(December 11, 2013 at 7:10 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote:(December 11, 2013 at 7:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Moderate Muslims do exist, Congressmen Kieth Ellison is Muslim and I doubt he ever or would ever support barbaric acts such as shooting girls for wanting an education, nor would Malala the Muslim girl who was shot.
Agree moderate Muslims do exist, but the core of this study is to quantify just how many fundy Muslims there are: around 50% of those surveyed, a rather large chunk of the survey group.
The point is Muslim fundamentalism isn't "rare", it is close to the norm. Another disturbing finding from the study was how many young Muslim people held fundamentalist beliefs. The number was quite high (don't have it open any more).
Hold on now. What you seem to miss although rightfully going after religion is context of TIME which is distracting you from the core of all religion which is that all holy books are weapons.
If you stripped America of the Constitution it would not take but a couple generations if not less for it to regress back into the same barbarity. All you have to do to know this is to look at the religious fighting in Africa which included barbarity by Christians, not just Muslims.
Christianity in the west is civil in spite of religion, not because of it.
