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To take this thread a little off topic, re: the face of Islam.
I am not an apologist for Islam extremists. It is a deadly serious issue that the vast majority of the more than 1 billion good and decent practicing muslims must address, but consider the fact that Islam is 600 years younger than Christianity as a religion.
And what were good Christians doing in the 15th century? I give you the Spanish Inquisition and persecution of non-Christians throughout Europe, where tens of thousands of Jews and other "heretics" were tortured and murdered. This follows on the heels of two centuries of the crusades where thousands of Muslims were slaughtered in the Holy Land and continued in the New World through the 17th century with witch burnings.
Think carefully before considering yourself "holier than thou" for your history is not one without its own atrocities. (for the record, I am Jewish).
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