Ireland may be more a fight between the brits and irish, it's more nationality than religion. In Africa the fighting is between christians and muslims, it is again mutual combat. As for India and Indonesia, have a look here:
An Indonesian anti-riot policeman (EPA)
Of course, this AP story portrays this as miscellaneous "sectarian violence," but it is nothing else but jihad and an attempt to treat Christians as dhimmis.
Christian provocation: they held a rally. Muslim response: one church and seven Christian homes torched. Now, of course, the Christians are fighting back, but the whole thing wouldn't have started if not for the Islamic assumption of superiority which brooks no displays from the dhimmis. Dhimmi Christians, according to Sharia, must not make public display of their feast days, display the cross, ring church bells, have processions, etc. (See 'Umdat al-Salik, o11.5.) So much for tolerance.
AP, AMBON, INDONESIA: Gunfire and explosions rocked the provincial capital of Ambon yesterday, leaving one dead, 13 wounded and a church in ruins as Christians and Muslims clashed for a fourth day in Indonesia's Maluku islands.
In Jakarta, national police spokesman Colonel Zainuri Lubis said the death toll from the violence had risen to 36 since Sunday. A total of 159 people were injured in that period, he said.
Shortly after dawn, unidentified assailants launched attacks in several districts of Ambon, with the heaviest fighting in areas that straddle the avenues between the Muslim and Christian communities.
Plumes of smoke could be seen rising from at least two places, and gunfire from snipers positioned atop buildings rang out across the divided city for several hours.
Police and the military were patrolling the streets, and most shops and banks were shut.
Ambon police chief Brigadier General Bambang Sutrisno insisted security was improving in the province, where Muslim-Christian violence three years ago killed 9,000 people.
"We believe things are getting better," he said.
A 22-year-old man was shot dead yesterday. Nine others were taken to a hospital in the Muslim part of town with gunshot wounds or blast injuries, medical orderlies said.
The Nazaret Protestant Church and seven nearby houses in a Christian neighborhood were torched by unidentified assailants just after dawn.
Witnesses said at least four people were injured.
Witnesses also claimed the military stood by as the church and nearby homes were burned down.
"We wanted to get our things from the house but the soldiers shouted `you cannot' and pointed their guns at us," said Jan Lukukay, a 53-year-old school teacher. "Why aren't they protecting us?"
The latest round of violence erupted on Sunday after several members of the region's small, largely Christian, separatist movement rallied in the city center. Muslims, who view such public displays as a provocation, assaulted the demonstrators, touching off the sectarian clashes.
The earlier conflict here galvanized militant Muslims across Indonesia -- and attracted Islamic fighters from around Southeast Asia and from the Middle East.
Many members of Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaeda-linked extremist group blamed for a series of deadly bombings in Indonesia, have told authorities that they fought in the conflict.
Unlike most of mainly Muslim Indonesia, the province's 2 million people are evenly divided between Muslims and Christians.
Christians complain that Muslim settlers from other parts of Indonesia have come to dominate government work and the retail sector, siphoning off jobs and business from Christians.
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001749.phpGenocide of Hindus
While India-watchers get indignated about communal riots in India killing up to 20,000 people since 1948, allegedly in a proportion of three Muslims to one Hindu, the best-kept secret of the post-Independence Hindu-Muslim conflict is that in the subcontinent as a whole, the overwhelming majority of the victims have been Hindus. Even apart from the 1971 genocide, "ordinary" pogroms in East Pakistan in 1950 alone killed more Hindus than the total number of riot victims in India since 1948. When Mohammed bin Qasim conquered the lower Indus basin in 712 B.C. The Chat-AMA reports how in Mulatto "six thousand warriors were put to death, and all their relations and dependents were taken as slaves." This is why Rajput women committed mass suicide, to save their honor in the face of the imminent entry of victorious Muslim armies, e.g., 8,000 women immolated themselves during Akbar's capture of Chittorgarh in 1568 (where this most enlightened ruler also killed 30,000 non-combatants). The masskilling of Hindus by Muslims typically took place in the fervor immediatelyfollowing military victories, e.g., a general massacre and arson followedthe fall of the South Indian metropolis of Vijayanagar in 1565. The levies [the Hindus] had to pay were so crushing that one catastrophic harvest was enough to unleash famines and epidemics capable of killing a million people at a time. Appalling poverty was the constant counterpart of the conquerors' opulence.
Apart from actual killing, millions of Hindus disappeared by way of enslavement. After every conquest by a Muslim invader, slave markets in Baghdad and Samarkand were flooded with Hindus. Timer Len, who conquered Delhi from another Muslim ruler in 1398, recorded in his journal that he made sure his pillaging soldiers spared the Muslim quarter, while in the Hindu areas, they took "twenty slaves each." Hindu slaves were converted to Islam, and when their descendants gained their freedom, they swelled the numbers of the Muslim community. It is a cruel twist of history that the Muslims who forced Partition on India were partly the progeny of those Hindus. For its sheer magnitude in scope and death toll, coupled with its occasional intention to exterminate entire Hindu communities, the Islamic campaign against Hinduism, which was never fully called off since the first naval invasion in 636 B.C., was famously evaluated by Will Durance as follows: "The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within."
A first glance at important testimonies by Muslim chroniclers indicates that, over 13 centuries and a territory as vast as the subcontinent, Muslim warriors easily killed more Hindus than the six million of the Jewish Holocaust. Ferishtha lists several occasions when the Bahaman sultans in central India (1347-1528) killed a hundred thousand Hindus, which they had set as a minimum goal for "punishing" the Hindus; and they were only a third-rank provincial dynasty. The biggest slaughters took place during the raids of Muhammad Ghaznavi (ca. 1000 B.C.); during the actual conquest of North India by Mohammed Ghori and his lieutenants (1192 ff.); and under the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526). The Moghuls (1526- 1857), even Babar and Aurangzeb, were fairly restrained tyrants by comparison. Prof. K.S. Lal once estimated that the Indian population declined by 50 million under the Sultanate, but that would be hard to substantiate; research into the magnitude of the damage Islam did to India is yet to start in earnest. In Indian schoolbooks and the media, an idyllic picture of Hindu-Muslim harmony in the pre-British period is propagated in outright contradiction with the testimony of the primary sources. Like Holocaust denial, this propaganda can be called "negationism." The really daring negationists don't just deny the crimes against Hindus, they invert the picture and blame the Hindus themselves. Thus, it is alleged that Hindus persecuted and destroyed Buddhism; in reality, Buddhist monasteries and universities flourished under Hindu rule, but their thousands of monks were killed by Ghori and his lieutenants. Hindu philosophy holds that God pervades everything and everyone in the universe and that nothing and no one is intrinsically evil.
www.geocities.com/jairama1/genocide.htmAlso, I might point out, my previous post was not the middle east and if you look at the Phillipines, you will see unprovoked killing, beheadings and rape all in the name of Islam.
Christianity had no power until emporer Constantine sought to unite it helping to form the RCC in around 350 bc, at this time, Rome was declining in power, not increasing, the inquisition and the burning times did not commence for hundreds of years (around 950bc). Islam began in the 600's w/Mohammed and has been in a full blown state of warmongering slave trading and conquest ever since. The birth of the slave trade can be directly linked to Islam, in fact they were the ones supplying America before it was a country and up till the civil war, how many died because of slavery, christianity does not have the responsiblity for this one.
