Is islam a religion of peace and tolerance?

According to Historian Lesley Hazleton - It was the Arabs turn to receive the word of God just like the Jews and the Christians did. All the great civilizations of the past had failed, the revelations said, because they had strayed from the core principles of justice laid down so long ago. Just as the Jews have derided and ignored their prophets and thus have been exiled from their own land, and just as the Christians were now going against the teachings of Jesus only to see their empire divided and failing as the Persians pressed their advantages against the Byzantines, so too with the legendary ancestor tribes of Arabia.

The people of Ad and Thamud – the great nabatean civilization in northern Arabia and the Yemeni one in the south – had mocked and scorned their own prophets and so these people have been punished by God.

The problem with islam is that they are very conservative and literal about their holy book (al-quran). Liberal muslim exists in my country, but they are surpressed, even labeled as "traitor" or denounced as being muslim by more conservative group. Very sad.

Sometimes I get to listen to islamic sermon (it's sometimes on TV). I think their preacher is low in quality. On a really bad sermon, it's all about how islam is superior to other religion and that non-muslims are the cause of every problem in the world.

But I also have plenty of muslim friends. They can be very good friends. They are good people.

Sorry kid but you've built a house of cards - the facts are the opposite of what your asserting. Search for WW2 and WW1 casualties and you'll find that between them Christians have killed and injured more Jews, Christians, Muslims and others than any other religious group.

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.