We re out of Dark Ages, some of those retards are not.

Islam is an evil bloodthirsty cult (created by a psychotic murderous paedophile) along with marxism and the marxist NWO. Destroy the NWO and regain your your freedom! I declare my human rights of freedom of thought, speech and expression and will not be forced to respect or "tolerate" anything, especially not Islam and communazis!!! All you followers of political correctness (and therefore willing slaves of the NWO) answer me this, why don't you tolerate and respect MY views and beliefs and others who share them? Why do you only have "special interests" in certain "minorities" and not only don't defend but ignore the rights of majorities? Did you speak out when the American military burned bibles in Afghanistan? How angry were you when Theo Van Gogh was brutally murdered for making a 10 minute film criticizing Islam? I wouldn't be surprised if you were angry at Theo Van Gogh for offending your precious muslims rather than at the muslims who brutally murdered that innocent film maker. (I suppose you don't regard him as innocent as he's too politically incorrect and deserved to die, right?) Hypocritical scum! As to the original poster's question about why most of the public are cowards, these links should give you some answers:

http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/guardian-all-evil-book-review

http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/editorial-three-years-and-how-much-worse-can-it-get

No doubt my right to free speech will be abused again by a cowardly PC moderator giving me a warning for expressing my opinions.

Nah, you'll probably just get banned.

Either way, Free Speech doesn't apply on message boards.   Message boards are roughly like Newspapers.

I don't think we are cowards it's just we are living in ease. There are examples throughout history where a nation in ease was conquered by tyrants. I think even King Solomon wrote about this vanity.

The small problem is that last time when west was proud and mighty and happy from the cultural superiority it ended like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Roman_Empire

and costed our civilization 1000 years of development.

i agree with your post except for the bolded parts

The Crusades were a reaction to the expansion of Islam to places where Christians had been before. 

That's fine, it's your total right, I would be interested why you disagree with those parts though? I mean it's a fact that Mohammed killed innocent people (and instructed his followers to do the same) and married a 6 year old girl and had sex with her when she was 9 so that covers the murderous and paedophile parts. And since this murderous paedophile would be seen as evil in many people's eyes and he created a religion that although was partly based on the Bible was also based on his own evil beliefs (and if it's true that he was visited by a supernatural entity then it was probably a demon or Satan himself) then that religion, Islam, can be described as evil and bloodthirsty in the sense that it says "kuffar" can and should be killed. Marxism and the NWO are also evil cults, their aim is to enslave humanity for a small "elite" community of psychopaths. Marxism created political correctness which is a major weapon of the NWO so those who support it and use it are willing slaves of the NWO. And hypocritical scum should be obvious, for example defending offending loads of people by building a mosque close to Ground Zero in (or at the site of, did they pull it down? I forgot) a building that was hit by part of one of the planes and saying it's their constitutional right to whether it offends anyone or not then crying about some guy saying he'll burn a load of korans (that he bought, it's not like they're stolen) and trying to find anyway to stop him despite it being his constitutional right to say that and even do it if he wants as they're his property. Now you'll probably say I'm a hypocrite for being against the Ground Zero mosque but I'm not because I don't regard Islam as a valid religion, more like a terrorist cult, so therefore shouldn't be protected by the American constitution. Before anyone tells me about all the wonderful muslims they know or if they're muslims themselves, I'm sure there were plenty of nice people in the Peoples Temple (Jim Jones' cult) and the Manson Family but that doesn't mean those cults weren't evil or that I should respect them.

A few countries in the Middle East of have been bombed on a daily basis with a foreign military occupying their country and they also get treated like shit in other countries around the world. North America should never stoop to the level of terrorist, but to say that it's all one sided is kinda rubbish. Plenty of bad thing's happen in the Middle East, it either get's covered up or steam rolled by newer new's (Like Paris Hilton's new hair cut or something).

Just a few recent examples:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11252987

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_killings

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iO3mAel2Ro1twkNo2eQ1EGZ9gO9Q

Don't think people in the Middle East are just pissed off for the sake of it, they go through crazy shit every day, alot of it being caused by another country, while people in North America get to sleep well at night. 9/11 was caused by a handful of crazy bastards, who are apart of a larger group of crazy bastards. It doesn't mean that everyone in the Middle East are crazy bastards, but the way some people talk sometimes is as if they all voted or something when it came to making suicide plans.

So in conclusion: North America have retaliated pretty damn hard, destroyed what was left of an already rough region and have only ever had one major attack on their soil. I wouldn't call them cowards, I also wouldn't call everyone in  North America a sensible human being considering how many of them think the Middle East should just be a crater, but they haven't just sat at home twiddling their thumb's either. So, yeah, people have to take into consideration how the real victims of this whole thing feel and stop feeling sorry for them selves and their country.

Dude all this talk about North americans and christians being cowards blah blah and you conveniently forget that US and its allies have invaded and occupied two midlde eastern muslim countries. Iraq and Afghanistan. Its over a million Iraqis and afghanistan people dead in the conflicts that have been raging on for more then 7 years now. You are talking about actual military occupation man, (Canada has troops in Afghanistan) does that even compare to flag burning or holy book burning??

Whats truly astounding is that you conveniently ignore this plain fact and whine about how you don't have the right to burn someone else's holy book as if thats harming you so much.

Want to know the best way to start stopping the people of mid east hating north america? end the occupation now!