it fits the definition of a religion.....just because you dont like it doesnt mean it dont count...
It most certainly does NOT fit the definition of a religion, In fact, it fits exactly the OPPOSITE of the definition of a religion.
"A system of worship, with a code of ethics" (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th ed.)
Ethics ? Would you call this ethics ? Wife-beating, sex discrimination, rape, pedophilia, slavery, animal cruelty, etc. I sure don't.
It's a scam, masquerading as a religion. It's obvious how Islam came to be purported as a "religion". When the founders of it were espousing imperialist genocidal mass murder, extreme misogyny, rape, pedophilia, kidnapping/slavery, torture/mutilation, racial and sexist discrimination, animal cruelty/killing, and other vile things, and were looking for troops to join them in their conquests throughout Asia Minor, they needed something very powerful and extreme to offset and shield them from the severe condemnation they were sure to get.
The answer was religion. By pretending that the Koran, and all of its hatred and immorality was the word of God, they forced the people to accept it. After all, nobody wants to go against God do they ? As this grandiose con job spread, over time, it became deeper and deeper entrenched as a religion, and more and more difficult to abolish or reform.
And it spread only because the murderous Muslim marauders who spread it, killed 270 million people around the world to do that. Many, if not most, Muslims living today, trace their ancestry back to people who were non-Muslims and were forced to become Muslims. Hell of a way for someone to call himself a Muslim.