Muslims: Marvelous Protectors of Christianity! (?)

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I have a geotechnical engineer coworker who is an Iranian-American whose family moved here when the Shah was desposed. I’ll be sure to tell him that what he’s told me of Iran is all wrong. Sorry about that. 😉

Great guy, by the way and Persian culture sounds to be fascinating. How the ayatollahs there keep such a people under their boots I can’t understand.
I live in Iran. The situation isn’t perfect. But it isn’t how it is portrayed to westerners.
 
It would be a sidetrack to start arguing about Israel vs the Palestinians, so I won’t. For purposes of this discussion, suffice it to say that absolutely nothing in the religious teachings of Judaism instructs them to oppress Palestinians. If, for the sake of discussion, they are doing so, it’s their own human failings.

The oppression of Jewish and Christian populations by muslims, on the contrary, is directed ordered by Muhammed and by implication Allah in the Koran. Is it not?

You don’t see a difference in basis of concern?
The Quran does not give the order to oppress someone. As for religious teachings of Judaism that can be used against the Palestinians who are worshiping a non OT God, the might of interest to you:

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. “The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him.” (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)

Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)

I don’t want to discuss these, but they can be used against the Palestinians.
 
We don’t want the US to do anything about it. We don’t want the US to satisfy us. Just tell Uncle Sam to stop meddling in the middle East and leave us in peace. But Uncle Sam has way too many geo-political interests in the region and it will not stop meddling.
Leave the place in “peace”. Unfortunately, that’s not what’s going on there. Unfortunately, we do have interests, as do many others in the world community.

You don’t want meddling? Me neither. Unfortunately, that it not the only opinion out there among ALL parties.
 
We don’t want the US to do anything about it. We don’t want the US to satisfy us. Just tell Uncle Sam to stop meddling in the middle East and leave us in peace. But Uncle Sam has way too many geo-political interests in the region and it will not stop meddling.
Isis is spreading like a cancer, and it wont be long before its starts showing up in your country (the way it is spreading and goes unchallenged).
Will your country stand up to these thugs? Or will you be asking the question 'why isnt America doing anything?
America will never win, no matter what they do in the middle east, if they do support action, they are invading, if they dont support action they are abandoning you. What does the middle east want?
No matter how the west will react, we will always be the ‘bad guys’
 
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