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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Of course it's easy to say that the religion is where the ideas that inspire the violence comes from, but that's not at all exclusive to Islam and can even be found today in Christianity. Do we take the same lazy approach when Christianity inspires violence and hate? Is all of Christianity the problem? I've never heard that, except from hardened atheists of course, in which case their hate of religion is fairly equal across the board.
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I imagine if there were sects of Christianity inspiring as much violence and mass terrorism as radical Islam is today, we'd be taking a pretty hard look at them. If a few hundred million Christians from 17th century Europe were teleported into the present world, I expect we'd have a pretty big problem on our hands with fanatical zeal, ultra-conservatism, and religious violence. Fortunately, Christianity was moderated by the Reformation and Enlightenment, and the West became largely secularized. How many young American, Brazilian, or Polish Christians are rushing off to the Philippines to wage holy war against the Muslim population, or blow themselves up in an Istanbul restaurant?
People who blame all Muslims are idiots. But so are people who refuse to believe Islam today has an egregious problem with radicalization and violence.