babark: Then hopefully you can understand what I'm talking about now: I did not give "Christianity" any special treatment in my statement, simply mentioned it along with 2-3 other religions. YOU are the one who latched on to Christianity for some reason.
I already answered this in a previous post.
As a side note, Christianity is seen by many Muslims as the main competitor to Islam, hence the "latching onto" makes sense to state a point. A restaurant owner in Aswan Egypt who solicited me about religion despite me telling him that I'm not interested the least bit said the following: "The Jews have book, It's ok book. Then Christians made book. It's newer and better book. But then Muslims have book, it's newest and best book, and last book, from God."
He literally said that, and I've had quite a few RL conversations that went pretty much the same way. I told him I only believe in what I see, and I see food. And want to eat that food (which I paid him for) in peace, and had no intention to ever convert to any religion and that the very suggestion offends me. He eventually got the idea and left me alone.
Of all the religious groups that have solicited *cough* I mean tried to save my sorry soul most in real life, here's the top 3:
1.) Islam
2.) Jehovah's Witnesses
3.) LDS Church (Latter Day Saints movement)
babark: Odd you did not start an argument with me about Hinduism, when THAT might be considered the odd one out.
I haven't seen any Hindus recently
massacre 2000 civilians in Nigeria or
burn 45 churches like the peaceful people in Niger just did, so Hinduism currently doesn't concern me much, sorry...
babark: When I said "I am not going into any specifics", I meant something like "This verse here says this, this verse here says this and in this scripture, this verse says this". Specifics of the religion. Saying that "[All these religions] can be interpreted as having just as many direct orders for violent acts" without specifically emphasising any one religion or scripture or verse, THAT is "not going into any specifics" and "Not starting a Islam vs _____" (see how stupid that looks?) discussion. You seem to be trying your damnedest to turn this into something like that, and I really don't care to.
Hopefully clearer now?
After trying to explain logical fallacy to you 3 times in a row in previous posts, I'm afraid there is no hope any time soon.
babark: See, the way you frame the entire discussion implies that Islam is wrong, and the wrongness is Islam, so why would a muslim agree with you, or even acknowledge the meaningfulness of your statement?
If my kuffar opinion isn't good enough, perhaps you can find it in your heart to listen to some fellow Muslims who of course aren't allowed or willing to imply that Islam is wrong in any way but are at least capable of seeing fault in their fellow believers. One must take note that having self-critical views like the following ones is nothing out of the ordinary for Westerners but having such critical views is seen as controversial or downright sensational on TV stations from Muslim countries. I found these interviews very interesting and these people do a much better job to de-demonize Muslims than you do, considering your way of discussing only reinforces negative stereotypes. Anyway, please do watch these videos as they are quite enlightening and could help you overcome false pride and perhaps even open your eyes towards progress. Take this as an arrogant underhanded method of pushing my evil confirmation bias on you via Trojan Horse method, or see it as constructive criticism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Xve4O4rF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XuPWvsbxfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36W7MKdE9Cw - she's wrong about Switzerland having the strongest defense army but other than that she has good points. Note the scary music...apparently making common sense is shockingly controversial in some parts of the world. For example, I was shocked to find out that Miss Lebanon publicly apologized to her fans for being on the same photo as Miss Israel. Seriously? Not even kindergarten is like that. Such things are really sad. Anyway, this Lebanese singer has common sense at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpGsvzhrp1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8coZIHX2mg0 In case you think people in the West generally dislike Muslims, the ones being interviewed in these videos would be seen in a very positive way by pretty much anyone here. It's unfortunate that many Westerners only get to see turds like Anjem Choudary on TV, who is a nasty and as radical an Islamist as you can get before turning into a hands on full blown (no pun intended) terrorist.
But sometimes even Islamists are right about things, here's an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pk2-vr4sSw He's inaccurate with his numbers though, the GDP of Spain is "only" as big as the top 3 Arab countries combined (Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt), not bigger than all 22 Arab countries, Spain's GDP is bigger than the combined GDP of ranks 4-22 of Arab countries though.