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[Boron]

Originally posted by Arryn:

Only practicioners of Islam have this reprehensible practice today. The rest of the world became, more or less, civilized and ceased such things as crusades, inquisitions (if we ignore the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security), and burnings-at-stakes. Despite all that you can say about Islam being a peaceful religion, a far larger percentage of its followers remain stuck in medieval barbarism than do the followers of any other religion. Please explain why this is so ...

yeah that's a really interesting question .
i heard from moderate muslims with which i discussed myself and from many other sources that mohammed is often misunderstood too but if you look close to the koran you find nothing which legitimates suicide attacks and killing of nonmuslims .

a source is poverty .
the islam is a 700-800 year younger religion than the catholic one .
so you could say history repeats sometimes .
now the islam exists for about 1200-1300 years .
the catholic belief existed 1200-1300 years exactly in 1200-1300 . in that time they made some of their biggest crimes : the inquisition and the crusades .

now expect the hardcore ira as you mentioned before i agree that fortunately there is no other religious group that is that dangerous .
expect some muslim fanatics .

but in both cases poverty is a main cause :
irish people were ( perhaps still are i am not very informed on that topic ) the poor and disadvantaged group in northern ireland .

same with the muslim fanatics .

poverty is one of the things demagogists exploit most . in most extremist e.g. muslim splinter Groups the leader is not much more than a demagogist like saddam or hitler who just abuses the popularity of church for his own claims .

if you can't combat poverty and especially discrimination of certain Groups unfortunately i know no solution against demagogists