[philosofy123]

Actually Christianity, and Jewdism also has so many statement in their books that can be considered barbaric. The difference is Christianity, and Jewdism has graduated from the stone-age religeon, and learned to ignor the savage/barbaric stuff. Islam is either unable or unwilling to graduate. The less people pay attention to the literal words of the religous books, the better they are. Now I am Christian, but I found most Christians and Jews not aware of the barbaric statement in their books. To give you a few: Exodus 21-20, Leviticus 15-19, Numbers 19-11 and 31-17, 2Samuel 5-13,1King 11-3, Thalmud Menahoth 43b-44 If Moslem people would have a leader that will teach exclusively tolorance and love like most Christian churches do, may be they will reform their barbaric religeon just like we did with ours.

[KirklandJunction]

Islam, having no formal hierarchy like the Vatican to Catholics, has more splinter groups than a woodpile.
Perhaps Islam will have something like Martin Luther's Reformation to retain the positive ethics and trash the doctrinaire bureaucracy?

[MaxwellWolf]

Old testament has been superseded by the New Testament and Christ's teaching can only be found in the latter. A simple question for you - how does the fact that these statements exist in the Old Testatment justify their existence in the Koran? Can the same justification be used by US to kill Muslim civilians since Muslims killed innocent civilians here?

[rebdov]

Let's take the test. You see a group of Jewish Yeshiva students walking down a dark street. Do you feel nervous and cross the street, walk around them, or walk through them? You see a group of Catholic Seminarians walking down the same street, same questions. You see a group of Islamic Madrassa students walking down the same street, same questions.

[eno_]

This is what it comes down to. But, as the article points out Wahabbist Imams are in 80% of U.S. Mosques. It's a bit like saying all Germans are not Nazis, but if you have evidence 80% are reading Mein Kampf, you got a problem.