[agrace]

Which stands for the real Islam? The question is not just unanswerable, it is irrelevant. The real issue is not the essence of an abstraction--who can say what is the real Christianity or the real Judaism?--but the actions of actual Muslims in the world today.

No, it is completely answerable and totally relevant. The real issue is, what do the religious texts of the respective faiths teach? Therein you will find the "real Islam" and the "real Judaism" and the "real Christianity." The actions of adherents are what could be deemed irrelevant. Either professing Muslims, Christians or Jews follow the teachings of their faiths, or they do not. The texts should dictate their actions, not the other way around.

[stuartcr]

How can the actions of individuals be deemed irrelevant, when we are talking about individuals killing others? Texts do not kill people, it is the actual people, interpreting these texts, that kill.