Montalban
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I have shown perspective.
I haven't said that all Moslems are terrorists. Or, that all Moslems support terrorism.
I have stated that Islam supports it.
It's based on the fact it was practiced by their founder and has been used by Moslems throughout their history as a means of spreading their faith.
That's what I call 'causal links'.
To look at it another way, and this seems to be one more people understand - Nazism is an ideology that is inherently violent and racist. This doesn't mean that all Nazis killed Jews. In fact one famous Nazi Party member saved over a 1,000 of them - Oscar Schindler.
But I would say it's an error of judgment to say "Ocar Schindler saved Jews therefore Nazism wasn't anti-Jewish".
There's a difference here between a person and an ideology.
Another way of looking at this, when I was a Catholic I thought it was Catholic dogma that the Immaculate Conception referred to the conception of Jesus (it doesn't, it refers to Mary's conception). I've met a great many Catholics who think that, as I used to. They are (like I was) mistaken. Therefore citing a fact that Catholics believe something doesn't mean that Catholicism supports it.
If you ever want to read a great source text, then you can't go past "The Legacy of Jihad" by Andrew Bostom. He shows violent Jihad supported by each of the four major Islamic schools of jurisprudence and he shows consistent commentary by Islamic scholars throughout the history of Islam supporting the use of violence as a means of spreading their faith.
Most people however don't want to deal with this. What about you?
For the most part those that come here to address the thread choose instead to personalise this - to make observations about my motives, etc.
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