The same questions are routinely asked about Buddhism, secularism, Christianity and other belief systems. Why not Islam as well?
Winston Churchill, in a less cowardly, fantasy-besotted and authoritarian time than ours, declared that “individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
Islam was “as dangerous in a man as [rabies] in a dog,” he added.
Could Churchill have been right?
Finally... the real conversation is starting...
15 years late, thanks to Dubya.