Quote:You're right also, but I think that such acts of evilness being done in the name of Islam has increased only in the last couple of decades, not centuries.
Without a doubt, Rayaan. It gets difficult to draw a line between the religious and the political. Islam is seen as a unifying factor among disparate groups who have long traditions of enmity among each other...Shi'a and Sunni to name the obvious example.
Perhaps we can compromise with the observation that many muslims are being manipulated through religion by leaders who have a political agenda.
( A charge, I might add, which I would also apply to Urban II and his fucking "Crusade.")
