Explain this to me?

If you really wanted to know the answer and not just have another thread were people are bashing Muslims then you could've easily asked us on the ISOC thread. Getting tired.

A story involving violence is not the same as preaching violence.

The bible and the Quran has the stories of Cain and Abel for example. But it's a moral story about jealousy. Violence is involved but it's not a story that advocates violence.

You don't need to be a genius to interpret it, the whole Qu'ran is full of violence, which is weird for a "religion of peace". The real Muslims are the ones who follow the Quran properly, and they're the ones causing us problems. You might have Muslim friends, but they just cherry pick from the Quran, so it's right to say that the true Islam is being carried out by the vile terrorists, not by your friends.

Your definition is problematic.

Firstly, I would be hard pushed to think of a religious text that doesn't mention violence. So... meh.

The 'real muslims'. 'Real muslims?' Is there pretend ones?

Reading the Quran, or a religious text is a bit like reading poetry. It's quite open to interpretation. Some people are adamant that their way is the correct way - but that's not necessarily the way that the author intended. People will always skew text to fit their narrative if it suits them to do so.

'True Islam'.... I'd assume that you're referring to people who apply religious texts in a literal sense? Wellllll... they'll have some real issues fulfilling functions that no longer exist. This could be described as basic illiteracy and ignorance thus they can't be described as true followers of the religion.

“When the sacred months have passed, then kill the Mushrikin wherever you find them. Capture them. Besiege them. Lie in wait for them in each and every ambush but if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give zacat then leave their way free.”

Where is the moral story there? Seems to just be violent!

Why would Allah make the "perfect" scripture so outrageously open to interpretation?

It's like a door policy to an exclusive club.

If you're an idiot or a troublemaker then you're not allowed in.

So Islam is not a religion for everyone? Only the intellectual elite are allowed in? Except of course the intellectual elite are mostly Atheists.

Ironically most people who follow religions strictly are usually uneducated and drowning in dogma.

As a non-religious person.... no religion is a religion for everyone.

If you interpret your religious text and *******ise it to excuse your sins then you are not truly of that religion. You can identify as it - but you are fundamentally not it.

Atheism is a belief structure of it's own. It's a valid choice. But if you're truly educated you're able to entertain discourse whilst being sensitive to the historical and geographical cultures of individuals.

Atheism isn't a belief structure in it own right, its quite the opposite. Atheism is the recognition that no religious belief system is valid.

Eh, that's a belief in itself.

I'm not religious myself nor will I say I know much about the Qur'an but you should understand that it was believed to come down in pieces usually with advice on the current hardships the believers were going through, my point is that you need to read the entire surah and understand the context of the verse or at least show us all of it and ask questions then, what's the point of pointing at a couple lines and asking why it's there if you aren't even giving us context. Everyone and anyone can cherry pick anything and draw any conclusion. Radicals of both side will cherry pick verses to prove their point.