How big of a threat do you think Islam is?

Question

Please try to refrain from being racist or simple minded answers. From what I have gathered their original ideology is outdated, crude at best and completely intolerant of any non-Muslims.

Answer 1

Just like Christianity 600 years ago, and Judeism 2500 years ago.


Considering that they are all based on the same ideology this is not very surprising.


Like the Jews and Christians before them Islam will grow out of it.

Answer 2

As an American, I find it only slightly less threatening than Dominionist Christianity. If I were a European, I'd find it pretty damn threatening.

I consider myself as a liberal, a live and let live kind of guy. I believe in gay rights, separation of church and state and all that. Both Dominionist Christianity and Radical islam oppose them.

Islam is a supremacist, intolerant ideology that has kept Muslims backward since its founding. It is very violent, as a casual reading of the Koran, Hadiths and Islamic history would show. Despite its reputation of tolerance for Jews and Christians, that tolerance is only shown if Jews and Christians are not in charge and humble themselves before Islam. Islam also demands the imposition of theocracy.

However I think Dominionist Christianity poses and even bigger threat to the U.S. Dominionist theocrats have infiltrated the U.S. government, have positions of power in the government, seats in congress and activist lawyers and judges gradually chipping away the wall of separation between church and state. Case in point is the fundamentalist takeover of the U.S. military, especially the Air Force academy.

So while Islamists try to impose their theocracy using bombs and rifles, the Christian fundamentalists attempt (and succeed) in imposing their theocracy with lawyers and politicians.

You tell me which is more dangerous to our liberty.

Answer 3

There are several shades of Islam, as there are of Christianity. It seems only the extremists are the ones to worry about.

Answer 4

Islam is not a threat. It is the terrorists that should be a threat.

Answer 5

Islam sanctions jihad. Jihad sanctions terrorism. Therefore, Islam is a threat. So is Christianity.

Answer 6

I don't see it as any more or less of a threat than any other religion.

Answer 7

A threat to what?