Yup he attacked Islam as a whole the idiot did. And regarding your last statement, it's not religion but rather people that should change since they do these things even their own religions are against. There is no compulsion in religion according too islamic doctrine but some Muslims still try to force people to convert or mistreat people of other faith. I believe most religions are like that. So the people need to be tolerant. Everyone should be able to choose which religion or not they follow without prejudice.

That's a no true Scotsman fallacy. You can't just discount anyone who doesn't condemn it as not representative of Islam.

I don't know if I buy that these people are merely a fringe group. There are currently 16 Islamic countries where blasphemy can be punished by imprisonment or death. I'm not saying all of them would necessarily endorse beheading for drawing Muhammed, but that's a big chunk of the Muslim world where it would be illegal, and it's not surprising that kind of backdrop can foster extremism.

Yeah a lot of European leaders should try to use their words more carefully as this mostly sets people up against the people of islam that have no part in this problem.

Europe has a problem with integrating culture within another culture and it can create very conservative social bubbles that are often walled off from the existing also conservative bubbles and that has a good chance of creating that ancient old us vs them mentality.

It creates racism and xenophobia and it creates anger that can be used as a tool to radicalize and at the root this is mostly a political issue.

"Careful your hate and bias is showing."

I don't need to be careful, I hate all religions equally. I have been open about it. I wish you were as honest with yourself about all Islamic teachings. As muslims or Christians who don't think their religion is violent have read less and thought less critically about their religions than I have.

There is no moderate Islam, but there are, fortunately, moderate Muslims who willingly choose to omit the teachings of Islam that do not fit the 21st century, which is somewhat useful, this is how Christianity was "reformed" and the west got to progress morally and socially after all. 

people are talking like cristianity wasn't this bad three centuries ago...
islam needs to be reformed, just as christianity has.

Bold: that's what many fail to realize. Because yeah fine, even if you prove it to everyone that Islam doesn't literally tell you to behead your teacher because he conducted a freedom of expression class, you can't dismiss the countless phrases & teachings in Islamic literature that normalizes violent behavior against the other, whether the other is an infidel, a gay, a blasphemian, or even a Muslim with of a different sect. That kind of backdrop can definitely foster extremism. 

Wasn't really my point.

The Torah and to a lesser extent the New Testament of the Bible contain absolutely horrific teachings as well. I.e. stone to death unruly children, slavery is ok, women being treated as property, etc. 

The difference with Islam is that, due to a variety of factors (not the least of which is Western intervention) Islam is endorsed by states in a way that Christianity and Judaism, really are not. In states where challenging Islam is illegal and potentially dangerous, extremism can grow unfettered, and can be exported to the rest of the world.

The religion needs reforming in the west at the very least. Sharia Law is not compatible with modern western civilization. Don’t get me started on women’s rights within it. People make fun of Jesus all the time but make fun of Islam and you risk getting your head chopped off. Radical minority or not this is the modern era not the dark ages. You don’t decapitate people in a modern society because someone made fun of your prophet. 

The French PM was right to condemn the attack for what it was. The crime was done with religious motivations plain and simple, being a radical minority aside.  

Islam is based on the Abrahamic faith.. More specifically the same religious context as the Bibles old testament and the Jewish Torah (Which was the first of the 3 religions.)

Where the Bible differs is with the New Testament.

The religion isn't the problem... It's the fact most Islamic nations are developing nations... And developing nations tend to have poorer human-rights standards... I mean you have a plethora of African nations which are primarily Christian and they use that religion to recruit child soldiers, behead people and more.

The religion isn't the problem. Religious extremism is the problem, ironically it's a right-wing religious problem. - Terrorists tend to be right-wing religious extremists... And that should be shut down.

Not all Christian denominations have reformed though, you do have denominations which interpret the Bible or more specifically the Old Testament in it's literal form. Like the 7th day Adventists.

The Quran is based on the Bibles Old Testament... Ergo Sharia Law is based on the laws found in the Bibles Old Testament... Or more specifically has allot of commonality with the Law of Moses.
And the Bibles laws also have some harsh penalties like stoning for adultery in those laws.

I would argue religion in general is simply not compatible with modern western civilization, it holds progress back for something that has no evidence to substantiate any of it's claims anyway. (I.E. Equality for example.)

Religion itself is not the issue, it's the people who want to interpret something and use it /manipulate as an excuse for some other gain. Could be low iq, bad socio economic circumstances who are easily manipulated.  Before religion, wars, barbaric actions and conquering of lands and people happened, it's evolution and nothing would have changed it.  We don't know how society would be today without the old Testament, new, and so on. Would earth be a better place or even worse offn with other factions or groups of people with extremism. So we can't blame religion, if humans can't getit right collectively, some day, then we have failed.