Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
Since you wanted to make a case that Islam is violent, let's put it in perspective with some facts.

In the current Mexican drug war, more than 60,00 have been killed, with more than 5,000 more missing. Most of this has happened in Mexico, but CNN reported that there were several related killings in Alabama, Texas, and Georgia. Pretty close to home.

Meanwhile, the absolute highest number that I could find was 11,267 deaths at the hands of Muslims extremists - worldwide for 2012. This was from the Blaze, so I figure that you might accept that. Every other report quotes MUCH lower numbers.

Religion (Islamic or other) doesn't seem to tip the scales to one over the other. The desire for more money and power seem to have a lot of influence on people's actions though.

As for the number of terrorist that commit attacks being predominately Muslim, the FBI says "not so". You might need to look out for Jewish terrorists more than Muslims.
Non-Muslims Carried Out More than 90% of All Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil | Washington's Blog


Now, to be perfectly clear, I am not stating that "Islam is a religion of peace". I don't want you to try to put words in my mouth.
The drug war in Mexico is rogue individuals with a clear purpose and they are unanimously alienated from society. The wolf in sheep's clothing is a lot more dangerous than the wolf with larger fangs. The "sheep's clothing" is what makes Islam, in my opinion, the greatest evil facing mankind today. I am against all of them and anyone who commits terrorist acts, but my criteria for assessing threat is a little different. To me, influence is a lot more dangerous than bullets. A politician is more dangerous than a tank, bomb or gun. The statistics you posted do not serve as a comfort for me or disprove anything. There's cases of Islamic terrorist trying to poison our water supply. They claim that they start forest fires. Almost every incident of Islamic terrorism is nameless and faceless with no regard for the target. The goal always seems to be to harm as many people as possible with no concern over who the people are.

This is why its significant to me how negative the Koran is to nonbelievers, in the eyes of extremist, this book has managed to "militarize" everyone outside of the religion. The criteria for being an enemy of Islam is that you do not believe in Islam.