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'''Islam''' is a [[monotheism|monotheistic]] [[Abrahamic religion]] based on the teachings of [[Muhammad]] (or often [[Mohammed]] and other variants), a seventh century [[Arab]] who, according to Muslim belief, was an agent of divine action. Muhammad was also born to the descendents of Abraham. Muhammed claimed to have received revelations from Allah via the archangel Gabriel, which were written in the [[Qur'an]] ([[Koran]]) - thus forming the core teachings of Islam. The word "Islam" means "submission" (to [[Allah]]) in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]. Islam as originally designed in the Qur'an presents itself as an Abrahamic faith and has [[Moses]] in it as well as [[Jesus]] as a prophet in Islam, but not as God's son. Islam has been criticized for some time, due to its demanding of strict submissiveness of women and its predisposition to being violent suspicious and attacking other faiths deemed a threat to Islam, as a result there have been over 16,000 terrorist attacks committed by extremist Muslims since 2001.<ref>http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/</ref> Islam has been corrupted over the years by the combination of non-Islamic local cultures with Islam and modern-day Arab nationalist racism towards Jews. The corruption of Islam by terrorists and totalitarian dictatorships like in Iran and the Taliban in Afghanistan have transformed Islam from being an Abrahamic faith to being an explicitly anti-Semitic faith that denies the historic influence of Islam from Judaism and Christianity. As such, Islam as practiced by Islamist fundamentalists is no longer an Abrahamic faith but a corrupted anti-Semitic faith.

'''Islam''' is a [[monotheism|monotheistic]] [[Abrahamic religion]] based on the teachings of [[Muhammad]] (or often [[Mohammed]] and other variants), a seventh century [[Arab]] who, according to Muslim belief, was an agent of divine action. Muhammad was also born to the descendents of Abraham. Muhammed claimed to have received revelations from Allah via the archangel Gabriel, which were written in the [[Qur'an]] ([[Koran]]) - thus forming the core teachings of Islam. The word "Islam" means "submission" (to [[Allah]]) in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]. Islam as originally designed in the Qur'an presents itself as an Abrahamic faith and has [[Moses]] in it as well as [[Jesus]] as a prophet in Islam, but not as God's son. Islam has been criticized for some time, due to its demanding of strict submissiveness of women and its predisposition to being violent suspicious and attacking other faiths deemed a threat to Islam, as a result there have been over 16,000 terrorist attacks committed by extremist Muslims since 2001.<ref>http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/</ref> Islam has been corrupted over the years by the combination of non-Islamic local cultures with Islam and modern-day Arab nationalist racism towards Jews. The corruption of Islam by terrorists and totalitarian dictatorships like in Iran and the Taliban in Afghanistan have transformed Islam from being an Abrahamic faith to being an explicitly anti-Semitic faith that denies the historic influence of Islam from Judaism and Christianity. As such, Islam as practiced by Islamist fundamentalists is no longer an Abrahamic faith but a corrupted anti-Semitic faith.

There are small groups of largely Westernized Muslims who reject the common corrupt anti-Semitic variant of Islam preached by Islamist terrorists. Such moderate Muslim conservatives are in the [[Republican Party]], known as the [[Muslim Republicans]].<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> One of America's Founding Fathers, [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was a religious [[libertarian]], declared: "''freedom for the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindu and infidel of every denomination''."<ref>John A. Garraty, Story of America Beginnings to 1877, (1992) Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pg 706.</ref> 2012 American Presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]] has said that:  "Radical, violent Islamists pose a threat to Americans and others around the world." and that "they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know." and said that when he lived in Detroit he knew Muslims, as Detroit has a large Muslim population, and says "They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism."<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref>   

There are small groups of largely Westernized Muslims who reject the common corrupt anti-Semitic variant of Islam preached by Islamist terrorists. Such moderate Muslim conservatives are in the [[Republican Party]], known as the [[Muslim Republicans]].<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> One of America's Founding Fathers, [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was a religious [[libertarian]], declared: "''freedom for the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindu and infidel of every denomination''."<ref>John A. Garraty, Story of America Beginnings to 1877, (1992) Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pg 706.</ref> 2012 American Presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]] has said that:  "''Radical, violent Islamists pose a threat to Americans and others around the world.''" and that "''they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know.''" Romney has said that when he lived in Detroit he knew Muslims, as Detroit has a large Muslim population, and says "''They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.''<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref>   

[[Liberals]] however, frequently ignore the violence of Islam (refering to critics as "racists" and "Islamophobes") while they focus on attacking Christianity, a religion with a long history of charity and self sacrifice.<ref>http://www.ccusa.org/</ref><ref>http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/charity.html</ref> Critics of this view often cite the Great Crusades--an unsuccessful attempt by Western Christians to retake parts of the Byzantine Empire that had been conquered by Islamic armies--and various religious wars which were later fought in Europe between branches of Christianity.   

[[Liberals]] however, frequently ignore the violence of Islam (refering to critics as "racists" and "Islamophobes") while they focus on attacking Christianity, a religion with a long history of charity and self sacrifice.<ref>http://www.ccusa.org/</ref><ref>http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/charity.html</ref> Critics of this view often cite the Great Crusades--an unsuccessful attempt by Western Christians to retake parts of the Byzantine Empire that had been conquered by Islamic armies--and various religious wars which were later fought in Europe between branches of Christianity.