Thank you for your very informative and reasonable response. I learned a lot from your thread.

I did read it through from top to bottom but have just copied and pasted your final point so that anyone who didn't read it all might be encouraged to do so.

That is the kind of tolerance Mohammad lived by
and that is the kind of tolerance jesus lived by

and that is the kind of tolerance any true believer should strive to live by....

"But leave it to some ridicelous Muslims who go around bombing people in the name of God, and some equally ridicelous people who try to Put the prophets and messengers of God in a comparisson to see who is better ( as if its a football game) to spoil that spirit of tolerance and acceptance....

May god bless us all...."