Original post by Cpt. JoshApart from the fact that he's right, and Islam is an intrinsically dangerous and violent religion. It is absolutely all there in the Qur'an. There's even a passage somewhere in Islamic scripture which tells of how Muhammad raped his underage wife as his soldiers forced 700 Jews to dig trenches, before beheading them all and pushing their bodies into the pits. This is synonymous with a Nazi execution method.
Instead of defending a religion which, at it's very core, teaches it's followers to aggressively evangelise and kill anybody who stands in it's way, people need to realise that the reason these terror groups keep forming is that their religion allows them to. Funny how you don't see Buddhists filling civilians with shrapnel.
But don't take this the wrong way- I don't have a problem with Muslims. I understand that the vast majority of Islamic people would never actually engage in violent behaviour towards civilians. But we can't continue to think that Islam is peaceful, when it undoubtedly isn't. Look how violent the Middle East is today. Now think back to around 1450 years ago, when Islam was first founded. The Middle East may not have physically changed a lot since then, but it was certainly even more violent. Constant wars, the rise and fall of empires... practically nowhere in the entire world had human rights back then (maybe no countries did, I'm not sure). My point is this;
Islam was made up at a time much more violent than today, in a world with different attitudes to human life. It should have stayed there. But I don't discriminate- Christianity should have stayed there, too. Believe what you want, but know this- there is no place for religion in civilised society. It is a primitive belief system made to explain things which science had not then explained itself. But now our knowledge is changing, and while we still don't understand the origin of the Universe (although we will before too long, and it certainly won't be a God, imo it will be related to latent energies and some sort of fluctuation in one of the 26 dimensions (or 11, if you're a non-believer :P ) which allowed the initial conversion of energy-mass).
But I digress, what I'm trying to say is that all across the world people still stand up for religion, despite the fact that there is insurmountable evidence showing that all it has done is cause war throughout history. That is it's sole purpose. We have to realise that.