All the major religions have different impacts on humanity and breed different cultural norms. For example, the deep meditation norms of the budhhists are not shared by jews, nor do buddists insist on kosher lifestyles.
Suicide bombings or Jihad like phenomena are virtually the exclusive domain of islamic culture.
It matters not whether some english speaking muslims really believe the supposed "personal struggle" version of Jihad because we are only dealing with objective facts in this question.
In others words, what is Islam in reality as opposed the imagined version. How terrifying is it, for humanity itself, that a relgion can do this at all, and on such a scale?
Is Islam itself to blame or is it just a gun in the hand of some bad people? Either choice works so long as we agree that Islam is a gun, as opposed to a pillow (like buddism might be).
2007-04-14
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