Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
Your opinion on the first scripture does not take into account history, and you cannot correctly apply your modern day thinking to life 1500 years ago. You are fully entitled to have your own opinion, and you do not have to agree with history and reality, and that appears to be the route that you have chosen to take.

In response to your current question: Yes, radical extremists, by definition, go to the outer fringes in their beliefs, and the majority of Muslims are not radical extremists. EVERY set of beliefs (religious and non-religious) has people that are on the extreme fringes.
Sounds like your "reality" is a place where you can make up the rules as you go. Why cant i apply modern thinking to history? Sounds like you're guilty of confusing your own opinions with facts.

How can you say that the extremist are going to the outer fringes of their beliefs? they are the ones following the letter of the law. Beheading and disfigurement is not the "outer fringe", it's Islam. It's part of the religion. It's part of the book.

The natural evolution of things is that with time we have evolved and become more intelligent. With our new found intelligence, we are more civilized. The culmination of that is that most intelligent people learn to put aside religion all together, but to those few who are clinging to it, you cant just rewrite the book and erase the parts of you dont like. I'm aware that 100% of muslims are not evil people and that a portion of them, like christians, follow the moral code laid out and ignore the "fire and brimstone". Islam the religion itself is one of the greatest evils plaguing mankind today. That doesnt mean that every muslim who has fallen victim to it is evil.

Also, who are you to say that the values of islam have changed since acient history?? You say beheading, disfigurement and all of these other war tactics are acient history.....

correct me if im wrong.... isnt there a civil war taking place right now? it is 2013 right?