My thoughts on this are that it's impossible and trivial to talk about Islam as a 'violent religion' in a vacuum, without talking about the geopolitical structures of the Middle East, without talking about the US and Coalition role in radicalizing young Muslims in these countries, and without taking into account the vast majority of Muslim people who are not violent and do not support the Islamist movement.
Look at it this way: if I lived in a place in the world that was majority atheist, and after a World War the people who fought it took a chunk of my land and then gave it to some Christians, then redrew all of my country's borders, then for some reason there was a violent popular uprising of atheist revolutionaries who committed an unspeakable act of terrorism in the name of atheism, then for 15 years I was afraid to go outside because there were soldiers from a foreign country patrolling the streets---soldiers who were trained to see me as a hateful piece of shit who is intent on killing them, and when they weren't there a bomb could drop out of the sky at any minute from an unseen drone miles up, it might be easy for an upstart faction to convince me that these people represented evil.
Look at it this way: if I lived in a place in the world that was majority atheist, and after a World War the people who fought it took a chunk of my land and then gave it to some Christians, then redrew all of my country's borders, then for some reason there was a violent popular uprising of atheist revolutionaries who committed an unspeakable act of terrorism in the name of atheism, then for 15 years I was afraid to go outside because there were soldiers from a foreign country patrolling the streets---soldiers who were trained to see me as a hateful piece of shit who is intent on killing them, and when they weren't there a bomb could drop out of the sky at any minute from an unseen drone miles up, it might be easy for an upstart faction to convince me that these people represented evil.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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