Outlining the Primitive Sacred & the "Normal"

A blog aptly named for a common designation for Jews and Christians by Scimitar devotees - "Sons of Apes and Pigs" - asks a great deal of questions:

Do you still think that any Muslim praying to be in a paradise filled with the thugs of the world, starting by their chief thug, is really a normal person?

Can you imagine Allah's paradise filled with the Guantanamo crowds sitting around Mohammad, the one that was sent "mercy to the world", listening to his deeds, that makes Muslims so proud of? like the slaughtering of the Jewish tribe of Korayza or splitting a hundred years old woman in half and parading her head on a stick, or playing soccer with the decapitated heads of the ones who criticized him, while his listeners are praising him with "peace be upon you". If that's the eternity Muslims long for, how can we expect them to help us with the war on terror against their co-religionists killers, that will be their companion in that paradise?

They're the only followers of a so called "religion" that go on rampage, bombing, killing and destruction after prayers. When you look at the faces of people from any other religions after their worship, you see peace and serenity. Do you see the same thing on faces of Muslims after their prayers? How could it be, if their prayers consist of cursing all other people, and asking their Allah's wrath, death and destruction even for the people they're living within. Do you feel secure, seeing the enraged faces of their imams. Or they too are hijacked. and if their imams and sheiks are hijacked, their prophet is the prophet of doom, their Allah is made on the image of their prophet, so who's left, who's not hijacked in this "religion" to be considered normal human being?

Any wonder who they pray to and worship? Our western governments still call their mosques: Houses of worship and prayers. I know they worship, but worship to who and pray for what? Can any one from the medical profession do humanity a favor and offer us a study on the effect of the Islamic prayers on Muslims? Read all …

The blogger, Ibn Misr, outlines the insidious shape of the primitive Sacred with his questions. He also traces something that has been revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of the Word made flesh [Jn 1,14]. Misr calls the latter "normal", but it is highly abnormal, in my opinion.

We in the West have taken far too much for granted this Normal of which Misr speaks. It is summed up in what are in the Christian faith calls the Two Great Commandments: to love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength; and to love your neighbor as yourself. Christ answered the question, "Who is my neighbor?" by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan. How can anyone say we worship the same deity when actions like this come under the auspices of acceptable, even laudable, "worship"?

Thomas Madden and other scholars are showing that the Crusades were not primarily an aggressive victimization of Muslims in "their" lands, but charitable mobilizations of Christians to protect other Christians who were (a) already present in those lands prior to the Prophet's incursive forces, and (b) efforts to protect the sites revered by Christendom and pilgrims to those sites.

How are Christians being called to mobilize in the clash today?