True. Every religion has bad apples.
However, it seems that there are way too much intolerance in islam now since there are way too many "bad apples" thugs who are excited day in and day out to carry out those violent actions.
I have no agenda to whatever religions you may know of. I am just offering my opinions as an outsider.
Well, if you cannot take my criticism, that is fine. I just hope you will not label me as anti-islam or islamophobia.
The true nature of islam, I do not know. I can only infer from the actions of the islam followers, the muslims. However, from the action of islam believers, I can say that they are way too much violent.
It may be due to the fact that (1) they have interpreted Quran Wrongly or (2) the nature of the religion is just that intolerant.
I would rather believe the true answer is the (1).
I would rather see the influential figures of islam all over the world stand out issuing their opinions on various of incidents happened in the past 30 years and reach certain consensus or directive what muslims should follow.
Muslim world need a leader and they need make their message loud and clear so as to remove any doubts or suspicion from outside world. The more ambiguous your leaders are, e.g. related to 9/11, invasion of Iraq, attack on Libya and etc, the more suspicion outsiders will have. You may end up with more and more anti-islam laws and activities.
In addition, you may look inside your religion and think hard, whether you are really mis-understood by outsiders or you have not tried harder enough to integrate into the local culture and local countries.
no; maybe you should just word your response differently. Every religious group has bad apples. Islam may have some adherents who are intolerant. Kind of like there are intolerant Jews, Christians, hindu, etc.
you seem fixated on Islam so im not sure if u have agenda or whether you are being genuine....not that it affects me at all