encomiast said:
http://www.proislam.com/column_quran_violent.htm
Hardly a unbiased resource. The very name of the site indicates the entire point is PRO islam... You'd have to site something a little more impartial for me to even bother with it.
Regardless of what the 'true' beliefs of Islam are, you'd have to admit that the quite a lot of the current practioners (and leaders) of the religion are certainly a violent bunch. And if they don't engage in it, they certainly condone it either by action or inaction. Sorry, but too much violence comes from that sector of the population to take your claim seriously.
Does that mean all Muslims are violent? Certainly not. However, if the majority of Muslims are non-violent, they might want to speak out and take action a little more about the violence that comes from other Muslims.
Actions speak considerably louder than words. What I'm hearing from the actions of that sector of the population doesn't lead me to put any credence in your defense of them.
More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. Those same 19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals put to death in the last 65 years...
Violence from Islam is a fact. Don't like it, end it. Join the rest of the world in hunting these people down and putting them away. But it's a rare country with an Islamic government that isn't a haven for these folks.
As a matter of fact, would you care to see what
violent islamics have done in the last 14 days alone?
Let's take a look:
9/14/06 Afghanistan Bakwa Religious extremists attack a police station, killing two officers.
9/14/06 Iraq Baghdad Islamic terrorists set off two bombs, one at a photography shop and the other in a city street, killing ten innocents.
9/13/06 Afghanistan Farah A UN humanitarian worker is murdered by Muslim militants on a road.
9/13/06 Iraq Baghdad Jihadis kill fourteen people on a city street with a car bomb packed with shrapnel.
9/13/06 Iraq Baghdad Sixty-nine victims of sectarian violence are found bound, tortured and murdered over a 24-hour period.
9/12/06 Iraq Bani Saad Seven Shia worshippers are murdered in their own mosque by Sunni bombers.
9/12/06 Iraq Baghdad Six civilians are shredded by a Jihadi car bomb in a commercial district.
9/12/06 India Thandi Dhok A husband and wife are murdered in their home by the Mujahideen.
9/12/06 Turkey Amed An ultra-nationalist group with Islamist ties bombs a bus stop, killing ten Kurds, including seven children.
9/12/06 Syria Damascus Terrorists shouting 'Allah Akbar' detonate a car bomb and attempt to storm the U.S. embassy. A Syrian guard is killed.
9/11/06 India Kulgam A security official succumbs to injuries from a terrorist ambush.
9/11/06 Thailand Yala A Buddhist woman is gunned down by militant Muslims in her grocery store.
9/11/06 Afghanistan Khost A 12-year-old boy is among six people murdered by a suicide bomber at a funeral for a previous victim of a suicide bombing.
9/11/06 Iraq Baghdad Four civilians are killed in a Jihadi shrapnel bombing.
9/11/06 Iraq Baghdad Sixteen people are blown to bits by a suicidal Sunni on a bus.
9/10/06 Iraq Baghdad Two car bombs set by Islamic militants kill at least six people.
9/10/06 Pakistan Wana A tribal leader is gunned down by Islamists as he is walking home.
9/10/06 Afghanistan Gardez A suicide bomber kills a regional official and two others.
9/10/06 Iraq Tuz Khurmato Jihadi gunmen murder four oil workers.
9/10/06 Iraq Mosul A barber is murdered by religious fundamentalists.
9/9/06 Indonesia Poso A young Christian woman is killed when Islamic radicals throw a bomb at her house.
9/9/06 India Doda The Mujahideen raid a police station, killing two officers and stealing weapons.
9/9/06 India Ahlan A civilian is killed by Islamic militants.
9/9/06 Pakistan Garjakh A man murders his nephew and nephew's girlfriend for an 'illicit relationship.'
9/9/06 Pakistan Miramshah The local Taliban pump a 70-year-old man full of bullets and leave him with a note attached to his body.
9/9/06 India Sonwar A taxi driver is killed, and a young girl severely injured in a Mujahideen attack.
9/9/06 India Bandipore Islamic terrorists open fire on a fruit vendor.
9/9/06 India Doda The Mujahideen gun down a man and seriously injure his wife.
9/9/06 Iraq Baiji Three civilians are killed in separate bombings.
9/9/06 Iraq Mosul A 10-year-old boy is killed and his mother injured inside their home by Muslim terrorists.
9/9/06 Iraq Baghdad Jihadis murder twenty-one innocents in a series of bombing and shooting attacks across the city.
9/8/06 Iraq Baghdad A woman and child are among three people killed by an incendiary bomb planted by Islamic terrorists.
9/8/06 Afghanistan Kabul The lives of eighteen people are snuffed out by a Fedayeen suicide bomber in a downtown blast.
9/8/06 Pakistan Barkhan Five people are killed in the bombing of a bus station.
9/8/06 India Doda A man is kidnapped by the Mujahideen. He dies two days later from injuries suffered.
9/8/06 India Malegaon Pakistani-backed militants are thought to be responsible for multiple bomb blasts that leave thirty-one dead and three-hundred injured.
9/8/06 Iraq Baghdad Seven victims of sectarian violence are found bound, tortured and executed.
9/7/06 Afghanistan Kabul Three British soldiers die in a single day from attacks by religious extremists.
9/7/06 India Budbug The Mujahideen invade a home and kill a resident.
9/7/06 Iraq Suwayra A woman is among three people tortured and beheaded by Islamic radicals.
9/7/06 Iraq Baghdad Islamic terrorists mow down nearly forty people in various attacks around the country.
9/7/06 India Srinagar A high school student succumbs to injuries suffered from a terror attack the week before.
9/6/06 Iraq Baghdad A horrible car bombing kills eight Iraqis and injures dozens more. The bodies of nineteen victims of sectarian violence are found elsewhere.
9/6/06 Afghanistan Yaqubi A sucide bomber kills a teacher and one other person.
9/6/06 Pakistan Kaga A 12-year-old girl is killed in her home by al-Qaeda backed militants.
9/6/06 Indonesia Tangkuran A Christian is killed in a bombing attack by militant Muslims.
9/5/06 Lebanon Rmeileh Four members of a detail investigating a Christian's death are themselves killed in a bombing by Muslim radicals.
9/5/06 Thailand Yala An older woman is killed in her home by Islamists.
9/5/06 Iraq Baghdad Eighteen innocents are murdered in at least four separate terror attacks around the country.
9/5/06 Thailand Narathiwat Muslims gun down a man sitting in a tea shop.
9/5/06 Iraq Baghdad Four Shia pilgrims are gunned down in two attacks by Sunni extremists (the other in Latifiya).
9/5/06 Thailand Narathiwat Muslim militants set fire to a house, killing a 61-year-old man.
9/5/06 India Sopore The Hizb-ul-Mujahideen murder a student returning home from classes.
9/5/06 Sudan Khartoum A newspaper editor is kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic hard-liners after publishing an article questioning Muhammad's parentage.
9/5/06 Pakistan Phuldayun A Muslim man guns down his wife, a young mother, in an 'honor' killing.
9/4/06 India Tangmarg An off-duty soldier and his kid brother are brutally murdered by Islamic extremists.
9/4/06 Iraq Baghdad Thirty-three victims are found tortured and executed by sectarian rivals.
9/4/06 Jordan Amman A terrorist yells, 'Allah Akbar' while gunning down a British tourist and injuring five others.
9/4/06 Iraq Basra Islamic terrorists attack a British patrol, killing two members.
9/4/06 Afghanistan Kabul Six civilians are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. The casualties included children.
9/4/06 Philippines Jolo Abu Sayyaf militants kill five troops trying to apprehend two Bali bombers.
9/4/06 India Kashmir Seven Indian troops are killed in three separate attacks by Islamic militants.
9/4/06 Afghanistan Parwan Religious extremists attack a police vehicle, killing three occupants.
9/3/06 Iraq Baghdad Jihadis mortar a residential neighborhood, killing six people, including two children.
9/3/06 Iraq Khalis Muslim terrorists bomb a market, killing at least four patrons.
9/3/06 Turkey Istanbul An Imam is stabbed to death by a religious fanatic.
9/2/06 Afghanistan Helmand The Taliban muder three police at a checkpoint.
9/2/06 Afghanistan Nimroz The Taliban kill four Afghan police officers and abduct ten others.
9/2/06 Iraq Baghdad A series of bombings and sectarian shootings leave at least nine civilians dead.
9/2/06 Algeria Adekar Islamic fundamentalists ambush a security patrol and kill four members.
9/2/06 Algeria Ouled Hamza Two community guards are murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.
9/2/06 India Gani Hamam A vegetable vendor is murdered by the Mujahideen.
9/2/06 Iraq Karbala Fourteen South Asian pilgrims are massacred by Sunni terrorists, along with three other locals.
9/1/06 Iraq Mahmudiya A child is killed inside a home that Jihadis try to level with a rocket.
9/1/06 India Darwashbagh Islamic militants abduct and murder a civilian.
9/1/06 India Pulwama A man is murdered by the Mujahideen in an attack that also injures two family members.
485 killed, 904 injured. That's TWO WEEKS!!!!
Do something about this shit if you don't like the perception that Islam is violent.
encomiast said:
You could as well say that the Bible is full of violence and preaches hate.
I'd agree with that statemet as well. I've seen more vile behavior out of so called "christians" than I care to contemplate. From them I see intolerance, hatred and fear. Not particularly endearing traits either. However they seem to rarely get on a bus full of people and detonate an explosive. I wish I could say the same for the people you are defending.
