What does 100 year old geopolitics have to do with people being killed for being the wrong kind of Muslim? Or adultery? Or sorcery? Or insulting the prophet?
Islam is not just the Quran.
People committing atrocities cite Islam as their motivation and use Islamic scripture as justification. By what standard and with what evidence do you dismiss these claims? How do you know better?
Christianity has been neutered by liberal democratic ideals; a struggle that has taken over 350 years. For a proper comparison, you need to compare today's Islam with Christianity when it held unchecked sway over the laws and politics of the lands it dominated.
Islam is not just the Quran.
People committing atrocities cite Islam as their motivation and use Islamic scripture as justification. By what standard and with what evidence do you dismiss these claims? How do you know better?
Christianity has been neutered by liberal democratic ideals; a struggle that has taken over 350 years. For a proper comparison, you need to compare today's Islam with Christianity when it held unchecked sway over the laws and politics of the lands it dominated.
