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<blockquote data-quote="It&amp;#039;sThatGuy" data-source="post: 1713963" data-attributes="member: 141489">First of all, you can&#039;t use the word &#039;antisemitism&#039; for something Muslims do because Arabic people are also semitic.&nbsp; 8^)&nbsp; The word &#039;anti-Jewish&#039; sounds really clumsy, though. Or anti-un-Muslim.The leaders and founders of all three Abrahamic religions taught nothing but tolerance and peaceful coexistence, Jesus being the most explicit on that point.&nbsp; All three religions purport to teach tolerance and universal love. So when you see these religions fostering hate, that&#039;s not the religion, that&#039;s POLITICS.&nbsp; Religion and politics have gone hand in hand probably since prehistoric times.&nbsp; Religion is used by political leaders, twisted to their purpose, to justify intolerance, genocide, exclusion, invasion and conquest, etc. etc.&nbsp; But religion is never driving the process, it&#039;s always the handmaiden to political agendas and goals.&nbsp; A truly godly person, when hearing &quot;God is on our side&quot; would know that was a distortion.&nbsp; God is on -both- sides.Muslims throughout the world today have good reason to be resentful of the western nations.&nbsp; They are less isolated than they used to be, and they know what&#039;s going on.&nbsp; They are angry (and justifiably so, I think)&nbsp; that western nations have redrawn the borders of their countries, picked their leaders for them, and stolen their national wealth.&nbsp; But the Qu&#039;ran does not teach suicide and murder and terrorism as techniques for restoring justice in the world.&nbsp; Political leaders have grown up from among them who use this anger for their own purposes, but again this is politics, not religion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="It'sThatGuy, post: 1713963, member: 141489"] First of all, you can't use the word 'antisemitism' for something Muslims do because Arabic people are also semitic. 8^) The word 'anti-Jewish' sounds really clumsy, though. Or anti-un-Muslim. The leaders and founders of all three Abrahamic religions taught nothing but tolerance and peaceful coexistence, Jesus being the most explicit on that point. All three religions purport to teach tolerance and universal love. So when you see these religions fostering hate, that's not the religion, that's POLITICS. Religion and politics have gone hand in hand probably since prehistoric times. Religion is used by political leaders, twisted to their purpose, to justify intolerance, genocide, exclusion, invasion and conquest, etc. etc. But religion is never driving the process, it's always the handmaiden to political agendas and goals. A truly godly person, when hearing "God is on our side" would know that was a distortion. God is on -both- sides. Muslims throughout the world today have good reason to be resentful of the western nations. They are less isolated than they used to be, and they know what's going on. They are angry (and justifiably so, I think) that western nations have redrawn the borders of their countries, picked their leaders for them, and stolen their national wealth. But the Qu'ran does not teach suicide and murder and terrorism as techniques for restoring justice in the world. Political leaders have grown up from among them who use this anger for their own purposes, but again this is politics, not religion. [/QUOTE]

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