Originally Posted by: LordathestringsCould a Muslim please explain to me how rioting, burning churches, and killing a nun serve to repudiate the claim that Islam fosters violence?
I think the quality of any group, be it a club, a government, or a religion, can be assessed by how that group deals with those who disagree with them. This twisted concept that makes it acceptable in the sight of Allah to kill anyone whose belief is not sufficiently 'pure' is the same insanity that prevailed during the "Reign of Terror" after the French Revolution. Then, as now, it had nothing to do with purity - it was an assertion of power under the threat of violence. The killer mullahs are simply modern Robespierres in turbans. And just as despicable.