re: #77 Fuad Al’Razi

Yet the pre-eminent theme in Islamic theology is conquest. All non-believers are subject to three main consequences: convert, dhimmi, or death. Is this an loving and furry ideology. I have certainly left it for good, threw it in the trash, put the bags outside, and saw the trash truck take it away.

I agree that those themes are very prominent parts of Islam, but denying the possibility for muslims to reject all that while still calling themselves muslim is going to be very counterproductive in terms of fighting jihadism. One thing that seems to unite about believers of all faiths is that they can learn to ignore the parts of their scriptures that they aren’t comfortable with.