DarthMetaKnight wrote:
GnosticBishop wrote:
Are you saying that the West needs to learn to be more like Muslims and that we should apologise for criticizing them?
We shouldn't apologise for criticising Islam. That's covered under freedom of speech.
Our leaders should, however, formally apologise for all the innocent Muslims that they have killed.
We don't need to be more like Muslims. We just need to recognize that Islam isn't as bad as we think it is. Albania is a Muslim country, but it is very peaceful and tolerant. Also, homosexuality was permitted in the Ottoman Empire.
Overall, the Quran is just as bad as the Bible and the Torah. I don't think that Islam is beyond criticism. I just think that most of the problems in Islam also exist in every Abrahamic religion.
I do not se much difference in ideologies between Islam and Christianity though but reforms in Christianity has put it a small cut above Islam.
As to us apologising for our killings, perhaps, but I also recognize that there have been more Muslinms killed by other types of Muslims than by us.
As to how bad Islam is today, check the stats supplied in the links and you will see just how un-civilized they still generally are.
Regards
DL