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Rasterburn is an idiot. Just because a "court" decided something doesn't mean that moderate islam is automatically brutal and evil. That really was his only argument. A "court" ruled it so that proves that even their "moderates" are crazy scimitar-wielding, uncivilized brutes.

In this historical moment there are a lot of widely-documented human rights violations being committed by muslims. If you're completely ignorant you'll automatically deduce that these crimes were committed because Islam is an inherently evil religion, or somehow moreso evil than other religions. I guess this is possible, but really unlikely - it's not clear how Islamic canon is any more evil than Christian canon (have you ever read Deuteronomy? Holy fuck, there's even a passage that encourages taking women as prisoners of war and marrying them without their consent), suggesting that there should be an equal number of Christian terrorists as well. In science we're told that when you have the same stimulus, you should get the same response. So maybe there's something else that causes such a high number of Muslim terrorists (note that I'm not even sure that Muslim terrorists are in the majority, because as I mentioned before (and was completely ignored), the Tamil Tigers commit the most suicide bombings and aren't Muslim). Maybe Muslim-majority countries are just poorer than non-Muslim countries, or maybe Islam just has more "revolutionary appeal" than other religions (similar to how Marxism had revolutionary appeal for many anti-colonial nationalists in Africa, who identified as Marxists even though their beliefs weren't exactly Marxist (like the ANC in South Africa, or ZANU in Zimbabwe)). I guess a crazy conservative like Rasterturd would probably argue that Marxist thought also leads to terrorist activity based on these historical examples, but if you have half a brain, you'll know that this just isn't a cogent explanation and doesn't take into account all of the factors involved.

As I said before, while there may be a lot of terrorism committed by people who identify as Muslims, that doesn't mean that Islamic thought is an efficient condition for terrorism. Between 700-1200 AD the majority of discoveries in science, medicine and mathematics were made by Muslims, and the most egregious rights violations were committed by Christians. They were the civil ones back then. Why would it be any different now, if Islam is simply "inherently evil"? It's just not a sound explanation.