Muslims are more violent than followers of other large religions.

First Rebuttal - Charity in the U.K. The issue of charitable giving in the U.K. is ultimately irrelevant to this debate, but I will address it. Much of this so-called charitable giving is just a cover for financing Jihad worldwide and an anti-Western agenda. It is not permissable for them to give to non-Muslims and a legitimate target for their charity is financing Islamic military operations. They view natural disasters as punishment sent by Allah. This is an example of Westerners erroneously projecting their values onto Muslims. Second Rebuttal - The Peace Verses The Qu'ran isn't ordered chronologically but from the longest to shortest verse. The tolerant or peaceful sounding verses orginate from the Meecan period when Muhammad preached among the Pagans who controlled Meeca. He had very few followers, but once he took Medina and became increasingly militant, so to did the verses. The peaceful verses were abrogated and replaced with the violent verses. Sura 4:90 creeps up from time to time in debate as proof Muslims have no open-ended command to kill unbelievers but the Tafsir al-Jalalayn makes clear that this refers only to unbelievers who submit to Islamic rule. Sura 5:32 was often quoted by George W. Bush and others like Barack Obama to show Islam is a peaceful religion, but this is a complete falsehood. It comes in the context of a warning to Jews and not a universal principle, with an exception being the spreading of mischief in the land. 5:33 - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter." I have examples of this crucifixation occuring in the present. Sura 5:45 is just a bizarre choice and doesn't speak to the fictional peace you ascribe to. Sura 5:51 says Muslims aren't to take Jews or Christians for friends - O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people." 52-60 continues with the excoriation of the "people of the book." I will present my Qu'ranic examples in another round to further refute these examples. Third Rebuttal - 'Something' Brushing aside the absurd linguistic argument about Islam and Salaam, you make attempt to equivocate saying all religions have extremist factions and you're forgetting the purpose of the debate. Islam has a complete theological doctrine for fighting, killing and subjecating non-believers. You 'other' examples are fairly weak: the Mountain Meadows Massacre was in 1857, a Mormon militia massacred settlers moving from Arkansas to California during a time of war hysteria and they most likely massacred them to conceal the fact they attacked them disguised as native Americans and were fearful of their identity being discovered; the Spanish Inquistion can be viewed in light the Muslim invasion and conquest in 711, and their occupation lasted 700 years being gradually pushed back by Reconquista and Islamists kill more people every year than all 350 years of the Inquistion; the Jewish Defense League to me is another poor example - it boasts 13,000 members but even groups that list JDL say it only has a few dozen, the group is dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism and it says they unequivocally condemn terrorism with a strict zero-tolerance against terrorism. Forth Rebuttal - Defense? Sura 2:190-191 is said to be proof of defensive warfare only, but this verse was abrogated by Sura 9:1, which voids every treaty between Muslims and non-Muslims. So what is defensive action? Well, Sura 2:193 says, ""And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah." Ibn Ishaq explained must fight against unbelievers and thus unbelief is aggression to the Muslims. The issue here is clear: are Muslims more violent than the followers of other major religions. Here is empirical evidence - real world examples - demonstrating this contention and there is a complete lack of such evidence from other major religions. Islam has the lion's share of the market when it comes to terrorism and violence. Here is what we see from Islamic media: On Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) - September 7, 2012 - A top Palestinian Islamic cleric, Sheik Muhammad Zaghmout, head of the Palestinian Islamic Council in Lebanon, calls upon all Muslims to unite in Jihad. He invoked the words of Allah to strike fear into the hearts of unbelievers with rockets, guns, and Jihad.[1] On Al-Rahma TV (Egypt) - May 4, 2012 - A child preacher calls for Jihad and quotes the Qu'ran saying Jerusalem is held by the "brothers of apes and pigs."[2] On Al-Aqsa TV (Gaza) - August 10, 2012 - a Hamas official, Ahmad Bahr, preaches for the annihilation of Jews and Americans.[3] On Al-Aqsa TV (Gaza) - July 27, 2012 - Egyptian cleric Hashem Islam Ali Islam, Al-Azhar's Fatwa Committee, says suicide bombings are a religious duty.[4] On LTB TV (Egypt) - October 16, 2011 - Muhammad Abd Al-Rahman, son of the Blind Sheik serving a life sentence in the US, expressed admiration for Osama Bin Laden and said, "He was more moral than all of us."[5] On the Internet - July 12, 2013 - at a pro-Morsi demonstration outside Al-Aqsa mosque, islamist Imam Ismat Al-Hammouri screaming "allahu-akbar" says "may America, Britain, and France" be destroyed and "may Rome be conquered." He also tells Obama that "the Caliphate will return."[6] On Amjad TV (Egypt) - May 24 and 31, 2013 - Egyptian cleric Muhammad Al-Zughbi called for the destruction of the Jews and shiites in a Friday sermon.[7] On Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar), Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - May 8-11, 2013 - a leading sunni scholar Al-Qaradhawi in a visit to Gaza called for Jihad and prayed to Allah that he may become a martyr.[8] On Al-Hafez TV (Saudi Arabia/Egypt) - May 3, 2013 - an Egyptian cleric, Sami Abu Al-'Ala, called on Allah to annihilate all the Jews and make them widows and orphans.[9] On Al-Tahrir TV (Egypt) - April 16, 2013 - an Egyptian salafi cleric, Murgan Salem, said the Boston Bombing was meant to deliver a message and that similar attacks would be carried out in France.[10] On the Internet - August 3, 2013 - a leader in Toronto's Al-Quds Day rally said, "We should give Israelis two minutes to leave Palestine and then start shooting."[11] On Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - June 21, 2013 - the founder of Hizb Al-Tahrir in Chicago declared, "The Caliphate is coming, and Britain and America can go to hell."[12] On Hannibal TV (Tunisia) - December 2, 2012 - a Tunisian salafi cleric Khamis Mejri rejects democracy and praises Osama Bin Laden.[13] On The Internet - April 29, 2013 - an Australian islamist Musa Cerantonio declares, "the Pentagon is a legitimate target" and "the blood of Muslims is more dear than that of Western victims."[14] On Press TV (Iran) - April 11, 2013 - a British islamist, Anjem Choudary, said "As Muslims we reject human rights."[15] On Al-Quds TV (Lebanon) - April 18, 2013 - Tareq Hawwas, of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, in a vicious anti-Semitic diatribe said, "If only Hitler had Finished them (Jews) off."[16] On Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - January 21, 2013 - the Islamic Universities Association Sec.-General, Ja'far Abd Al-Salam, extolled martyrdom as "the most lofty form of Jihad."[17] On Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - December 2, 2012 - Umm Osama, the wife of Hamas MP Khalil Al-Hayya, said, "A Woman's Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children."[18] On the Internet - December 24, 2012 - Ismail Al-Wahwah, spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia declared, "We will establish the Caliphate," "instate the Shari'a," and "make Arabic the official language."[19] On Al-Risala TV (Kuwait) - March 16, 2012 - Dr. Saud Al-Fanisan, Former Dean of Islamic Law at a Saudi University, said "Islamic law permits the possession of slaves."[20] On Libya Al-Hurra TV (Libya) - September 14, 2012 - a Benghazi Friday sermon preacher, in wake of killing of the US Ambassador, calls on Muslims to "detonate our wrath upon them" and "stab them in their main artery(the Economy)."[21] This is merely a sample of the proponderance of hate and violence that permeate throughout the Islamic World. 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