I agree that Islam is one of the biggest problems that western democracies face today. Anyone who doubts this doesn't understand Islam and knows little of the history of Islam. In every single country were Islam becomes the majority religion, persecution of non-muslims is rife. From the Islamic takeover of Spain over a thousand years ago to the recent ousting of the Shah in the 1970s in Iran, the pattern of subjugation, repression and religious intolerance is repeated over and over and over again. Nowhere in the world does Islam play nice with it's non-Islamic communities.
Islam likes to claim that it is the “religion of peace” but anyone who knows anything about Islamic scripture knows that this is simply a play on words. It does not mean what it purports to mean. In fact, it means the opposite. Interpreted honestly and correctly, most muslims are aware that it really means, “when all the world is Islamic, then there will be peace”. The absurdity of this deception is quite laughable since Islam not only cannot and does not play nice with its neighbours, it can't even play nice with itself. Witness the ongoing and seemingly never-ending schism between the Sunni and the Shia.
I agree with the late Christopher Hitchens when he stated, “All religions are equal glimpses of the same untruth. They all involve the surrender of reason, they all involve contempt for evidence.”. I suspect that Theland's objections to Islam has far more to the do with the fact that it isn't Christianity than it is to do with Islam's authoritarian, dictatorial and undemocratic form of governance.
However, I remain open minded on Theland's motives for posting this question despite my earlier statement at the top of this thread. If Islam could be disappeared tomorrow, I wonder what he would prefer; a secular, open society where Christianity could be openly mocked or even ridiculed (as we essentially have today in the UK) or whether he would prefer a society where such things were largely taboo?