Darlin',
I'm not mad.....so smile sugar.
I've seen the bad side of another religion....So I really REALLY do believe that in the right hands, ANY belief system can be twisted. And has been. The Bible, the Constitution, that fine print at the bottom of an insurance premium. All can be twisted.
If everyone who was Muslim was 'in' on the justification, I would buy it. But it seems that a very high percentage of them aren't. THEY believe they have a religion. Really. They find joy, peace, self-discipline,etc.
Jeez, all the things that others find in their religion.
We either alienate them, and make the war bigger, or go after the bad seed while trying to cultivate a reformation in the 'good' guys.
Unfortunately hard to see where/who the good guys are. If you're not out on the street protesting beheading in your religeon's name, you're not the good guy. You're a silent supporter.
Islam was twisted at it's inception; not after the fact.
I've searched my tiny mind for another example of a religion who's first and porimary goal is world domination, with a select racial elite at the top, and everyone else relegated to slavery.
Buddhism? No.
Jainism? No.
Hinduism? Heck no.
Zoroastrianism? No.
Greek Orthodoxy? No.
Judaism? No.
Daoism? Certainly not.
Christianity? No.
Druidism? No.
Animism? No.
Totemism? No.
Wicca? No.
Thor, God of Thunder? Don't think so.
In fact, the only philospohies (for lack of a better term) that DO envision world domination under a racial elite and the reduction of the rest of the world to slave status are: Islam, Nazism, Japanese Militarism and Stalinist Communism.
In fact, the only other books (other than the Koran, that is)I could immediately think of that even comes close to describing such a system was Orwell's "1984" and Hitler's "Mein Kampf".
Gee, Islam looks more an more like a "religion of peace" the more I think about it (/sarc).