| Samus Aran said: Islam is definitely a part of the problem here. Would you want to live in a country where Islam is the main religion? Besides Turkey, I would not! At least Turkey is a secular, democratic state (not without its own set of problems though). Islam has too much political power in the Islamic world. With Christianity, there was always a distinction between secular power and religious power, even during the middle ages. With the Islam secular power and religious power was much more intertwined. A caliph has always had secular and religious authority. The Pope's political power was mostly restricted to the Papal States. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
Compare the number of islamic extemists with the number of people who identify as islamic.
I lived in Indonesia for a while, it has a very high islamic population and i found the people to be extremely welcoming, friendly and accomodating.
Islam isn't the problem, extremists are, and every religion has it's extremists.
I personally do not follow any religion, nor do I believe in any god, but that does not mean I am devoid of respect for those that do, nor does it mean I will label an entire religion as "a part of the problem" through the actions of a tiny fraction of such a group. To do so is to demonstrate both prejudice and broad discrimination, one may even argue borderline racism.
