The problem is that he's kind of right, if you read the actual text he's relying on. Guys like that Reza Aslan who was posted earlier try to muddy the waters by insisting that violence has nothing to do with Islam... but Islam preaches violence in certain situations (much like other religions; the only "religion of peace" I'm aware of is Jainism), and there is a straight line from the texts to this behaviour. The main issue is that the religion itself needs a reformation, and the entire concept of jihad needs to be discarded as a relic of a former era by Islam.
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