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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
One of the issues Westerners have with understanding Islam is that, as unbelievers, we are to be killed or enslaved. Islam does not preach mercy, nor does it preach tolerance for other religions. The short form is that any means of killing infidels is a-ok with Allah.
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Well there's a typicaly misunderstood view of Islam.
Islam DOES preach mercy and it DOES preach tolerance (well to the Abrahamic faiths at least). Under strict sharia law Christians and Jews are actualy protected, an example of this is in Iran where Christians are given a legal exemption to the law banning alcohol.
In the same way that Christian fundies pervert christian texts, Islamic nutjobs pervert the Koran to justify their political/theological agenda. They conveniantly ignore the parts of their faith that ban their actions.
By buying into the fundie interpretation of Islam you run the risk of assuming all Muslims are the same. The vast majority of muslims just don't give a damn about fundamentalist Jihad, they want to be left alone to live their lives, make a living and support their family just like the rest of us.
Bear in mind these terrorist nutters are killing more muslims than Americans these days in their attacks. They are as muslim as the KKK is Christian.