Here we go again. This time in Syria. Attrocities by a ruler against his own citizens, against fellow Muslims! Islam is a religion of peace? Really? Can anyone take that seriously any more?
Throughout most of the history of Islam, Muslims have fought wars against one another (in addition to warring against other cultures) and have perpetrated on other Muslims(!) the most awful attrocities and inhumane treatment. Religious warfare on steroids within(!) Islam. Class warfare on steroids within Islam (extreme poverty in oil-rich nations while the rulers live in unimaginable luxury). Average(!) citizens of many Muslim nations would love to live as well as most Americans live in what we call poverty here. Muslim rulers frequently (usually?) keep their country's population in ignorance. A religion that was once the pride of the world in scholarly endeavors has sunk to this. What a waste. How exactly does all this honor or bring honor to Islam?
With this(!) much violence against fellow Muslims coupled with their antagonism against non-Muslims, how can a rational person believe that Islam is fundamentally a religion of peace? If it were as fundamentally true as so many claim, such violence and attrocities against anyone, much less fellow Muslims, would be rare, would be routinely condemned, would be vigorously squashed. In fact, Islam (Muslims' behavior to one another) would be a model of peace to the non-Muslim world. How far are they from that? Yet they somehow expect Islam to be appealing to non-Muslims! And we non-Muslims, especially Americans, are the intolerant ones?
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