"I think that Abu does need to acknowledge that Islamist extremists, do indeed interpret koranic texts to justify their, not infrequent, beheadings, but I do not know that it is really fair to then extrapolate that, to include muslims who do not have their life influenced by extremist thinking.
This is where people like calanen and I part ways, in that I regard Islam, as having many negatives, but I regard muslims, as just normal people, who are badly misrepresented due to the horrible extremism of the zealots who claim to champion Islam, and all muslimhood.
I think Abu would probably know the statistics, but the numbers of muslims, who have never condoned, or given succour in any way, to extremism, would undoubtedly be the massive majority, and that is going to be well over a billion people.
So to vilify over a billion people, because you don't like their religion, and unfairly extrapolate a link to terrorism, because of it, is pretty dogmatic, and not something that people of good conscience would want to do.
He can maintain his campaign to try and let people know of the aspects of Islam he finds distasteful, but it should never spill over into wholesale denigration of the muslim people, because it just is not a fair thing to do." (c) mozzaok
mozza, Nick Berg was just like you only younger