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Originally Posted by Rathji
The religion itself isnt, except where it has been perverted by those in power, to further their interests.
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Bullets on their own aren't particularly harmful; they're small bits of metal with some powder wrapped in plastic. Yet they somehow manage to kill an awful lot of people.
The Muslims that are non-violent, reasonable, free thinking people are no threat to anyone. The problem is that they are VASTLY outnumbered by crazy people who are still in the 'drag the deposed leader through the streets while firing AK47s into the air' stage of human evolution. But don't tell them about that either, since they'll probably try to behead you.
It's on Muslims to sort their image out; it's not on us to accept this nonsense. We don't do it for anyone else. There's no discussion about all the nice neo-Nazis out there who espouse the economic policies of national socialism as a way to live life peacefully, it's generally recognized that they're asshats. But when the other side is willing to blow themselves up for the promise of vagina in another dimension, all of a sudden everyone's gotta be all excusatory and 'it's not all bad...'.
That thinking absolves Islam of any responsibility, and that's not how this problem is going to get fixed.