Do you really have to add "thing" to the end of most nouns?
Please try not to use personal experience. I'm not going to tell you your wrong if one word is off form the Arabic, just use the quotes you're thinking of.
I don't really know why you used the number 600,000, I just went along with it, but it's more 70,000-100,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Here's a quote from "Iraq Body Count: War Dead Figures":
War-related & criminal violence deaths (civilians) Iraq Body Count-English language media only:
62,841-68,868
Those are the numbers as of Early September of 2006, it's almost a year later now.. And when are suicide bombings most commonly used? Against enemy forces, while I can't say I agree with anything the Taliban, etc, do, including suicide bombings... I don't see why they're viewed as so horrible in wars such as in Israel. Watch "The Battle of Algiers". It won 3 oscars and is very highly rated.. Because it showed that just because the French were more concealed in their killings and were able to use a more powerful to media to spread how horrible Islam was, doesn't mean that they don't use even worse tactics. There was a 'triangle' at the head of the Algerian freedom movement, and the movie was mainly based on this triangle, and eventually the French killed the leaders, how? Through torture, many Algerians were killed, tortured, mutilated, etc, by the French just to find 3 leaders of the Algerian forces. These tactics are still practiced commonly, namely in Israel, not so much by the US.. You never hear about Military torture because you always get the US' point of view when you watch the news and Israel is their ally and they would never make an ally look bad.
Most towns/cities in MA, where I live, Jewish people get Chanukah off, Easter is off as well, as well as Good Friday and Passover. Usually in towns of higher Jewish population, Jewish holidays are off. I was saying more in the perspective of towns with higher Muslim population asking for Muslim holidays off.. And incase you didn't know, Wiccans are not related to Halloween in any perspective.
And are you comparing work to where you live and smoking to an Islamic religious holiday? Smoking is (according to the FDA.. ) harmful to others.. Practicing a holiday is not.. And just like people adapt to their surroudings, as does a town to there inhibitants.. A town/city with a 40% Jewish population would obviously add Chanukah and other major Jewish holidays to town/city-wide holidays. And asking for religious holidays was just an example, the things Muslims in the US are trying to change are harmless..
And please show me an example of Islamic racism? The problems with Kuwait, etc, are more a civil (maybe not the best word to describe it, but you know what I mean), than a racial one (Hard to be racist towards someone of the same race
). The KKK has seemed to die down, there are still some semi-powerful concentrated populations of it left, but many other organizations of been established in place of it (White Nationalist Party, The Lambs of Christ, Army of God and so many more). Christian extremism is still very much present, if not more so because of all the rights being discussed lately (Abortion, Gay marriage).
The last paragraph is kinda ridiculous. Camel Jockies? Lawl. I've never heard anything about this.. And race was never involved in Islamic slavery. Most slaves bought from Europe by the Islamic world were given many more rights than they previously had. At the time when slavery was widely used (pre-1000 AD), lawful enslavement was restricted to two instances: capture in war, or birth in slavery. It was no matter of race, and slavery was near non existant (except for those who offended law by having them) in the Muslim world long before the time South and West African slaves were being sent over to the New world by Shiploads. By the time of the Holy Wars, the law was changed, in that prisoners of war were made free instead of slaves and only captured crusaders were used as slaves until the end of the Holy Wars when slavery was abolished. That could be why you might think whites, but they weren't just shipping white people over, other than the impossibility of that considering how powerful the European nations were, they only took those who were captured in the Holy Wars, which was no matter of race, just because of how violently they attacked the Muslim empire (and they still were allowed to be slaves, with rights to marry, etc.. Any other nation of the time would just execute such enemies..).