Mike,

If they really believed in
allah, and we were really that bad, wouldn't some allah induced terror
befall us?


That argument is old hat even in Christian circles, where a supposedly
benevolent God couldn't possibly allow wars, famine et cetera. The easy
answer: This is God's/Allah's/The Great Pumpkin's way to test us and our
faith.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)