My religion? Why on earth do you think I'm a muslim? Is it because I'm not jumping on the "all muslims are terrorist" bandwagon?
You must be projecting, because apart from a couple of idiots, nobody said that.
Unfortunately people like you are suggesting that because some people believe in extreme versions of a book/religion everyone that believes in that religion must be just as bad. That's simply not true. That's why they are called muslim extremists, like all extremists they don't represent the ordinary muslim.
Which are? You'd be surprised what the average Muslim thinks of blasphemy, apostasy, headgear, foodstuff. Have you asked any? Because I did a few times. It's like I was made of kryptonite, so I don't ask those questions anymore. I wish it weren't so, but there you go. Would you call me islamophobic for even daring to ask those questions? And yet, you can ask me or most people on this board anything.
The bible teaches death for adulterers and many other "sins" yet very few christians actually believe that. Some do yet we don't tar all christians with that brush. We don't blame the average christian on the street for the beliefs of the Westboro Baptist Church, the Ugandan governments "kill the gays" law or the multitude of other despicable acts and ideologies of various christian denominations. They read the same book as the cute 70 year old granny going to St. Johns church in Swindon yet interpret it very differently.
Because, pretty much everyone moved away from that? As of note, the persecutions against gays in Africa, contraception, are mainly religiously fueled (by protestant and catholic missionaries alike, let's not be partisan). So yeah, it still happens.
That's why there are so many using the words Bigot, racist and xenophobic towards people with your particular beliefs.
We need to stop extremism whatever the religion. That doesn't mean we should persecute religious people that are carrying on with their normal lives. It's an Islamic extremist agenda, not the agenda of the average muslim, no matter how often you want to insist it is.
What IS this average Muslim. It's actually really hard to know what they really believe, what they reject, and what they accept. The cherry-picking is done quite differently from Jews and Christians, who seem to have no trouble discarding the nasty bits as parables and allegories.
It's not a religion I am particularly fond of. Proclaiming peace, yet capable of the worse atrocities in its name, and subjugating its followers to ridiculous rules. Well, it's a religion after all. No matter how much you wish to deny it, it is part of it. And right now, its ugly parts are in the spot light. I'm not feeling much love from the rest.
I don't hate Muslims, and I don't consider victims either like some condescending p***s would. I hate what this damn religion can bring out of people.