It's fair to make the point he did, Islam is not inherently predisposed to violence and extremism more than Christianity is, and just as the crusades, the Inquisitions, the bloody infighting Christianity saw in the 16th/17th centuries are now treated as stains on Christianity's history that we have long since moved on from, so Isis will probably be looked on in years to come. This paragraph pretty much summed it up for me written after the Paris attacks:
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This isn’t difficult to understand when you recognise that Islam isn’t a fixed entity whose nature is preprogrammed by its holy texts or early history. Whether you think Islam is inherently violent or benign, you can scour the Quran and the life of Muhammed and find evidence to support your view. But Islam, like any global religion with a long history, takes a thousand different forms in the many social and political contexts in which people call themselves Muslims. Nobody thinks Christians are forever doomed to carry out acts of genocide because the Old Testament is full of holy war. So why do we find it so hard to see that Muslims can be both Salafists and feminists, fundamentalists and reformists, Isis butchers and Kurdish freedom fighters?
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...h-9974645.html
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