Violence in inherent in Islam. Inviting adherents to a backwards, barbaric, Eastern ideology to come 'co-exist' with modern, democratic, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikkh or Hindu people in modern, progressive Western civilizations is a very evil thing to do as they will always refuse to co-exist with us as they are told to do by their 'Holy' book. The verse of the sword is what these people live by. Sadly, we will probably end up having to fight them in the streets one day.
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ALL religions are inherently violent. The proponents believe they are correct, others are wrong and that therefore they have the god-given right to impose the "truth" on those who are wrong.
I do agree with you regarding Muslims and their holy book leading them astray. There is another holy book doing exactly the same thing. Perhaps you've heard of it? It's called the Holy Bible.
So, Islam is an eastern ideology but Buddhism, Sikhism or Hinduism (or Christianity and Judaism for that matter) aren't?
Something tells me this is just a Christian trying to pretend to being inclusive of other faiths.
Religions can only, at best, co-exist dubiously. People on the whole should be able to live together in relative harmony, but as long as superstitious belief exists, there will always be problems with having anything that resembles a true world unity.
Violence is inherent in Religion .
The Quran and the Bible tell you to do more or less the same things, silly.
You DID fight them in the streets one day; it's called "The Crusades".
To be honest, I'm surprised he even mentioned Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus. Christianity doesn't especially like any of them either, and they outright loathe the Buddhists.
Islam is also a much younger religion than most of those listed. As you read history, note that the violence of a group often coincides with its degree of religiosity. The Middle East could be on the verge of conflict resembling the West's Thirty Year War. Would diminished religiosity and enlightenment follow?
@Nemo
Most every religious group that is extremist is violent.
Whereas Christianity used to be much more warlike and anti-intellectual than it is today, Islam used to be more peaceful and intellectual than it is today.
@Jonathon
It's not religion in general that has a hard time coexisting. It's mostly a problem with monotheism. When you believe that there's only one God and only one proper way to worship him, it's really easy to justify all sorts of nastiness toward outsiders. When you believe in many Gods and Goddesses and many ways to worship them, coexisting with others isn't such a problem.
@Miles Gloriosus
Some polytheistic religions have been intolerant, and some monotheistic traditions have been more forgiving, so I believe tolerance is more of a case-by-case issue in terms of religion. But yeah, I have noticed polytheism tends to be more forgiving than monotheism.
@Firthy2002
Israel vs. Palestine is not a religious war, no matter how much the extremists on either side want it to be. That conflict has a more mundane 'this land is ours. No, it's ours' source.
Case in point: there are Muslim and Christian Israelis. Israel is officially a secular nation ((But don't tell the Haredi that)).
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