executed. If you leave Islam an become an Atheist or join another religion, you get executed. In Islam, if you're a witch, you get executed. Witch hunting may have been over in England hundreds of years ago, but not in other parts of the world, like Saudi Arabia. (Yes, in the 21st century, there are Muslims, even in the West, who genuinely believe in magic ). It's a monotheism, so it's a particularly evil type of religion. It is based upon the self-flattering and immodest claim of a group of flea-bitten desert dwellers that, of all people, God would chose them to carry out his mission. There's no point in talking about it's positive impact in years past (I'm a Classicist, so I should know - many Classical texts survived through the work of Arab scholars). Today, in the here-and-now, it is the cause of pain, discrimination, deaths, hate and intolerance. Remember, religion of peace, how you killed the US Ambassador in Benghazi because of a film you didn't like? When a religion does such things, it is a complete farce to attempt a rescue by pointing out its 'good bits'. Islam - like Christianity, Judaism, etc - is subversive, exclusivist, and evil. ( Originally Posted by mb9236 ) It's a monotheism, so it's a particularly evil type of religion. It is based upon the self-flattering and immodest claim of a group of flea-bitten desert dwellers that, of all people, God would chose them to carry out his mission. There's