Curious Use of Words

The way the Islamic leaders use words have always amused me not in the funny sense. Their use of the word defense is absurd. They are defending them selves by attacking those of other or non-faiths. This is because to them the mere existence of other than Muslims sends a lighting bolt of fear through them. That is because individual thought is alien to the autocratic ways of Islam. In debates they can not legitimize draconian practices as stoning to death women who have been raped, killing those who abandon Islam, or whipping unrelated men and women who have had innocent social contact. Nor do their seventh century practices of women being the property of their father, then their husbands, and then their male children make much sense to the modern enlightened mind. So they are left with converting most by threats of death.