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Originally Posted by Mack
How can you establish whether Islam is a violent religion unless you compare it to other religions? It's called establishing a control. Otherwise you can't determine that it is really Islam causing violence instead of it just being human nature to cause violence and then claim it's in the name of religion.
At one point in history just about every war in Western Civilization was carried out in the name of Christianity. Does this mean Christianity is a violent religion? I believe the answer is no, and we know this because Western Civ is relatively peaceful right now. Islam happens to be concentrated in a poor and unstable region right now, kind of like how the entire Christian world was 500 years ago. So by comparing Christianity as it was 500 years ago to Islam today, you could come to the conclusion that in both cases religion was not at the root of all the violence. Perhaps a combination of poverty and instability can cause violence to be carried out in the name of any religion.
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...Trying to hide from the reality is the natural liberal response. It's such a shame our nation will have to face another horrific attack to mute those that think islam is such a peaceful religion. This is the most ignorant statement I have ever heard from the left loons, "islam is just going through the growing pains, just as Christianity did", as if we are suppose to excuse their radical vicious behavior.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=57141
The project, headed by David Yerushalmi, a lawyer and expert on sharia law, has finished collecting data from the first cohort of 102 mosques and schools. Preliminary findings indicate that almost 80 percent of the group exhibit a high level of sharia-compliance and jihadi threat, including:
* Ultra-orthodox worship in which women are separated from men in the prayer hall and must enter the mosque from a separate, usually back, entrance; and are required to wear hijabs.
* Sermons that preach women are inferior to men and can be beaten for disobedience; that non-Muslims, particularly Jews, are infidels and inferior to Muslims; that jihad or support of jihad is not only a Muslim's duty but the noblest way, and suicide bombers and other so-called "martyrs" are worthy of the highest praise; and that an Islamic caliphate should one day encompass the U.S.
* Solicitation of financial support for jihad.
* Bookstores that sell books, CDs and DVDs promoting jihad and glorifying martyrdom.