Re: The Crusades
It is true that the onus is on one who asserts something to prove it likely or certainly to be true, rather than upon him who disputes that assertion.
Nonetheless, although you are trying to label MMMMMM's quotes "cherry picking", they seem to be valid unless you can show they were taken out of context (he is asserting that they weren't I assume).
The simplest explanation:
1. The Koran advocates war and violence to convert unbelievers and punish those who are deemed to have offended Islam.
2. The history of Islamic states from the time of the caliphs has been one of authoritarianism in the name of religion.
3. Islam advocates the imposition of Shari'a law as the basis for the judicial system even if it means using violent means to achieve this (Iran and Islamic Northern Nigeria are prime examples).
4. Since the state is thus based upon holy writ and the will of Allah, then democracy can have little place except for expressing the will of the masses regarding mundane matters, and thus a totatlitarian state is the likeliest result.
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