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comment by charliedarwin
charliedarwin  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you know about Islam?

1. Muslims do not acknowledge the violence, hatred and racism in the koran/ahadith/sunnah 2. Websites 3. No Muslim will give me an answer to no 1.

Living in a Muslim country I meet many good muslims yet they know less about Islam, koran, hadith, etc than I do- this is also true of most christians & their bible. Neither feels the need to ask but rather blindly accept what they are told.

When Muslims deny the facts I have to ask 'why is 95% of the violence going on in the world related to Islam, then?' The usual reply is that these are 'bad' muslims who twist the koran's teachings; this is either taqiyya, or plain lack of knowledge.

Two objections- 1. there are millions of 'bad' muslims, then? 2. No, they are doing what the koran/andMuhammad instructs them to do... (see answer 1. above)

The final and insoluble problem- ALL muslims I speak to insist the koran is from Allah, word perfect and true for all time, until the end of days. Therefore, unlike christianity it cannot be reformed and is stuck forever in 7th century values of savagery and primitivism.