Islam is an evil religion

1. ) "Now, I know that the five pillars are not morally wrong" I'm they're morally GOOD. My opponent is trying to discredit them by making them morally neutral, which they are not. 2. ) "Don't Look at Old Testament" I have a very simple question. "If the Old Testament was instantly thrown aside (the whole thing) when Jesus came around, the WHY IS IT STILL PART OF THE BIBLE? " Very simply, the Old Testament is still applicable in many cases. In fact, many people still argue gay rights, evolution and MANY other things based on the Old Testament. (In fact, the Catholics use Leviticus to say gays are evil) Basically, what my opponent is trying to say is: "oh, you can't look to parts of the bible that could hurt my position because Jesus fixed all that" " of course you can still look to the rest of the old testament, as well as the laws in Leviticus that we DO use, just not anything that helps you're position" The simple fact is, the Old Testament is STILL relevant. For example, where were the 10 commandments in the bible? The Old Testament. Because the Old Testament is still applicable to CHRISTIANS, because we ignore many of the laws from this part of the bible, and because Christianity is a morally ‘good' religion, it only follows that you MUST look to the parts of the Qu'ran that are actually followed, not all of the written parts. (I will come back to this argument later) 3. ) "NOT debating about Muslims, but about ISLAM. " In order to debate about Islam, we MUST look to Muslims. As with Christianity, there are laws that we do not follow written in our religious texts. We do not judge Christianity on the arguments I posted previously, because we no longer follow those laws. (We looked to modern Christians to see this. ) In order to know what the actual laws of a religion are, the only way is to look at the followers. (In this case, Muslims) 4. ) "The laws in the Qu'ran, however, are in fact followed by Muslims. " This is Empirically Untrue. Every religion has its extremist's but if you look to a majority of Muslims, you will see that many of these laws are becoming or are obsolete. For example, take Iraq. Iraq is a predominantly Muslim country, and yet, the number of attacks against the "infidel" are almost 0 now, they're becoming capitalist, and women are gaining more rights. Or, look to American Muslims. I am friends with a few, and have yet to be killed, shunned, or converted. .. and yet, they are followers, and are very devout in their practice. Even in Saudi Arabia: The incidence my opponent has provided may or may not have happened, due to the fact that he has no source, but, even if they are true, these are very limited incidence, that happened in the past. Even in Saudi Arabia, (which is openly trading with the infidels by the way) no longer follows many of these laws. People are allowed to change religious, and there is, for the most part, religious acceptance. (Extremists do occasionally cause problems) The simple fact that they are not at war with us, and are trading with us shows that these laws are no longer followed. 5. ) "The Bible was written during many millenniums. The Qu'ran was written by the followers of Muhammad. " First of all, technically, b/c there are parts from the OT, it is also thousands of years old. .. . But, it was also written by different people, and therefore has many different interpretations of what god wants. Before I go on, Group all of his points and apply: 6. ) "Shari'ah law. " First, I would like to point out that Muhammad is and has been very dead for some time now. .. The people upholding Shari'ah law are not divine or even godly. THEY ARE HUMAN, and therefore open to mis-understandings. Look to the crusades, Christians justified these with the bible, and yet, they were later looked at as wrong. Look to all of the anti-african American sentiment and mistreatment in the US's past. MANY very religious Christians believed that this was an acceptable thing to do, and was even good. Basically, Shari'ah law is no different from all of these other examples, and yet, my opponent tries to use this to "evilize" Islam, while ignoring the fact that Christianity does the same thing. Finally, Muslim outrage has nothing to do with anything, Even if all the followers were hypocritical, this would have no impact on the debate.