Reply #41: the problem is Islam [View All]

I'm sorry, I have trouble believing that stonings for adultery, executions for being the victim of rape, and female genital mutilation are not problems that come from the teachings of Islam. I suspect your counter-argument would be "well the people who use Islam are enforcing this," or something along those lines so let me pre-emptively strike that with this: the fact that these and other hideousnesses could be interpreted as appropriate based on the fundamental teachings of the religion shows a problem from the religion itself. When the Catholics preached that Jews had blood on their hands for the crime of deicide and the Jews were treated as second class citizens worthy of torture within Catholic Europe that made the problem Catholicism, not simply the problem with the Pope or Ferdinand and Isabella.