Violent Islam

Beware of criticizing Islam as a religion that teaches violence and martyrdom as tools.

"Not to nit-pick, but Islam no more teaches violence and martyrdom than Christianity does.

"Some governments and clerics in Mulsim countries do, but then Christian Pro-Life demonstrators murder abortion clinic workers, fundamentalist televangelists openly preach assassination of world leaders, and nominally christian countries recently invaded an entire soverign nation on trumped-up charges, so what was your point again?"

If every man, woman, and child in the Western world converted to Islam today, it would change nothing. Witness the Sunni vs. Shi'ite conflict in Iraq right now; both sects are strongly Muslim.

The problem is not Islam. The problem is not Christianity.