My bad.

Must have been some anti-Islamic press from my clearly biased western media poisoning my mind.

Islam is a disease of the royalty and hence of the government. From the time mohammed wrote to kings to accept islam or die, it has been a disease of the government. Islam (like christianity of 1000 years ago) will always try to infect the government, that is why democracy is very bad for Islam majority countries because muslims will feel compelled to vote for Islamic parties that when they come to power will destroy democracy in the name of islam. And that is why most Islamic countries are undemocratic. Dictatorship is a partial cure for Islamic extremism. Infection of the royalty with Islam is the primary means by which islam spread to other countries. Since the progress of civilization has wiped out the kings (almost), the spread of Islam has halted to an extent. And this causes frustration among muslims who seek to spread Islam further using other methords like emigration.

Each and every one of your comments is fueled by that awful self-righteousness and self-delusion that fuel the rest of the world’s distaste for the US.

Who gave you the right to call your people American to the exclusion of Canadians, Mexicans and the whole of South America? And where have you been for the last eight years? Your sad country is run by fear and fearmongers, hypocrits who drag God into every debate, you all sustain a religious war and you dare to deny it. Your empire, Sir, such as it is, will not recover unless it goes back to its free powerful roots, and fast.

Indeed. That’s exactly the problem with fundamentalist Christianity, too. And fundamentalist Judaism. And, God (pick any one or more) help us, even one recently emerged brand of Hinduism.

Of course, as with anything else, the Quran is also interpreted to serve the interests of those who seek a justification.

The Bible is also full of brutality, of course, though most western countries have distanced themselves from these aspects.

The threat posed by radical Islam comes from the fact that fundamentalists insist that the Quran be applied literally as if its contents applied to our times in exactly the same way as to the times when it was written.

“Then banish them from your bed then scourge them with green sticks”
” For he hath given an advantage over them”

Nope. Quran very heavily forbids any physical violence on women, and warns Muslims that women have rights over men just as men have rights over them, in a Ying Yang style. The hormones these unevolved primates can’t control overrides any religious motivation unless it involves sex and violence.

Plus, the YEZIDIS stoned the Kurdish Girl to death a few days ago. Animals.