Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
What temper is that? I have a irritation with ignorance as saying "the horrors" of their holy book, when its no more violent or full of horrors than the Bible! lets face it, Christians have done any number of vile things following that!

The vast majority of Muslims don't go round committing violent acts or even supporting those that do. Still if you blind to that fact then your blind I guess.

What it all boils down to is a person's interpretation of whats written down and as with the bible that interpretation can vary almost infinitely. on a point of fact non-violent Muslims do frequently condemn the atrocities committed in the name of Islam. But as with so called Christian countries, religion gets mixed up with political issues, what is said and done in the name of a god very rarely bears any relation to what is actually written in the book.
The problem with the 'most Muslims aren't terrorists' argument is that whilst that may be true, the inverse - most terrorists are Muslims - IS true, an assertion easily proved by digging out the list of folk convicted under terrorism acts over, lets say, the last 20 years. It would appear that, across the channel, Monsieur Macron has had enough and has started calling it for what it is, a concerted attempt to impose a minority's belief system on an emasculated majority. Its ironic to me that Brexit was decided by a significant minority using it as a protest vote against immigration (partly European but also Muslim) yet the EU's new poster boy and self appointed emerging leader now appears to be pushing EU towards a stronger 'restricted immigration/preservation of local belief systems' direction of travel in any case