Why do Atheists defend Islam?

[abaris]

If you don't understand, from history, that Islam influences and has influenced the political structures of various middle eastern countries, or if you have no reply to that, then you wasted your money on your degree.

So how much does it influence these countries? Examples, please. Going from country to country. From southeastern Europe to Africa and Asia. The Middle East is the minority and only part of the problem.

The reason why I'm always pointing this out is not you or everyone else going on about Islam, as if there was one Islam, sharing the same universal culture, vices and dogma everywhere. It's the politicians making decisions and influencing people to believe in a big conspiracy to change some dime. Thereby playing into the hands of the extremists, since the more hatred and suspicion there is against every muslim, the easier it is to recruit even more people to radicalism.

Again, a political problem rather than a religious one. It's only the grunts being fed religion to make them toe the line of sacrificing their lives. Which gets that much easier if they are shunned, and in the case of some European countries or the Palestinian territories, live in suburban Ghettos without any hopes of moving up the ladder at some point in their existence.