Terrorist shooting in Australia

[Samus Aran]

Tachikoma said:

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.

Try living in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia, etc. and tell me Islam is not part of the problem. Tell me then it's a tiny group. You won't like living in those countries as a woman, trust me.

And every religion indeed has extremists, yet there are far more Muslim extremists than Christian extremists. Are you even aware how big IS is?

Islam needs to modernize and be seperated from political power.