ok, how is this for a troll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/ahmadinejad-allies-charged-with-sorcery
now, tell me these fuckers arent nuts. these people RUN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY WITH 100 MILLION PEOPLE.
all i am asking is for people to wake the fuck up. but you can continue to sleep.
You know I do not even disagree with you on some level but I just do not necessarily think it has much to do with religion, just a lot of these Muslim countries are barely out of the wilderness, its like the middle ages in some of those countries; just look at how far some of these countries have come all thanks to wealth, technology, standard of living, education.
Just to me this whole thing is more of a socio-economic thing, does not matter what religion you are, if the circumstances are right the same things have happened at one time or another in every part of the globe, small or large scale, if your group is not big enough as well and you can not proclaim a full scale war what do you? Go into terrorism or guerrilla warfare; then maybe fall back on religion as an excuse.
A guest on the daily show the other night, can not remember who, saying how in 5 years Pakistan will become the fourth largest country in the world, with a sense of inferiority, terrible unemployment, poverty; when shit hits the fan, really how much is the religion to blame?
Personally though I am not that greatly interested in religion, I find more perspective in all the other factors, history fascinates me and its always interesting how religion changes and shapes with it; nothing more than a subjective convenience for humans who use it as it suits them on any given day depending on their circumstances.
You know a more interesting conversation would be whether certain cultures over time have more of a genetic disposition to violence, but I suspect in general a human is a human.