(bismillah) Dear Christianlady, I come from a Christian family and was raised Christian for 16 years of my life and I must say that becoming Muslim has given me the greatest joy someone could ever experience spiritually. Love comes when you see the reflection of God's attributes in a person, it is hypocrisy to claim that you love your enemies when all they do is cause you harm and hurt you and your beloved ones. Would you truly LOVE the people that kill your children, your parents? We have to see what is your definition of LOVE dear ChristianLady. While Islam does not PREACH hypocrisy to claim to love those who are BAD and work for the devil, Islam certainly preaches that nobody does a bad deed without getting their punishment for it unless their repent, and God is infinitely merciful that the punishments we get come from our own bad deeds. In Islam we are supposed to forgive the people that hut you and certainly Allah does not want us to live in hatred, let alone go around killing people or harming people in his name because WE HATE something they did. As I mentioned before, the right posture of a true Muslim or what is expected from us is to disassociate from people that do BAD and are evil, and firmly believe that those who harm us will certainly pay for it in this life or in the here after because it is a promise of God in Qur'an that nobody escapes their bad deeds and nobody goes without reward for their good deeds. As for what happened in Paris and whatever happens with those so called Islamic terrorists, I will totally assume that people would have enough brain to understand that extremism, psychosis, and mental sickness reach everyone and do not spare you based on gender, religion, race, etc. It is a trend nowadays to shout "Allahu akbar" and kill people, as it is also a trend to write articles about any crime being attributed to Muslims just because perhaps it does not fit in their agenda that we are the fastest growing religion and a lot of governments will LOVE to destroy religion and the moral values that come with being a true follower. The more we grow, the more the evil people suffer, therefore they have decided to do anything they can to TRY to intimidate us and erase us off the map as much as they possibly can. Brothers and sisters in Islam, stay strong and don't walk with shame, put your head up because God is watching over us, nobody can harm us when God is on our side.