I'm actually glad you've started this thread, because I was going to start an all-round ISLAM thread, with that title, simply for your benefit, Pat.
Now, I'm not as foolish as you may think. I am not a massive fan of Islam, in the sense that it is, in comparison to all other main religions, an aggressive one, quite literally. The tone of Islam is quite, quite different to, for instance, Christianity, far more incisive, far less passive. It is a religion designed to go out there and get you. There's a reason they're called Islamic Fundamentalists - they follow the fundamentals of their religion, and take them at face value. And see what you get: burning buildings, dead people, oppression.
This is a fact. Pat is right in saying this, but as most of us has realised, he's also severely deluded if he thinks that this is how Islam works in the mundane, humdrum lives of Western Muslims. Of course, there will always be the few who do become 'enlisted' to the fundamentalist cause, but the vast majority are just humble folk, living out their lives as we would.
This is a fact. An out-and-out hatred of Islam ignores how it functions here, in our society, and as such can only be treated as bigoted idiocy.
And I've just made the only necessary post of this thread.
