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Originally Posted by Bella
If anyone say that Islam is a peaceful religion, then I would have to argue that Christianity is just a peaceful!
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It is one thing for the religion to preach values of peace and tolerance and quite another for its followers to actually follow them.
So anyone can quote their scriptures to show this or that saying promoting values of peace and tolerance. But the acid test is how have the followers of the religion behaved over history and very important was that behaviour motivated by their religion.
So if you have bandits who destroy thousands of religious places, commit rapes by the hundreds of thousands, take slaves by the hundreds of thousands, massacre two million people and still get revered as heroes of the religion (Mahmood of Gazhani to quote just one example), I am sure you are not seriously expecting people to still believe that yours is a religion of peace and tolerance.
This particular guy is revered as But-Shikan (Statue slayer) par excellence by the Muslims. How would they feel if tomorrow you have a mosque-slayer par excellence in another religion and he is revered by the followers of that religion and they come back and tell you how peaceful and tolerant their religion is.