Is Islam really worse than other religions?

I am utterly non-religious but I fully disagree with people who single out Islam as being worse. Action depends on how religious text is interpreted and that is based on culture and wider social/political factors.

Quoting nasty verses written in the Qu'ran does not win an argument because it doesn't take account for the vast majority of Muslims who are peaceful and non-fundamentalist. It also doesn't account for the fact that most Christians do not take the Bible literally. Jesus Christ was a socialist pacifist who could forgive anything and the Old Testement God was violent and vengeful.

I live in a part of London with plenty of Muslims and when people call Muslims backward, insular and 'not-integrated' this clashes with my own personal experience. Only 1% of Americans are Muslims and when you don't personally know a group of people, it is easier to be susceptible to media stereotypes.

Also, Reza Aslam is awesome:

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

Unfortunately a result of Christian-pandering media not liking to highlight Christian terrorist organizations, in my opinion. Some of the most horrifying terror attacks in recent history have been committed by Christian extremists, it's just that they've been vastly downplayed by the media in comparison to those performed by Islamic extremists.

All religions have their extremists, after all the Crusades were some of the bloodiest times in human history and quite likely even massively dwarf our current religious intolerance problems, and I'm even of the mind that atheist extremists exist in the form of "antitheists" who openly vilify all religion. No group is exempt from the possibility of extremism.

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

I didn't say Islamic terror doesn't exist. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not just a random troll on the internet(which is a large possibility, I'll admit), but what I'm saying is that Islamic terror is not the only kind of religious terror which exists. I would highly advise you do some research on the Knights Templar, and I'm not referring to the ones who were active during the Crusades. I'm referring to the modern Christian terrorist group operating out of Central and Northern Europe, whose big high profile member was a certain Anders Behring Breivik.

aniave · 46-50, F

@DarylDixon: No one is saying that radicalized muslims are committing attacks but so far far right, white christian extremist. Seriously! Hate crimes committed by white christian extremist have risen in the last 10 years. Churches and temples have seen a rise in attacks by christian extremist. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/islamophobia-rise-new-report-says

Quebec mosque attack jan 2017
Texas mosque burned to the ground Jan 2017
Dylann Roof killed 9 people in a church June 2015
These are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head

http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terrorism-islamist-jihadi-dangerous/

Sorry but any religious doctrine or dogma can be dangerous. Africans were enslaved for 400 years and had been victim of the most brutalized abuse in modern history- and that all was done in the name if Christianity. Christianity kept it alive and keep sit alive today! The genocide of native Americans, aborigines, the indigenous were all done in the name of Christ spanning Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, The Caribbean, India, etc.... so spare me the Christian peace bullshit.

Christianity produces many crazy, looney, violent, fucked up, radicalized people as any other! Muslims are just currently being targeted for many reasons. All major religions got some blood on their hands... some bloodier than others. Christianity makes the top of that list every time and not just historically!

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@DarylDixon: Why have they risen? The Qu'ran hasn't changed so maybe something else has.

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

Islamic terror attacks haven't really risen dramatically in any kind of global trend, it's a localized phenomena that really has far less to do with Islam itself and more to do with Islamic terror groups taking advantage of a destabilized socioeconomic situation.