re: #161 Charles

Islam has a history of inexorable violence against non-Muslims and the violence is not limited to backward places. When the ideology gains a majority of adherents in a country, or is not held back by rule of law, non-believers suffers. The fact that every apostate is not murdered or every non-Muslim is not persecuted is a matter of opportunity, not intent.

Islamic cultures have not yet figured out how to wrest control of civil society away from the preachers. Until a society takes away the power of a religious elite to impose the “will of god,” nothing will change from within the culture.