“how should homeland security COMBAT ATI MUSLIM SENTIMENTS”!!!!

Are you people crazy?! How about homeland security first deals with combating Jihad extremists living in the united states not to mention the rest of the world, with a deep hatred and disdain for anything remotely western or non Muslim, ie. ATI-WESTERN sentiments. Islam is a RELIGION, not culture, not race, not ethnicity, etc…it is first and foremost an IDEOLOGY. Sharia is a totalitarian political ideologist system (institution) of oppression with the same strong anti-non Muslim sentiment. Unless your really good at multi tasking I propose we take care of one problem before taking on another. Frankly, our plate is full.

Even if it is in their it was in the old testament. Most people know that their is a big difference between the two testaments. Read the new testament then tell me that God wants to kill all non-believers.

Let me ask you- as an athiest (sorry for assuming you were a Christian, BTW. You sounded kind of like one. *headslap*) do you judge your own sect of the population by the radicals who think religious people should be prevented from having children, and should be forced to 'acclimate' (in other words- believe what 'science' tells us) whether we want to or no?

Should I judge all athiests by that? I have heard athiests say this. They're insane. But they are no less insane than the Muslims who state that all people who do not believe Allah should be killed. Or the Christians who say abortion doctors should be slaughtered whole-sale.

That is not right ,as I am sure we can all agree. We should not judge an entire set of people just because a few take a couple commands/ideas out of context.

And yes. I do judge each secular world view by its founding documents / books. If you don't take a religion / philosophy to heart, then don't claim to be a member of it, that's disingenuous. Take the texts literally, if you don't then you're admitting that there's an external set of criteria that supersede the text as the founding principles of your world view. So any non-literalist really believes in something that they have not bothered to clearly define. That's fine if you're still searching. but if you don't know what you believe, then what right do you have to take the religion of faithful people and delude it and call yourself a Christian / Muslim / etc?

I actually own a paper copy of the Koran (or Qur'an, which looks so much cooler. ) and am planning on reading it soon. I want to find out for myself if the radicals are merely taking Mohammad's words out of context, or if his book actually says that. ^.^

And I'm not a Christian. I'm an Objectivist.

I myself have never read the Koran. It's on my to-do list. But let's admit it- if we take some passages in the Bible, we can say that the Bible condones violence against unbelievers. What about the passages in the OT where God talks about killing entire nations? So obviously, God thinks genocide is OK in certain circumstances.

But I'm pretty sure that neither you nor I believe that- but that does not make us un-Christian.