Islam in Europe: perception and reality

[Mister Agenda]

I'm confused as to what you're arguing.

It was in reply to the concept of "broad-brushing" which can be done.  If 3-4% of a population are 11th century assholes who want to cut off hands for theft or stone women for adultery then suggesting that the rest of the group are 11th century assholes would be unsuportable.  But when 50-60% of a group express those attitudes then it is time to start looking for root causes.

In the case of islam it is not hard.

The 4 million Muslims who have died as a result of Western actions and policies since 1990? Our habit of knocking down secular governments in the region if they won't play ball with us on oil? Our backing of fundamentalists against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s (and the fundamentalist-oriented textbooks we supplied for Afghanistan schoolchildren, which made their way to Pakistan, which we supplied into the 1990s)? Our financing and military support of the most significant exporter of Wahabbism, Saud Arabia?  

The books of the Jews and Christians are just as primitive. But no one has done more to keep Muslim majority countries fundamentalist and backward than the USA and Europe.