True religion

Written by r a
The latest outbreak of Muslim rage (in response to the Pope’s remarks, that is, in case there has been another one between the time of writing and posting this) is exactly as unedifying as all the others that preceded it. But it has turned up the heat a bit on the simmering discussion about the true nature of Islam. One side is the somewhat politically incorrect view that Islam is aggressive by nature, expressed for example, by Samuel Huntington’s (in)famous observation that “Islam has bloody borders.” And certainly the list of conflicts all over the world in which Muslims make up one (or more) sides is long enough: Afghanistan, Chechnya, Darfur, Iraq, Kashmir, Lebanon, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Somalia, southern Thailand; to which can be added the recent, atrocity-filled Algerian civil war, the Iran-Iraq war and the invasion of Kuwait. Plus 9-11 and the global campaign of terror against infidels. (For more details, see here ). Emperor Manuel II Paleologus, if not Benedict XVI himself, would presumably see this as a vindication of his critical opinions. Controversialists like Mark Steyn are likewise of the mind that Islam is warlike at heart:
....(Continued on My Conservative Dreamworld)