Interference in the Muslim countries has lead to its spread. Wars fix nothing and can give an advantage to ideology that we fight against. Sharia has spread in England. And the same in other places where Islam is the majority. Remember they dominate from within the freedoms the host country supplies.

Interference in the Muslim countries has lead to its spread. Wars fix nothing and can give an advantage to ideology that we fight against. Sharia has spread in England. And the same in other places where Islam is the majority. Remember they dominate from within the freedoms the host country supplies.

Half my family is from India, my Grandfather's side is Christian, and my Grandmother's side is Muslim, from what I understand, is that India was riddled with Religious conflict, until the British colonized it. The British were basically the only thing keeping the different religious groups from killing each other. Under this period many of the Muslims did secularize, which I can thankfully say is the case for a large part of my extended family. When the British left, and India divided, many of the factions regressed into their old ways, sadly. I say this, because I do know that Islam can be made to conform to the modern, and secular world.

The Issue:

Basically, when Islam started spreading from the middle east, the Islamic caliphates forcibly converted many Christians, Jews, and Pagans, and especially Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Hindus, the farther eastward they went. It is important to remember that Zoroastrianism was the Religion of the Persian Empire, and the Sassanid Empire (which covered relatively the same territory as the Persian Empire, but was formed in Late antiquity, as Greco-Roman influence decreased in the middle east, as the Roman Empire split) which expanded from Asia Minor (Modern day Turkey) to India.

Islam was spread by the sword, the way it historically expanded was through military insurgence, and it forced conversion on all the cultures it invaded, unless you were Christian, or Jewish, in which case if you didn't want to convert, you would get a second class status, and would have to pay extra taxes. Under the Ottomans, the first born male of the Greek Christians would be taken from the family, converted to Islam, and trained militarily to make up what was known as their Janissary force, which was an elite soldier in the Ottoman army. Though the Janissary practice isn't definitive of Islamic-run states generally, what is definitive, is that it can be justified by the belief, that non-Muslims under Islamic rule do not garner the same status as Muslims. In Islamic Spain, they expelled the Jews, because of such intolerance. This persists when you look at no-go zones across Europe, the local Jewish community is the first to be persecuted. There is evidence that in Sweden, there are currently Jewish communities that have to relocate, because of the danger that the proximate Muslim communities pose. That is not to mention that the ideology is easy to join, and deadly to depart from, and is culturally designed to expand through conversion, subversion and breeding, this sounds hyperbolic, but some of the more radical branches have admitted as much.

The greatest issue I see, is the left wing is either willfully blind, or naive (or both) about Islam as a religion. Islam functions as a Religion, a Legal System, a Political Ideology, and also has a Cultural aspect, which admittedly might be better attributed to Arabic Culture. It is definitely not helpful to label those who criticize Islam as racists, as Muslims are not a race, as a matter of fact, Islam is quite racially diverse. I'll start there, and am by no means an expert, but I am pretty aware of the dangers Islam poses to the west, which in my opinion is far more threatening than the far Left or Far right, because the imposition of a Canonical (for lack of a better word) Islamic society is more Totalitarian, and far more archaic.

My niece was in Afghanistan for medical humanitarian aid and secretly filmed (from their car) a man beating a totally covered woman with a big hard stick. It was right in the middle of an open market in Kabul and everyone around acted as if it was normal. My niece said it was the hardest thing not to intervene but they had been warned not to.

My husband was in Dubai in the 60s and a woman was stoned in the public square while he was there. He did not watch.

I have to say that this video it's not a verifiable and I'd suspect that it is probably a hoax.. That is, it's quite possible that the editing of the clip was such to suggest they were raising their hands to specific questions but in reality they were raising theirs to unrelated questions. The evidence to me that this is true is that when they ask who was Sunni and who were Shia, the whole room raised their hands both times. A Muslim would most likely be either one, not both.

I am not saying that I don't believe you about the stoning as I've seen evidence that such things happen but only on the veracity of the video. If it does turn out to be a hoax, I wonder the author's motivation. The Muslim people I've interacted with locally seem quite comfortable with non-assigned seating and most other society norms including being laissez faire regarding homosexuality. Perhaps it's less typical in other countries.