"How many Christians strapping bombs Vs. how many Muslims?"
Not that I am defending criminal acts, because I certainly won't. But what else do they have to fight back with? And like I said: "The question is more like, how much persecution and subjugation do a people have to suffer before life is so miserable for them that they will resort to any means they can come up with to strike back at their oppressors? I say conditions have to be pretty damn bad and hopeless before people decide suicide bombing as an option to hit their oppressors. These shameful conditions that Israel is guilty of bringing onto the Palestinian people is a crime beyond measure." -- These suicide attacks just don't happen for no reason.
In response to the atrocities you speak of from the very ancient Muslims in India. Again, not that I defend any atrocity from any side. But at least they allowed people to live Vs. the atrocities of the Old Testament heroes who's policy was to slaughter everyone and let no one live, except in some cases taking some young virgin females as basically sex slaves. So if you're going to try and play tit for tat with me. Believe you me, you'll run-out of tit long before I run-out of tat.
Now as far as bringing up Christians. Don't even try to use Christians as an example with me. All you had to do is take a look at both my name and my sig to realize that. I'll remind you what Christians did to my people after this next point.
NOBODY has cut a wider swath of death & destruction as the Christian has throughout history. "How many Christians strapping bombs Vs. how many Muslims you ask?" None that I am aware of, but you don't seem to realize why that is.
Now, how many Muslims do you see going around the world conducting covert operations consisting of organizing terrorist groups and funding them to overthrow (usually) democratically elected governments and replacing them with tyrant dictators who use terrorist death squads against the people -- all in the name of exploiting that nation's natural resources? The answer to that question is also none that I am aware of. Who does this you ask? The CIA, who I think its safe to say are mostly "Christians". Here's just a few examples. Believe me there are plenty more other examples:
1953 The CIA overthrows the Iran democratically elected leader Mohammad Mosaddeq in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK (a CIA creation), is as brutal as the Gestapo
1954 The CIA overthrows the Guatemala democratically elected leader Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize land which some of it the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company operated on, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Some of that land he was going to give back to the people was land he and his family owned. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
1957 - 1973 The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.
Now as for what "Christians" did to my people; which totally dwarfs what you mention about ancient Muslims. And I might add, happened much closer in time.
Lets us not forget what the "border jumping" Christians did to my people (Mesoamericans). The Christian European destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. 95% of my ancestors were killed in the tens and tens of millions from Christians. The Aztec of Mexico, The Inca of South America, The 500 Nations of North America all suffered history's worst genocide by the hands of "Christians".
ReferenceAnd it wasn't enough for them to commit this despicable holocaust. No, they also systematically sought to destroy our culture, our religions and even our language.
Throw in the atrocities that the Christian visited upon the Africans he enslaved, and this is the legacy of the blood thirsty, war mongering, greedy "Christian" with respect to America's history.