I don't want to come back to the "It's just Islam" argument, but I swear, if Islam were a bit more liberal/progressive in their views, none of this shit would be happening. If I had to guess, I would say about 85% of the problems in the Middle East comes from the socio-religious schisms between the different branches, denominations, and levels of moderation in the whole of the Muslim/Islamic faiths, and if they didn't believe that they fundamentally had to kill people to get their way, this wouldn't be an issue at all.

I don't have a problem with Islamic people in and of themselves, but when about 70 to 90 percent of the Middle Eastern population is comprised of Islamic extremists (which they don't see for themselves), it's hard not to point fingers. I remember seeing this video of a sort of Islamic gathering where a speaker basically answered the question of extremism, and he asked the crowd how many people believed that certain people deserve death and practically everyone in the fucking room raised their hand. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV710c1dgpU]Here's the video[/url] if you don't believe me, skip to about 2:20 and watch it from there.

Let me make my perspective clear. I do not hate Islamic people. I hate Islam itself, not the people who practice it, because of exactly this. It is a hateful and dogmatic religion that has absolutely no place in modern society unless some MAJOR reform takes place within it. I honestly believe that until that happens, the Middle East is going to remain a bloody warzone.

Might have gone a bit off-topic there. Sorry about that.