Naomi - // In this instance, no I wouldn’t agree - as my previous post indicates. If that were true it would beg the question “Why does Islam produce an inordinate number of mentally ill people?” //
There is no evidence that it does.
The evidence that extremists who wilfully misinterpret their holy tome are prone to violence and terrorism infers that the evidenced psychopathy is linked to the faith itself, which it is clearly not, or it would not be producing the tiny minority of psychopaths compared with normal followers that it is.
//The fact that Muslims have not 'taken over' is ample proof of that argument. //
No, it isnt. //
You can argue that as a view, but you cannot state it as a fact.
//They do not need to 'infiltrate' anywhere, they have sheer weight of numbers to 'take over' any time they feel like it//
// There are more Christians in the world than Islamists. Add to that the billions from other cultures, from India and China for example, and you will find that Islam’s numbers do not carry weight at all. They are not equipped to wage physical war on the world. //
If even ten per cent of them rose up and declared Jihad, that would make a noticeable impact on the world as a whole.
Isis was formed over thirty years ago - and still no sign of the mass coming together to exterminate the infidel.
Facts do not lie - there is minority extremism, as there is in any faith, and that extremism is used as a peg for psychopaths to hang their abhorrent behaviour on.
It used to be the Nazis, now it's the Muslims, the world has to have a go-to 'bad guy' - always has, always will.