i think about this quite a bit recently. is it fair to say that Islam is violent by quoting passages from it? or say it is violent by virtue of the fact that Muhammed was a warrior and Jesus was a pacifist.
the bible says we should kill homosexuals
we should all keep slaves etc etc.
would it be a fair comparison to say that more people have fought, killed, murdered or died for Islam than for Christianity. Islam was spread by violence and war. Wasn't Christianity? werent most religions?
These terrorists are mostly poor people from shitty lives that are bitter, angry and have no hope that are searching for some sort of meaning in thier lives... when they cant find it in life, they try to find it in death. I think they gravitate towards these extremist views because of who they are as people... not because those views exist and corrupt people.
the thing that bothers me is that terrorists say they are doing it in the name of Islam.. and Islamic leaders do VERY little to speak out against or condemn it or otherwise seperate that extremist view from Islam today.
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