thats the problem-- you think i am being accusatory. i am not. its easy to go on ignore when the facts are distasteful or uncomfortable. again, this goes back to the fact that your belief system cannot be separated from your own being and examined.
david cole, in his twenties, went and visited the "extermination" camps in auschwitz and buchen-baden. he was able to put aside his own preformed beliefs and indoctrination and examine it subjectively, and determined that no one was gassed with zyklon-B. he went on the phil donahue show (it was an old talk show in the late 80s) and talked about it despite a hostile, brainwashed crowd. and he did all of this despite the fact that he was jewish himself. imagine the programming he had received growing up, not only religiously, but from the educational system.
I don't find anything about Islam to be distasteful or uncomfortable. I never did, even when I started examining it. That is why I chose to leave Catholicism and live my life according to Islam.
The baseless accusations that Muslims don't have a personal relationship with God, that God doesn't "communicate" with them, the Quran is contradictory, not original, the vile charges levied against Muhammad... all of these are opinions and not at all a reflection of what Islam is to me. So to each their own.
I remember the Phil Donahue show very well (Phil, a devout Catholic by the way). The fact that some Jewish guy went on there and stated his opinion about the holocaust has nothing to do with my beliefs and opinions about Islam. I really have nothing else to say about it to you.
PS - methinks you are sounding like Mr. Baird
but God knows best who you really are.