I want to thank you for your comments here and on my earlier post. I find them to be fair, reasoned, intelligent, I truly mean that.

I was wondering whether I should even bother responding to my detractors here. Against my better judgment, I decided to pick up the gauntlet anyway. I will probably regret it, but having faced up to the challenge thrown me I, will attempt to answer.
a) Nowhere have I ever said, implied or meant to imply that all or even a majority of Muslims are in any way associated with terror. If they were, the world’s demographics would be very different these days!
b) The fact remains, as Elif points that a tiny minority of Muslims are terrorists but a majority of terrorists (at least the ones on the news) are so called Muslims. I do wish, however, that the Muslim majority would be far more vocal in condemning all and every act of terror - regardless of victims’ creed or ethnicity - and do so publicly. Sadly, that has hardly been the case.
c) I am well aware that historically more Jews were killed by Christians than by Muslims.
d) The fact remains, however, that nowadays no respected Christian priest or Jewish rabbi actively preaches the destruction of Muslims or anybody else, for that matter! They would be immeditely, universally and unequivocally censured, in no uncertain terms. Whereas, some very well known figures of Islam - Dr Al-Qharadawi immediately springs to mind, as just one of many examples - have already said that the day would come when "every tree and every stone will say to Muslims, ‘There is a Jew hiding behind me, KILL HIM!’"
d) War or taking innocent lives can never be the way to spread a religion on earth. I wholeheartedly agree! …this is just as simple as that and those who are doing such acts are never going to be representatives of me or my religion. I wholeheartedly agree!

I hereby humbly extend the invitation that my Arab French (Moroccan) co-blogger Samuel, has already made to anyone including Muslims to guest post our blog http://www.freedomscost.net. If anyone is interested whether pro or con you can please contact us at: freedom@peresfondateurs.com.

I do not know about Chaim but I think that there is something deep in this issue dating back centuries maybe, where Jews happen not to like Muslims much (this is just my humble opinion and I am not making a generalization at all and I agree that nowadays they may have a point).

Guys, we are very well aware that a minority of Muslims are terrorists but a majority of terrorists (at least the ones on the news) are so called Muslims and we are also well aware that we can not get our voices heard as true Muslims but let me tell you this, we hate these acts of terrorism as much as you do, we hate these murderers to be associated with Islam and we hate the loss of innocent lives regardless of their religions.

Jihad, as frequently used by these dictators, has nothing to do with what they are trying to show it is. If you read religion of Islam ever, you would see that forcing people into believing in God is useless. Hz Muhammed, had to change location in Saudi Arabia together with people believing in Islam in 7th century just because they were being tortured or killed by the anti-religious group. War or taking innocent lives can never be the way to spread a religion on earth. Believe it or not, this is just as simple as that and those who are doing such acts are never going to be representatives of me or my religion.

I had many conversations with him about Islam, Judaism, and Atheism. I’m personally an agnostic but Chaim never tried to proselytize me. He is not a bigot. Take it or leave it.

About his “islamophobic” of thinking -I must admit I have thought about it very often - I think it’s a very wrong way to understand his writings. Of course, Chaim is full of anger (almost as much as certain Muslims about what they call "infidels") and pain. Yes, Chaim is a right wing Republican but I guess you’re all mature enough to find certain truths behind the flames of anger. I can only testify he never tried to kill me because my parents were devout Muslims.

Nowhere, anywhere in his writings on the blog we both own, does he attribute murderous traits to all Muslims, often he’s written proudly about his friendships with many a Muslim AND we have a standing invitation to anyone including any Muslim who wants to write a guest post for our blog http://www.freedomscost.net. If anyone is interested whether pro or con you can contact us at: freedom@peres-fondateurs.com.

I think Selin hits the nail on the head (we agree for once!), and Kemal.  Chaim, I could compile a whole list of bad things self-proclaimed Christians have done recently - need I start with the Westboro Baptist Church denigrating American troops to promote their homophobia? - but it wouldn’t mean Christians are any more culpable of such acts than Muslims are by those "acting in the name of Islam.

Acts by these people are simply more reported because of the War on Terror and the acts of 9/11 and Britain, Spain, etc. still fresh on our minds.

And I don’t want anyone to even start on "well, look at all the countries employing sharia law."  I’m not saying its right, but need I remind those people of how Christian states were not so many centuries ago?  They’re foreign to us now, but they were there.

Criticism of specific acts is okay, but to try and blanket the entire religion because of the bad apples really is not okay in my mind.

As for Christian crimes committed in the name of religion, they abound-and, not just against Muslims and Jews, but other Christians as well.  Just recently, in the U.S.,  a whole sect of Christians that was raided because the men were having sex with, and marrying minor females under the age of consent.  That is a crime against the minor child in the U.S.

There are many crimes committed against minorities by white  supremecist Christians throughout Europe –not to mention the catastrophic destruction wrought by western Christian imperialism on Africa and throughout Asia.  There was also the gift of the inquisition and the pograms by Orthodox Christians promulgated within the last 100 years against both Muslims and Jews.

Those who are enlightened, understand that these types of dispicable racist acts by Christians do not reflect upon ALL Christians.  The same goes for Muslims and Jews.

Chaim, this article you wrote is less than worthless junk.  It serves only to  promote a primitive view of the world in which hate begets more hate, which only serves to perpetuate violence and your bigotry.  Disgusting.

For instance, I’ve stated that Obama will be a third Carter term naively appeasing terrorists while alienating allies, if you’ve been following. It doesn’t get more hawkish than that.

Thus I find Chaim’s posts more offensive precisely because I condemn Islamic terror as much as I do. IF I sympathized with terrorists, Chaim’s writings would indeed be representing the "truth" about me. So that’s why I feel he insulting me, and he is engaging in serious misrepresentation of Muslims around the world by putting all of them in the same basket. If you don’t believe that he is stereotyping Muslims, it must be because you yourself stereotype all Muslims around the world and don’t even take notice when someone else does that more cogently and on a more consistent basis.

When you contend that "the truth" about Muslims as revealed by Chaim is so inadmissable, so horrendous, you yourself are putting your stamp of approval on Chaim’s approach. So why do you even try to defend Chaim by saying that he’s not painting all Muslims around the world in the same manner? Why say he has on occasion - gulp - said "good" things about Muslims? Maybe if he felt that way, he would have said something to that effect by now.

Clearly your defense of his "blog" is both unnecessary and misinforming. Brandi, I haven’t been able to exercise my freedom to object to such stereotyping without being further berated and condescended. I have been told by someone to not *read* the kind of hate literature than Chaim engages in about the specific group that I belong to. A few have "accused" me of engaging in "personal" criticism of Chaim rather than responding to his posts. Yet someone else has deplored the fact that everyone owns a computer nowadays. So daring to respond to such bigotry and hypocrisy AND racism takes guts indeed.

But more importantly, as much as I condemn Islamic terrorism, I also condemn the justification of violence towards innocent Arabs and Muslims via such dehumanization of *all* Muslims that Chaim engages in. I also happen to condemn it when the lives of innocent Muslims or Arabs are worth less than the lives of innocent Jews or Christians. Chaim has given several examples above alluding to murders of Christians and Jews by Islamic extremists.

Aren’t there innocent Arabs and Muslims that are continuously being killed by both Jewish AND Christian armies? AND in much
greater numbers? Yes or no? But the beauty of Chaim’s propaganda is that he paints such a deplorable picture of Muslims at large precisely to make the audience believe that there are NO innocent Muslims. Brilliant indeed. Very reminiscent of someone else.

So no, I won’t accept it as sincere when Chaim writes an essay on the "humanity" of Jews whereas it is very clear to me that he is denying both Arabs and Muslims the very humanity that he so passionately writes about when it comes to his own "people".

How they let everyone own a computer these days !

Here comes marc. Show your work or polls, marc, because them’s fighting words.

I think any approval depends on the perceived mission. They are approved if they defend against occupation or abuse against arabs, but are frowned upon if they are seen as selfish cults like AQ.

There is, however, something missing from the article, namely that there is widespread sympathy for the terrorists among the Muslim mainstream.  Fading, perhaps, but still prevalent.

That’s not the case when comparing mainstream Christians to Hitler’s Nazis or today’s skinhead gangs.

Another significant difference:  many Islamic terrorists believe that they’re true Muslims, whereas Aryan punks know they’re not Christians.

Pray tell, why do you find truth so inadmissible, so horrendous? Does it hit close to home? Enlighten us, please!