[quote=TheMadAsshatter]
I don't want to come back to the "It's just Islam" argument[/quote]
Well you failed at that...
[quote=TheMadAsshatter] but I swear, if Islam were a bit more liberal/progressive in their views, none of this shit would be happening[/quote]
Uh huh... So lets just forget about Colonialism, Western Intervention and the Greed for Oil and strategic positions in the middle east. Yeah they dont matter.
[quote=TheMadAsshatter] 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[/quote]
Again, our western meddling ways have nothing to do with the insecurity issues the middle east has? Scroll back up a couple of posts to Brovos post or... I don't know, read a history book?
[quote=TheMadAsshatter]and if they didn't believe that they fundamentally had to kill people to get their way[/quote]
Wow... Just wow. Would you please give me some solid evidence that says Islam is a religion of war and that other religions like Christianity is not?
[quote=TheMadAsshatter]I don't have a problem with Islamic people in and of themselves[/quote]
Rly?
[quote=TheMadAsshatter]but when about 70 to 90 percent of the Middle Eastern population is comprised of Islamic extremists[/quote]
Wheres that statistic coming from? Fox news?
[quote=TheMadAsshatter]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. if you don't believe me, skip to about 2:20 and watch it from there[/quote]
How about you go to the deep south/hillbilly country/any rightwing/fundamentalist place and ask the people there how many Muslims/Gays/Atheists/Socialists deserve to die, most of them will raise their hand.

[quote=TheMadAsshatter]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.[/quote]
Thats like me saying Christianity is a stupid thing where people pray to a imaginary god in the sky. Christians are going to get pissed. Just saying.
 [quote=TheMadAsshatter]It is a hateful and dogmatic religion that has absolutely no place in modern society [/quote]
Neither does any other religion then.