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Anyone can find pictures of some extreme event and use it to paint an entire group.
Pew Research has shown that majorities of Muslims around the world oppose violence, are very concerned about extremism, and oppose it.
Actually, you need to read that more closely because the results are mixed, with some items involving violence or killing receiving majority support. Go do your homework now.
I agree that the results are mixed - mostly in relation to geographic locality and in certain specific examples such as treatment of homosexuals which is still stuck in a medievil mindset. I have, however done my homework.
Muslim Publics Share Concerns about Extremist Groups Pew Research Center s Global Attitudes Project
In many of the countries surveyed, clear majorities of Muslims oppose violence in the name of Islam. Indeed, about three-quarters or more in Pakistan (89%), Indonesia (81%), Nigeria (78%) and Tunisia (77%), say suicide bombings or other acts of violence that target civilians are never justified. And although substantial percentages in some countries do think suicide bombing is often or sometimes justified – including a 62%-majority of Palestinian Muslims, overall support for violence in the name of Islam has declined among Muslim publics during the past decade.and, on extremism
Majorities in most of the Muslim publics surveyed express concerns about Islamic extremism in their country. Senegalese Muslims are the most worried (75% concerned), but at least six-in-ten Muslims in Lebanon, Tunisia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories are also concerned. More Jordanian Muslims (54%) see Islamic extremism as a threat than do not (45%).
In Indonesia, the Muslim public is evenly split: 48% concerned vs. 48% unconcerned. Turkey, meanwhile, is the only country surveyed where at least half of Muslims (51%) say they are not worried about Islamic extremism.
Concern about extremism has increased in some of the countries surveyed, including Pakistan, where two-thirds of Muslims now say they fear the threat of Islamic extremism, compared with 58% in 2012.1 In Tunisia, six-in-ten Muslims are now very concerned, up from 42% saying the same a year ago. Conversely, in the Palestinian territories, the proportion of Muslims worried about extremism has declined 14 percentage points since 2011, the last time the question was asked there.
In Lebanon, large majorities of Shia and Sunni Muslims share concerns about Islamic extremism (74% and 72%, respectively); these worries are even more pronounced among Lebanon’s Christians (92%). In Nigeria, Christians and Muslims are about equally worried, with 74% of the Christian population and 69% of the Muslim population expressing concern. However, the proportion of Nigerian Muslims worried about extremism has dropped 14 percentage points since 2010. In Malaysia, Muslims are much more worried than their Buddhist countrymen about Islamic extremism (70% vs. 46%).
Good. Now compare those numbers to the number of Christians who think violence in the name of Christianity is justified, or the killing of those who violate religious law, and you'll see the problem. Once you draw the right comparison, then the world makes a little more sense.
In general - in this age, Islam has the worse problem with extremism, intolerance and violence. In the past, it was Christianity, in the future it may be someone else. That's the "right comparison". They all have, just beneath the surface - the scripture that they can interpret to legitimize extremism. That's why I'm a strong proponent of secularism.
Just for shits and giggles though - Gallop did an intetesting poll on the views of different religious groups in America towards violence: Most Muslim Americans See No Justification for Violence
No. Not just "in general" but in frequency and with consistency. Not just "in this age" but with a historical perspective. Islam's jihad against humanity has been on-going since Islamist holy warriors spilled out of the Arabian Peninsula after the death of the religions inventor. Making excuses and allowances for it, as you do, is sleazy.
It’s a matter of being honest regarding islamist ideology. If you can't acknowledge that islamist ideology is one of establishing itself as “supreme above all others”, you shouldn't feign shock and surprise when others point that out.
It's a shame you can't be honest about this. honest about this. Spurious apologetics from the islamist pom pom flailers notwithstanding, can anyone find anything any ideology in the world today which compares to the brutish, widespread, and systematic savagery commityted in the name of muhammud (swish)? There is something very, very wrong in the politico-religious ideology that was invented by an arab warlord on the scorched sands of the Arabian peninsula fourteen hundred years ago.
Pretending you are some kind of scholar on Islam is sleazy.