The Religion of Peace

This is just rich. Pope Benedict quoted a Byzantine emperor in a speech as saying, "He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."' Obviously this is a reason for the Muslim's to riot. I would like to have that statement disproved. If we relied only on what happens everyday in the Muslim world, this statement would be proved. Maybe the statement was said in bad taste, but the idea of the Pope was not for the statement. I am listening to the BBC as I write this and a Muslim is saying that we should not have freedom of speech--that those who are form Nazi ideals should be silenced. That we don't understand Islam. Well teach me. Make me understand. Make me understand why the Muslim countries in the Middle East and elsewhere are so violent. Make me understand why so much is done in the name of God by Muslims that is evil and base. The argument that there are Christians who use religion for violence isn't a real argument. Have they killed thousands for the cause of God? Why can the west not even have intellectual arguments while the middle east can decend into violence and we are at fault. Riots over comments by the Pope and over cartoons show that the Middle East is heading to a fork in the road. Will they choose total destruction or will they pull from the edge. Eventually the world's patience with these "Muslims" who pervert religion in favor of violence will run out and the real action will start. Not the small attacks that the United States has made, but the fight for their own survival. This rant is from a man who is sick of having his country's hands tied while the Muslim world tears itself apart. This from a man who wonders when western moral restrain ends and the real fighting begins. May the force be with us all.