Muslims are more violent than followers of other large religions.

Natural Disasters as Divine Punishment I'm sure there are plenty of Muslims that believe natural disasters are divine intervention. However, people of most religious groups (especially in America) feel the same way. Hurricane Katrina has been said to be punishment for the homosexual rally New Orleans was planning, due to legislation of abortion, and even that it's just the start of America's "judgement". [1] [2] As well, a Jewish rabbi used The Talmud as proof that earthquakes, mainly ones along the east coast, are direct punishment for America's increasingly tolerant attitude towards homosexuality. [3] Pat Robertson also claims that the Haiti earthquake was due to a "pact with the devil" which Haitians made in order to be free of French oppression. [4] Scripture & Violence There is no doubt there are verses in The Qur'an that condone violence (even if it is with varying restrictions). However, there are many points in The Bible that seem to be very violent. "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." (Leviticus 21:9) "But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you." (Deuteronomy 22:13-21) "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 31:14-15) "That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." (2 Chronicles 15:13) "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. and thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God." (Deuteronomy 13) These last few verses state to kill anyone who worships a foreign god. Even, in fact, to raze an entire town. This means to kill everyone and everything within, including its cattle and spoils even, if just a few people have become non-believers. Extremist Groups Your dismissal of the JDL as a major terrorist organization seems very quick. They have been labelled by the FBI as the perpetrators of 15 out of the 18 terrorist acts attributed to Jewish groups between 1981 and 1985, as well as one of the most active terrorist groups of their time [5]. They were the prime suspects in the assassination of Alex Odeh [6], fired a machine gun into a mosque [7], and have been attributed as the ones behind many various arsons and bombings. There are also many Sikh-Based terrorist groups (mostly based around the Khalistan secessionist movement). The largest are the International Sikh Youth Federation and the Khalistan Liberation Front. There are, however, dozens of smaller, less organized groups. They have committed various individual attacks and murders, but by far the most prominent of these is the bombing of the Air India Flight 182, in which there were no survivors. To say that there are no equal examples of violence in other religions is misguided, as seen from examples of the only religion larger than Islam: Christianity. Even not factoring in wars and genocides in the past caused by Christian beliefs, there are plenty of contemporary accounts. The Orange Volunteers, an ideologically Protestant group in Northern Ireland mainly attacking Catholics, they have been blamed and/or claimed responsibility for numerous bombings. [8] There's also the Lord's Resistance Army, a fundamentalist Christian group well-known for the "Kony 2012" fiasco. [9] [10] As well, there have been huge numbers of crimes committed against various abortionists, abortion clinic employees, and the clinics themselves, mostly committed by Christian Extremists. Since 1977, these have included 41 bombings, 175 arsons, 100 attempted bombings or arsons, 656 bomb threats, 1478 incidents of vandalism, and 100 attacks with butyric acid. [11] A member of one such group is Michael Bray, who was convicted in 1985 of multiple conspiracies, as well as found to be related to multiple bombings of women's health clinics. In an interview by Richard Dawkins for his documentary "The Root of All Evil?", he is recorded stating that he "believes homosexuality and adultery, if proven in a court with the usual protections of law, should carry a death sentence." [12] Charity In The U.K. Muslims can in fact give charity to non-Muslims. While it is preferable to give to Muslims, charity of anyone who needs it (and will not use it for sin) is seen as a good deed. [13] We can see from these examples that Muslims, while not an exclusively pacifist religion are certainly not the only one, and definitely not the most violent. [1]http://thinkprogress.org... [2]http://mediamatters.org... [3]http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com... [4]http://www.cnn.com... [5]http://www.higginsctc.org... (Pg. 16) [6]https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com... [7]http://articles.baltimoresun.com... [8]https://en.wikipedia.org... [9]http://www.enoughproject.org... [10http://www.start.umd.edu... [11]http://www.prochoice.org... [12]https://en.wikipedia.org... [13]http://islamqa.info...