We can't leave because of religion? Christianity has existed longer than Islam therefore .... and both are derived from Judaism. Should we all therefore perfect ourselves and become Jews? And even older perhaps one of the pagan religions. There are some Christian fundamentalists who like the idea of Zionism because it fulfills the prophetic scriptures. Strange you would select Israel as your center when early Christianity moved away from Palestine as they could gain not many converts there as Judaism had a firm hold on the inhabitants. Instead early Christians found more converts in Greece, so why not cannonize the early Christian churches in Greece and Asia Minor?
In what country was Jesus born, raised and died? Palestine/Israel. Because the man who the Christian religion is based on lived in Palestine/Israel all of Christianity is tied to the country.
When Pres Carter stated the ME was in our national interest he did not mean for religious reasons. He meant for geo-eco-political reasons i.e. protect Israel, control the oil, stop Communism's advances. No where does he say anything about staying in the ME for religious reasons.
Pres. Carter was a very devout, if not a born again, Christian. His religious beliefs had an effect on his actions. If you don't believe me I still have the
Playboy magazine in which candidate Carter talked of how Christianity was a very important part of his life. Such this paraphrased comment of his "If being a Christian were to be a crime there would be enough evidence to convict me."
Strange as I can find verses in the Qur'an which state Muslims do not hate the west.
Where in the Qur'an are those verses?
I found what would appear to be your source of information. 1,400 Years of Christian/Islamic Struggle: An Analysis
Religious racism at it's best.
Thanks for the link. I had not heard of
U.S. News and World Report before you told me about it. But even after a quick reading of the article in
CBN, often a very biased source, I can see that what the article says is not "religious racism" but the truth. I have studied religions for a long time and what the
CBN article says I have read in sources such as the 1958 Encyclopeadia Britannica,
Islam by Caesar E. Farah, Ph.D., University of Minnesota and two books from the Nations of the World series, Turkey (Volume XXVI) and Ancient History (Volume XXX), published in 1898. What are your sources for the claim that the article is "religious racism"?
