Debate: Is Islam peaceful?
Side: No

Have you ever even gone to the middle east? You obviously have't. Since it is nothing of what you speak off. In sanscrit the word Islam means "Submit" ? What have we to do with sanscrit again? Go back to Arabic, the original language of Islam, where it means Peace.Considered to be the oldest language in human history, Sanskrit is the progenitor and inspiration for virtually every language spoken in India.http://www.americansanskrit.comOldest language in human history. You are wrong. Arabic altered the translation whether intentionally or by accident. am a Muslim, and guess what? I've never murdered, raped nor have I tortured any of my non Muslim friends. I have all my natural rights, and I've never been brutally forced into anything.I never said that ALL muslims murder, rape, ect. Though under quite a few circumstances outlined in your holy book you technically are alowed to. The reason you dont do these things is because im assuming you live in a 1st world country like America or the UK, ect that has effectively neutered religions that promote such barbaric things through means of a secular government and social morals. In christianiity for example it is not equated with murder and genocide because it has been tamed. The places where it exists today do not allow it to be practiced the way it was say 2000 years ago. So, the majority of christians are not crazy religious literalist psychopaths carrying out the commands of god such as killing people who work on sundays. There is a minority that does. For instance the WBC. But this is a VERY small minority.With Islam, it's entirely backwards. The crazy religious literalist psychopath population of it is the VAST MAJORITY, residing in places like Iran and Afghanistan. Places, that not only allow rape and murder, but ENCOURAGE it through state law because they have theocracys.What im saying is, YOU and the rest of the muslims living in the 21st century have been neutered or unexposed to the mindset that is present in places like Iran, and therfore are the peacefull minority that was able to adapt, wheras the MAJORITY of muslims live in the bronze age, raping, murdering, jihading, mistreating women, and so on and so forth.You obviously know nothing about Islam nor about Muslims, seems you were to busy blindly following whatever the social media wishes you to see. Last but not least, I am a Muslim and I am peaceful.And YOU are blind to what you dont WANT to see. You dont WANT to see how insane your religion is when "let off the chain" so to speak. The havoc it reaks. The pain and death it brings with it wherever it goes. This is undenyable FACT. Islam is not peacefull by and stretch of the imagination. Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or LYING.You can call something whatever you want to but that doesnt change what it really is. If you call a turd a diamond does that make it a diamond? No. It's still shit. If you call genocide, a peacefull practice, does that make it peacefull? No! This "religion of peace" illusion is just a label. It's what muslims throw at people who call them out as some kind of scapegoat that never works. You may not be evil, but your religion is. If you give it its balls back you can see how twisted and delusional it is. Have you even read your "holy book"? http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/ cruelty/long.html Dont get me wrong, Christianity is no better. if you go back a couple hundred years it looks pretty much the same as islam. Basically all abrahamic religions are fundamentally evil. Used as tools for power, control, and money, feeding off the weak minds of people. Theyre all wrong. Theyre all stupid. They all belong in the trash