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Originally Posted by flstf
I don't doubt that the Europeans and then the Colonists did many unjust things to the Native Americans in order to take the land that they lived on. Just as I don't doubt that Native Americans also fought with each other over the same lands.
The reason I used the term extremist in the case of Israel's enemies is not just because they want the land but because they also seem to want to destroy western culture for religious reasons.
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That is hardly a unique goal....even it if it is more than rhetoric.
Why, you may even live in a land bathed in the blood of "jihad"!
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One of the first Christians to enter the Virginia territory, Arthur Barlowe, arrived in 1584. He described the Native Americans as, "...we were entertained with all love and kindness and with as much bounty, ...as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle loving, and faithfull, void of all guile and treason ... a more kind and loving people there cannot be found in the world, as farre as we have hitherto had triall."....
.....April 10, 1606, the Charter for the Virginia Colony was signed. It reads in part, "To the glory of His divine Majesty, in propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God." Less than 20 years before, Arthur Barlowe had described the Native Amercans with greatest praise for their kindness and charity. In the campaign to force Christianity on the Native Americans, the Virginia Christians reported, "...we burnt, and spoyled their corne, and Towne, all the people beeing fledde."
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