If Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance why is there so much evidence that it's neither?

Leave it to someone to bring up the Crusades which occurred well over 1,000 + yrs. Ago. Then there was the Inquisition.

But they fail to recognize Christianity is no longer a "warrior" religion bent on forced conversion. Political ideologies have two dimensions: Goals: How society should be organized. Methods: The most appropriate way to achieve this goal.

Islamism (Islam+-ism; Arabic:? Isl? M siy?

S? , "Political Islam", or? Al-Isl?

M? Yah) is a set of ideologies holding that Islam is "as much a political ideology as a religion". Islamism is a controversial term, and definitions of it sometimes vary.

Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the enforcement of Sharia (Islamic law); of pan-Islamic political unity; and of the elimination of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world, which they believe to be incompatible with Islam. That is the purpose of shariah law, total control. Here are the top ten reasons why sharia or Islamic law is bad for all societies.

10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped. In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging not only for illicit sex (see reason no.

Nine), but also for drinking alcohol. 9. Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.

8. Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye. 2003, in Saudi Arabia a man had two teeth extracted under the law of retaliation.

7. Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off. The reader should never lose sight of the fact that this punishment is prescribed in the Quran, the eternal word of Allah.

6. Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated. Remember Allah is all-merciful.

5. Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed. In February 1998, the Taliban, who once ruled in Afghanistan, ordered a stone wall to be pushed over three men convicted of sodomy.

4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death. Adultery:In December 2004, Amnesty International reports:An Iranian woman charged with adultery faces death by stoning.

. She is to be buried up to her chest and stoned to death. 3.

Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself. 2. Islam orders apostates to be killed.

1. Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad. Islam is violent—unjustly and aggressively.

Sharia oppresses the citizens of Islamic countries. In contrast, the West has undergone the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason (c. 1600—1800+), so western law has been injected with a heavy dose of reason.

Could or would you want this become law in the U,S.? Also check these videos about the effect of Islamification of Europe. http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/08/t... Muslim Rape Gangs roaming Europe seeking white rape victims.

I think whenever someone asks this question, you expect there to no conflict at all. I think that is naive. There is a lot of crimes in USA and we never as Muslims say, "Christianity encourages peace but you have so much corruption in your society."

And you do but we do not rub it in your face like you do to us. There is a phrase, "Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house." And buddy you live in a glass hut.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.