[True_Moose]

I don't buy for one second that Islam is a purely peaceful religion. Almost every religion I can think of (except for possibly Buddhism) has passages of violence. Does that mean it is necessarily a violent religion? No. The Bible has lots of violence, and yet I don't see many extremely religious Christians committing incredibly violent crimes. The problem is those who get it all wrong (Nazis, Al-Qaeda, Crusaders, we all know the types.)

Violence is rooted in human nature. For a holy book to ignore it is to deny a facet of human existance, and since holy books are meant to explain, such an omission would be extremely harmful to the proliferation of said religion. [img]smile.gif[/img]