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"I don't know much about Islam but shouldn't we be going after the perverted version, the "evil" strain, rather than all of the religion?"

There is no separation of "perverted islam" from islam as a whole. They pray in the same mosques, they listen to the same clerics, they attend the same schools, they support charities that fund terrorism, they teach hatred of all that is not muslim, they will defend any muslim regardless of how many innocent people they have murdered, they all follow the same koran which tells them to conquer the world by forced submission and murder. Open your f'ing good eye to the facts about islam. It is not a religion but rather a cult of terrorists.

If what you say is true, why has this terrorist religion gone unnoticed until recent times? Why have governments throughout the world allowed them in to practice their hatred? Surely there would have been car bombs and be-headings years ago in the US and Europe! I can't see all Muslims as the Bin Laden, Zarcowi type... these are crazy hate filled people and not indicative of mainstream religion.

I still believe that it's not the actual religion that is the problem but how it is used by people. For example, in the Bible, Jesus talked about being a warrior and he even violently disrupted the money lenders in the temple... but does that give Christians a right to start blowing up financial buildings like the Twin Towers! No. This would be a very perverted strain of Christianity. Most religious texts are open to interpretation. Though I take your word that there is a reference "to conquer the world by forced submission and murder," it seems that this reference can be used in the wrong context.

Just as there are strains in Christianity that have perverted Christ's message, eg., the Victory Church with its emphasis on money, there is always the real possibility for abuse and misinterpretation in any religion. It seems that the insane fundamentalists have hijacked this religion. But that doesn't mean that there are no noble and time-honored truths or that people can't find a spiritual fulfillment that doesn't mean blowing up other people. Even though you are armNready lets not throw out the baby with the bath water.