Islam is not bad, too many of you are ignorant of history.

[Badassbab]

superchunk said:

Badassbab said:

At OP,

Must award you bravery points at least for starting this thread. Islam from a historical point of view is no better or worse than Christianity give or take though if we look at numbers than killings in the name of Christ far exceed those committed under the banner of Islam. The way I see it, Empires will use whatever ideology at their disposal to advance (or not) their civilisation and territory whether it be a religion or a political ideology like facism or nationalism. One of the main issues I have with a lot of people (Muslims and non Muslims alike) are they are so quick to see the crimes of others (and rightly so I may add) but completely turn a blind eye to the crimes committed in their name by their Government or in the name of their religion as if it's not a crime at all but for the greater good in some abstract universe.

You are right that the two religions are no different in the atrocities they've committed in the name of their religion. That is the point of my thread.

However, I am not trying to point out flaws with Christianities history while ignoring the flaws in modern Islam. For some reason a few people in this thread have made the same point, but that is 100% not what the OP states.

I was merely trying to point of the ignorance in stating things about the moral superiority of Christianity vs Islam as way too many Christians do, when in fact Christianity has went through this exact same phase that lasted hundreds of years, whereas Islam has only been like this for less than 200.

To me its not helpful in any way to simply state Islam is evil and violent. Instead it should be focused on how do we revert Islam to its far peaceful past? How do we education the Muslim masses on their own Qur'an so they will stop listening to these extremist? How do we create a Renaissance in Islam?

Even today Christianity still has extremist elements. Those who attack gays, nonChristians, and abortion clinics. Difference is they are not have any power to perform larger havoc because the masses read and understand the real message in the NT of the Bible. That is what we should be focusing on when we discuss extremism in Islam.

People like Prodigy will never help bring about Islam as its actually taught in the Qur'an, instead they simply promote extremist views and adherents because it simply adds fuel to these groups initiatives.

I wasn't pointing fingers at you per say. After all I don't see any Muslim armies invading the Western world killing hundreds of thousands of people unlike the other way around. There's always a 'BUT'.