Is the ''Only a minority of Muslims are radical'' true?

[Mister Agenda]

America is seen by many people as being a little bit meddlesome when it comes to foreign affairs, this happens mainly in areas of the world that find themselves over resources the US find useful such as the middle east. The middle east is mainly muslim and so the problem is down to geography and politics which then becomes mingled with religion rather than religion on its own.

It's true that if we're talking about terrorism you can't pin the blame on religion, or at least not entirely, but if we're talking about oppressive religious laws (imprisonment or death for gays, apostates, blasphemers) there is no other explanation. Almost every Muslim majority country does at least one of those three things, some even go as far as executing people for all three (Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and Afghanistan)

Let's see: the Saudis are our best buddies, whom we prop up with our military, and our State Department was supportive of them exporting Wahabbism, which they've done with a vengeance. The idea was that the Saudis would control the religion and we would control the Saudis. Afghanistan was modernizing when the USA threw in with the Mujahadeen, who became the Taliban. The Brits and Soviets got rid of Iran's duly elected reformer president who wanted his country's resources in the hands of its people and replaced him with a hated dictator. More recently, we overthrew the secular leadership of Iraq. It's kind of hard to imagine what more we could have done to get the current situation that we have. But if only Islam hadn't been invented, we wouldn't be having the problems we're having now; because Orthodox Christians with the same tribal heritage would be completely civilized and modern by now with the same treatment from the West and Northern Asia.