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//my objection to some threads like this is that it tars an entire community and religion with one huge brush when that is not the case//
This is a tedious misrepresentation, Calico Girl, for which I excuse you only in as far as conflating criticism of Islam with an an attack on all Muslims is the socially approved and lazy way of preventing honest analysis of Islam as an ideology.
Nobody, repeat, NOBODY says: "All Muslims are..." blah blah blah.
Lots of us, however, say that Islam as an ideology shares the supremacism of the 20th century European fascisms, cast not on racial or class divisions, but on religious ones. Which is why so many of its stricter adherents see no harm, but even a pious duty in enslaving, or killing those who "cause mischief in the land" by rejecting the message of Allah and His Messenger (i.e. the equivalents of "inferior races" or "class enemies").
If you reflect on a core principle of Jesus' teaching -"forgive your enemy and bless those who persecute you" -you will notice an obvious discordance between that principle and how Christian nations have often behaved.
Now take a core principle from Islam: that "Muslims are harsh to unbelievers, but merciful among themselves". Or a further one that Muslims are enjoined to love those things that Allah loves, but to hate those things He hates.
Compare these two principles: the counter-intuitive Christian one, and the obviouysly tribal Islamic one. You can see how difficult it would be a for a bad Christian (if forced against a wall) to justify his behaviour in religious term (i.e. what Jesus said and did, and what the New Testament teaches), can't you? But how easily, comparatively, a bad Muslim could justify his behaviour in religious terms (i.e. what Mohammed said and did, and what the Koran teaches).