I come to ATS to reassure myself there's like minded people out there. I also like to read and take part in good debates, but sometimes this site just really makes me angry.

Anyone who think [insert name] group of people are all evil or all support violence, is blatently evil themselves and biggoted.

So what if the Qaran has some bad stuff in there. So does the bible and the Torah. Doesn't mean all Christians and Jews are evil.

The hypocrasy is that certain people here are claiming it's ooooooh so bad that Muslims want any kind of capital punishment, when America is one of only a handful of countries that still allows capital punishment for minors and intelllectually disabled people. They hold people with no charge for years on end, operate torture in black prison sites, illegal renditions.

Then UK and US go into various countries, guns blazing, murdering god knows how many (cause they don't count any more) innocent women and children, with majority support. And support Israel, another crazy religion/race (cause they can't seem to decide) country while they slaughter and steal from some more innocent folk.

And some people have the audacity to say majority of Muslims support violence?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

I'm sorry but it seems the death count shows that we, the Western world, have the majority that support violence!

Seriously, take a look in the mirror!

I'm an American Atheist. I steer away from All religions. In this country I've been persecuted in recent years for just being a godless Atheist (which apparently, if polls are to be believed, is right alongside rapists and child molesters and rates lower than Muslims). Christians have pretty much put me down. Not all of them, mind you, but many in high-ranking positions (relative of course, as in heads of companies I've worked for and supervisors, That sort of thing).

Yet I have to kind of defend Christianity when compared to Islam. At least Christians have more or less progressed over the centuries. When was the last time a Christian burned a witch at the stake? When was the last time a Muslim suicide-bombed? From what I've read of the Muslims--their beliefs, their OCD-like rituals, their base teachings--These guys are really Out of it. We're talking Stone Age Beliefs here, folks...

Let me put it to you another way. These guys pray half a dozen times a Day and perform ritual Cleansings just as many times. We're talking obsessive-compulsive behavior here Not just a bible-based belief system. Why do they do it? They're brainwashed into doing it. Part of the "reasoning" behind it, from what I've managed to read, has to do with what Muhammad teaches. In part, the Devil urinates in our ears when we're asleep and sleeps in our nostrils. So obviously That is the justification for the OCD bathing ceremonies. The prayer has to do with invisible Angels which sit on peoples' shoulders, and they must be praised to keep Satan away.
If they Didn't believe in these things, they wouldn't do them. They wouldn't be "fundamentalist" Muslims. But they all do it because they Believe It. They believe it through brainwashing. As a result I just don't think they're quite...what's the word I'm looking for? Yeah, SANE. The OCD stuff Rules their Lives, right down to having to pray in the Right direction, Sleep just this way and not that, and Never use their Left hand while eating and so on and so on. They are Slaves to this bone-headed Stone Age religion! More importantly, according to Islam law if you want to abandon the Muslim way of life, the only way out is TO DIE! Excuse me, but does anyone here know of any other religion with this Penalty?

Excuse me for my Ignorance, but I just Don't See This sort of thing happening across Other religions. I also don't see other religions preaching Kill All People who don't believe the way we do. Oh yeah some of that Is in the Christian Bible but it's glossed over for the most part. I think most Christians have just matured to the point where they know it's not to be taken literally and certainly aren't going to kill non-Christians because the bible says so (or so I hope!). It Isn't with Islam. If you want proof of this just look at all the suicide bombers and terrorists which Islam has produced. I just don't see that sort of thing, numbers-wise, with Christianity and other religions these days. Yeah, there are Jesus nuts out there and Dominionists but they are by far swamped by the number of Muslim ones. If we were to hold a terrorist convention (wow, where'd I come up with that one from?) 99% of the attendees would be wearing towels on their heads.

And I won't even Bother getting into how they degrade and treat their women, much less Atheists, queers, and anyone who Dares make a stick figure drawing of Muhammed or rips a Kuran! Or Islamic "Science" which is a laugh: the sun sets in a murky swamp, the gender of a baby is dermined by whether the male or female climaxes first, blood-letting is a cure, as is camel urine consumption! I'm Not making this crap up, oh how I wish I was, they actually believe this. Now people are going to come at me and say, "Well, much of this was said by Muhammed and Not written in the Kuran." From my understanding though, whatever Muhammed said Is the word of God and Is totally authoritative and true. So if you believe in the Kuran you believe in Muhammad. No Ifs, Ors, or Buts.

What we have here is a clash of cultures: The 21st Century vs. The Stone Age.
Pick a side. And don't give me this "We must respect other beliefs" crapola. What you're saying is we should Respect Ignorance and Intolerance. These people need to be Educated AND FAST and Islam needs to be stamped out before it kills us all.

Oh, and just to clear up another myth, America's Founding Fathers weren't all Christians. In fact the majority were Atheists or Agnostics. Basically they weren't faith-heads but free-thinkers.