Minister Ehud Barak as he demanded that Palestinians end the violence — while uniformed Israelis under his authority continue to kill them…

“Like quite a few other Jewish Americans, I’m apalled by what Israel is doing with U.S. Tax dollars. Meanwhile, as journalists go along to get along, they diminish the humanity of us all.”

Norman Solomon, “Media Spin Remains In Sync With Israeli Occupation,” from FAIR’s Media Beat, October 14, 2000.

More on Israeli Terrorism over here

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/terrorism.html

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL”S DOCUMENT ON TERRORIST ACTIVITIES COMMITED BY JEWISH SETTLERS

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/099/2004/en/dom-MDE150992004en.html

Persecution of Palestinian Christians by Israeli Forces :
http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/persecution-of-palestinian-christians/

Also visit

http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/hebron-world’s-neglect-of-a-great-injustice/

As a final note , It is comforting that in spite of people like you , there exist moral and civilised Jews in America and abroad who recognise the oppression and damage done by Israel to the Palestinians .

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html#conc2

//The Palestinians like to cry that they are victims, but the truth you fail to recognize is that the Palestinians idea of peace is the complete destruction of Israel. //

Your comment shows how much morally bankrupt you really are.

Bigots like you want Palestinians to sit quitely while there lands are being
occupied by the zionists , to construct settlements , and witness ethnic cleansing of their people.

You should read this : The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
1. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
2. http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/falling-from-heaven-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/

Mazin

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