Patrick, take a moment to examine the world around you from outside of your owl fishbowl. Some terrible things have been done in the name of Islam (and in the name of everything else ever conceived) and yet there are still devout believers who stand against all that, and have to defend their religion against the terrorists and war criminals who shame them, and those like you who paint them all with the same brush because of them. Ask yourself- why do they do that?
It's because they believe that there is something worth defending in their faith. Please, please please, for a nonspecific deity's sake, try looking at it from an angle other than your own. Examine the beauty in it, what is good, rather than simply condemning it.
To view the world in black and white is as bad a philosophy as that which you see in that black.
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