Right, because Islam is the only religion with insane zealots who give the mainstream followers a bad name.
KKK members,
The "god hates fags" and "god hates soldiers" crowd,
Abortion Clinic Bombers,
Catholic Priests who touch little boys,
Slave holders who used the bible as justification,
etc.
etc.
Are they all islamic too? Or is it possible that there are insanely bigoted christians who have no good contribution to make to society too?
As someone who is not religious at all, I really get a kick out of it when people look at other religions as if they're somehow less valid than their own- as if out of the hundreds of organized religions in the world, they're the chosen few who have figured out the "real" one.
Do you know many muslims? I know quite a few, and every one of them is every bit as normal as the catholics, jews and protestants that I know. The terrorists that we're all rightly worried about are no more muslim than the groups I mentioned above are christian. As long as religion exists, there will be bad people who exploit it and twist it to justify their own personal hatred- the religion is just a convenient cover for a deeper problem.
