It isn't the religion of Islam but rather the bloodlust culture it has spawned.
When adherents to that culture exhibit no tolerance for "the other" or even others within their own culture...
Maybe the problem you guys are having understanding this issue is the same Fox-brainrot problem that we see causing you guys trouble on so many issues... Fox only shows you Muslims in the context of terrorism, and you don't have much exposure to the real world, so you just start to think Muslim=terrorist or something... In real life, of course, Muslims are no more prone to violence than anybody else. If you meet a particular Muslim person, they're just like anybody else you would meet. Terrorists are like 0.001% of Muslims just like they're 0.001% of Christians or whatever the percentage is... The problem is your lack of exposure skewing your perception.
If Islam doesn't make people prone to violence then
why do we keep seeing people who converted to Islam or joined an Islamist group get infected with sudden Jihad syndrome, and go out and slaughter complete strangers who are totally innocent? There has to be something in the ideology that makes them think they are doing the right thing. Period.
In terms of real numbers Roudy...
how many is it? Is it really so many? Is it media? Are the numbers any different than those of Christian anti-goverment survivalist types who stockpile weapons and eventually go postal?
How many what? Sept. 11 they murdered 3000. If they can kill more they would. They certainly haven't shown any mercy to those they threatened to behead, did they? Do you think these same animals will "hold back" if they get their hands on a WMD? These Islamists are lining up Kurds, Christians, and all those that stand in their way and mowing them down and then burying them in mass graves.
Also. your hypothetical is a false comparison that just doesn't exist. The Christian world has for the most part reformed. Even the Christian fringe groups you and others keep referring to aren't really doing anything, and are considered outcasts and ostracized by everybody. In fact Christianity in the whole is in decline in the West.
Islam on the other hand is clearly on a backwards trajectory to the 7th century, and it's followers are currently projecting the worst evil, violence and intolerance that humanity has seen for a long time. It is obvious that Islam and Western ideals of freedom, democracy, free speech, equality, human rights, dialogue etc. are just not compatible. It's not going to work. Can't mix oil and water.
Ultimately it comes down to people involved, do they believe in violence and discrimination towards those following another belief system?
Places like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and parts of Turkey, UAE and Malaysia are mostly tolerant and non violent. But Iran, Saudi Arabia, and so on are obvious theocracies - so it is very difficult to be a Christian or non-Muslim in those countries.
If you want to see a bad example of 'Islamic democracy' though, then visit Turkey. Basically a tyranny of the majority, where Christians are still persecuted. The massacres and genocides may have ended, but ancient churches are still bulldozed and ancient graves are still desecrated.
Also ethnic Turkish Christians and non-ethnic Turkish Christians struggle to worship without being hounded or denied the right to set up a place of worship. Muslims there however get everything their way and can build Mosques pretty much everywhere, 'secularism' there is a sham.
Unfortunately, some Muslims aren't coming with a tolerant attitude to the west, let alone an appreciation of human rights. Some of my ancestors would have learned the hard way how terrible 'Muslims' could be, after living under Sharia Law and the constant massacres under Ottoman rule, though most of the family fortunately left in the early 1900s, before the Young Turks did their genocides in 1918.
When I see protests of Turks denying the past, I see their ancestors proclaiming from Mosques 'Kill the Christians and you will go to paradise', and the rivers running red with blood from the dead bodies of men, women and children - who trusted in their tyrant Sultan to protect them.
Certainly I hope that Muslims have learned, but with ISIS massacring people in Iraq and Syria, it has to feel like they haven't. When people fail to learn from the horrors of the past, they are doomed to repeat them.
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