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Originally Posted by Pete.
Yes
It's reductive for someone to see how Islam is portrayed in the media and not recognise that extremists are a minority bunch of crazies who do not reflect the core virtues of Islam anyway? As Vicky said the IRA did not give Catholics a reputation of trigger happy bombers so why should normal muslims with IS and the like?
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Originally Posted by Dezzy
It's no more or less violent than any other religion. The Bible has plenty of passages that preach violence yet we don't demonise it since we know that people pick and choose parts of the Bible to pay attention to. Same goes for the Quran.
Terrorist organisations only use Islam as a method of control and recruitment. When it comes down to it, IS is as much as an islamic group as Britain First.
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This. Religions aren't violent, people are.